2 . Very often, it seems that the athletes we watch on TV effortlessly win the game. However, it’s _______to remember that things don’t always go their way. At one time or another, everyone has a bad game or becomes _______. Here two top athletes tell us about a time when they had to _______back and what they _______from the experience.

Maya Moore was a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team that won gold at the Olympics in 2012.” My team was playing at the national championships when I was 13. I could not hit a _______during the whole game. We _______and I felt like I let my team down. I was extremely _______. My mom helped me see that my _______does not define who I am. She helped me realize that it is how I respond to difficult times that _______. I learned to bounce back from ________times in life.”

Swimmer Natalie Coughlin has ever won 12 Olympic gold medals.” By the time I was 16, I had already ________for years to qualify(具有资格)for the Olympic team. ________, I tore a muscle in my shoulder, which meant I had to temporarily ________my goal. It made me hardly wish to ________because swimming was my whole world.The injury ________me to seek things outside of swimming, like friendships and hobbies. It helped me realize that swimming was not life and death.”

3 . One spring evening, I was extremely tired after a long day of school. I wished for ________ but I had to drag my heavy feet to the violin studio.

I was playing Moldau to Kate, my teacher. I simply couldn’t play with________, though. While I followed all the________ on the sheet music(乐谱), I still________ to make music describing spring with lively flowers sound like flowers dying bitter deaths. Kate________ attentively and then frowned (皱眉), asking me what the piece’s mood was. I stared at her, ________.

Pulling out paper and a pencil, she asked, “Can you________ an image of what you think a typical day in the forest during spring would look like?” Hesitantly, I started to let my ________ fly. Soon a scenic forest full of life was________ in my mind.

Minutes later, I completed my drawing. “Now, play the piece again with this ________ imagery (意) in your mind, ”Kate said. I closed my eyes and began to play, with exceptional expression I had never done before.

As I________ the piece, there followed a short silence before Kate said, “That’s the best playing I’ve ever heard from you. ”Her eyes were________. “Who knew painting out the scenery would help you better interpret the________? Sometimes all we need is to use our creativity and try different methods when facing difficulties. ”

The________ violin lesson taught me more than just music. I also learned a valuable________ skill, which I applied to my daily life.

6 . It was a cold, rainy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she ______ that I come to see something at the top of the mountain.

So here I was, ______ making the two-hour journey through thick fog. Nothing could be worth this, I thought as I ______ along the dangerous highway.

Turning down a narrow track, we ______ and got out. We walked along a path that was thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens (常青树) ______ over us. Gradually, the peace and silence of the place began to ______ my mind.

Then we turned a corner and stopped at the top of the mountain and I was entirely held in ______. There across fields and valleys were rivers of fully-opened yellow flowers from the light one to the most brilliant. It looked as though the sun had tipped over and ______ the mountainside in gold.

______ occurred to my mind. Who created such beauty? How? When? As we approached the house that stood in the center of the property, we saw a sign that ______: “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking.” The first answer was: “One Woman-Two Hands, Two Feet and Very Little Brain.” The second was:“______ at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”

As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen that I could ______ speak. “She changed the world,” I finally said, “one small plant at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the ______ of an idea, but she kept at it.”

The wonder of it would not let me go. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a dream and ______ it, just a little bit every day, what might I have accomplished?” Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said, “______ yet, start today.”

7 . I argued with my sixteen-year-old son Anthony again. I rushed out of the house with_______.Shaking my head in disappointment and seeking (寻求) _______, I walked toward Clara, my elderly neighbor. I told her it was for his _______this time. Anthony and I were always _______about his clothes, his messy room, or his loud music.

Clara _______and said, “It’s only a small thing.” Then the smile disappeared from her face, and she became _______. During her hard life, she had _______to say, “But It’s only something, and tomorrow will be _______. Everybody has enough heartaches and _______in their lives, so we shouldn’t waste time and energy on the “it’s only things” that come their way.” she continued.

I walked back with Clara’s words going around in my head and ________in my heart. I prepared a piece of cake, Anthony’s favorite ________.He stared at the plate eagerly, but there was still a hit of ________in his eyes.   He looked at me and ________asked why I had no one word about his hair.

I said it was only hair. He ________a smile as he took the cake and said that was what he had been trying to tell me. Now I realize that he actually didn’t want to fight with me but just wanted me to hear the ________he was making.

8 . A boy aged 11 who let his hair grow to almost a foot and a half long, finally got a haircut after more than three years.

The kid, Kilian, is not sporting a new hairstyle to improve his _________，but to help children in their _________with cancer. “He didn’t expect anything _________. He was about to do something __________ ,” his mother said.

Despite the misunderstandings from others and the _________hair braiding (编织) that almost made him give up, Kilian was willing to help strangers. After _________it cost a lot to make a wig (假发), he was _________ to do more than provide the hair. He started to _________ money and ended up raising $2,125.

Before leaving the salon , Kilian received a call from Jeffrey, the founder of Wigs for Kids, who heard about his _________. “I know a little girl, who _________to be right in our neighborhood, could wear that hair. Kilian, you _________have a heart of gold!” Jeffrey _________to set up a meeting between Kilian and the girl who would receive the wig from his _________hair. And he also_________the touching story on Facebook, hoping Kilian’s _________in the last three years will inspire others to act.

10 . When one door closes for Li Mei, another one opens.

Born with serious _________, Li has found a way to communicate with the world through painting. “Paint brushes can help me create a colorful world, showing my thoughts on paper instead of through my _________,” Li writes.

Before learning to paint in primary school, Li always felt _________ in a silent world. She knew she was _________ because she could not hear. _________, a painting class finally opened a door for creativity and expression for her.

Painting not only helped Li _________ her unhappy childhood, but has also become her career (事业). Moreover, it led Li to eventually meet her husband Hu Shiqun. Having also lost his hearing when he was one year old, Hu is also a(n) _________ lover.

In 2016, Li _________ her husband’s company, which specializes in (专攻) 3D wall and ground paintings. All the five _________ there are hearing-disabled. “I know how __________ it is for hearing-disabled people to find a job. So I want to help those who are interested in painting to __________ their dreams,” Hu says.

In many parks and tourist attractions in Hunan province, the couple have created lots of murals (壁画) and pavement paintings. For Li, their creations can make art more accessible (可到达的，可接近的) to __________ and, behind each design, there is someone, who is hungry to __________ the world.

“My husband and I want to introduce painting to more people like us and help them find their own way to __________”, Li writes, “I hope that more hearing-impaired people can be __________ by our story.”