4 . I never thought I would be a “runner”. I was the girl who_______slowest in the PE class. A few years ago, I was walking with a group of_______in the Race for the Cure, a 5km race designed to_______money for the fight against breast cancer (癌), _______one lady caught my_______.

She was one of the weakest-looking women I’ve ever seen. She must have been close to seventy years old, _______a T-shirt with the word “Survivor”. She was so small that it seemed as if she could even be_______by a strong wind. But, she was running. And she was_______me and my group of friends. She ran slowly, but _______— as if each step pushed her cancer further into her past. Right at that moment, I__________that in the next Race for the Cure, I'd be running along with her.

A week later, I found myself in the__________, running on the treadmill (跑步机). Three minutes after I started, my face was bright red. I felt like my lungs were going to burst. I__________slow down to a walk. I thought of the__________at the race. I kept it up. I was able to go a little__________each time. Three and a half minutes. Four minutes. Five.

A year later, I was__________at the Race for the Cure, but this time, I__________with the runners. When the race started, the other runners passed me by. I ran forward. I__________if I'd be able to do it. But then, I remembered the__________woman. I ran as fast as I could until I finally crossed that finish line. I had just__________my first race! I looked down at my legs, amazed. They had done something I’d never thought__________. I have never felt stronger than at that moment. And I knew that I wanted to do it again.