1 . When Danay Ferguson first competed against men in golf (高尔夫球运动), she was not confident. And the male golfers did not want to golf with her and not take her seriously. Then, she _________ her first game. After that, she had all the confidence to keep playing and _________ the men.

Danay is the only _________ professional golfer in Senegal. She was _________ to golf by her cousin and immediately fell in love with it. Luckily, she got a chance to _________ in Morocco. With the financial _________ from her French golf partners, she spent three months training. After returning to her hometown, she set off again for Morocco and even got a _________ there, teaching children at a local golfing school. She stayed seven years because she enjoyed the _________ there.

Today her home is filled with many golf _________ . She has won so many that she doesn’t know the exact __________ . What she has done is __________ because Senegal is a conservative (保守的) Muslim nation. There is much __________ from society for women to take part in professional sports. The culture has traditional ideas of what women should do. A woman who chooses sports __________ duties at home risks being __________ by her family. At first, her family wasn’t supportive. But after seeing her __________ for the sport, they changed their minds.

In 2018, when Danay returned to Senegal, she was not __________ about the situation of golf there. She wanted to __________ a golf school. In 2020, she was funded to set up a golf school in order to __________ for the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics. It’ll be her job to train Senegal’s first __________ golf team, including preparing female golfers. She hopes to continue to __________ internationally and bring the next generation of Senegalese female golfers into the world.

2 . Louis Tewanima seemed born to run. Like other Hopi people in the late 19th century, Louis ran for his mental and ________ well-being.

In 1907, Louis ________ himself riding on one of the locomotives (火车头) that had amazed him as a boy. With no ________ of the English language, he headed east to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania to learn English.

The ________ in Pennsylvania was much colder. He missed his family and his way of life. He turned to something ________, running. He’d seen the school’s track team practice, so he approached the coach, Warner, and ________ if he could run for him.

After watching Louis run, Warner ________ realized Louis had talent. Warner coached him on applying his stamina (耐力) and ________ to track and field. It wasn’t long before medals, and ________ filled Louis’s room at the Carlisle school, and he became a celebrity in distance ________ in America. Even when he ________ difficulties, Louis prevailed (战胜). He once missed his train to a ________ in Harrisburg. Instead of calling it a loss, he ran 18 miles to the event, arriving on time. He ________ to compete in the two-mile race, and he ________ first!

In 1908, Louis entered his first Olympic, and placed ninth in the marathon. Four years later, he ________ in the 1912 Summer Olympic in Stockholm, Sweden. This time, he ran the 10,000-metre race and finished in second place.

3 . One day, I was on my way to work. Suddenly, a truck knocked me down and completely crushed my ____ . It wasn’t the driver’s ____ . There was something that ____ his vision. People around ____ me to the hospital quickly. Even though it happened around 9: 30 am, I was only operated on at 5: 30 pm. The doctors ____ to save my leg. But after a few days it got ____ and it had to be amputated (截肢). When the doctor told me, I tearfully asked him, “Why did you take so long?”

What ____ me through this disaster was acceptance — that this is my fate. And now I can either ____ to cry about it, or take it positively. I chose the ____ . So when people used to come to visit me in the hospital and get ____ , I would tell them jokes to make them laugh!

Afterwards I took the treatment, and began to learn how to ____ all over again. My fear was that I wouldn’t be able to play ____ which had been my passion since childhood. However, even though it was ____ for me to walk, I could still play badminton. I began winning some marches. After ____ the suggestion of one of my friends, I decided to ____ a national level. Although I worked as a software engineer, I still ____ five hours a day. And I went on to win several ____ at the national competitions. ____ , I almost completed my training in scuba diving. And I also ____ all over India.

When people ask me, “How do you do so much?” I just ____ with a question, “What’s stopping you?”

5 . When my sister Diane began playing the violin, she was seven. How did she sound? Terrible. But she didn’t ____. At twelve, she asked our parents if she could ____ a full­time music school.They said no. Actually, everyone agreed that my sister ____ talent.

I was better at my ____. My teacher had told my parents that I had great ____. So my parents found the best piano teacher in the area to ____ me. But the only time he was ____ was Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m.. Back then, I was ____ about the British TV show The Avengers, which was ____ every Saturday at 3 p.m.. I let nothing take up my The Avengers hour. So I ____ this amazing opportunity.Today, I don’t even have a ____ in my house.

My sister became an engineer, but she ____ stopped making music. When she was in her 40s, she switched her ____. She went back to college, got a(n) ____ in music education, and became a music teacher. She started kids off on their first instrument and gave them all the encouragement and support she never ____.

Recently, she and a pianist pal (朋友) put on a recital. A big crowd of friends and family ____ for her. As she played, I looked around at the ____. Everyone was ____ enjoying the music. It occurred to me that I was the only person that remembered that a 7 ­year-­old kid making those perfectly ____sounds and knew how far she had come, despite ____.

Talent is important. But enthusiasm is even more important.

When I was in the third grade, my teacher told us to write a report on our dream. I poured my whole heart into my report,     1    (drive) by a dream to be an airline pilot.    2    my paper came back with an “F” on it. The teacher said that it was a “fairy tale”,     3     made me crushed and disappointed.

Too many people said,” Girls can’t become pilots; never have, never will.”     4    (final), I gave up.

In my senior year of high school, my English teacher, Ms Dorothy, one day gave the class     5    same task. I     6    (think) about the report I had written before. Pilot? No way. Waitress? That felt safe, so I wrote it down.

Two days later, the teacher handed back the task, saying sincerely, “If you don’t go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want!” I felt very     7    (delight) as well as a little scared. I stayed after the class and went up to my teacher. I told her my dream    8     becoming a pilot. “Then do it” she said.

So I did. It took me 10 years of hard work    9    (achieve) my ambition. Now I’m one of the Boeing 737    10    (captain) for the United Airelines. I prove to all that it is not a fairy tale.

10 . With his leg lame and his teeth uneven, the boy thought of himself as the most unfortunate child in the world. He ______ played with his classmates, and when he was asked to answer questions, he always ______his head without a word.

One spring, his father brought home some saplings (树苗). ______of his children would plant a sapling and he promised, “Whoever ______his sapling best shall get a gift.” The boy certainly wanted to get the gift. ______seeing his brothers and sisters watering the trees, he ______an idea: he hoped the tree he planted would die soon. So watering it once or twice, he never______it.

Several days later, he was ______ to find it not only didn’t die, but also grew so many fresh ______. Compared with those of his brothers and sisters,his appeared greener. His father kept his______, bought the boy a gift and said he would become an outstanding______after growing up.

From then on, the boy slowly became ______and confident. One evening, he suddenly ______his biology teacher once said that plants ______grow at night. Why not go to see the tree?

When he came to the courtyard,he found his father working near the tree! Immediately he ______: Father had been secretly ______his tree! He returned to his room, tears in his eyes.

Decades passed. The boy didn’t become a botanist. ______, he became the U. S. ______. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

______is the best nourishment(滋养品)of life. ______it is just a bucket of water, it can make the tree of life grow well!