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7 . The New Year was heartbreaking for Melanie Lee. A few weeks earlier, her 33-year-old son had ________ his battle with a long illness. Then the engine on her old car ________ working. She had no means of paying for it to be fixed.

“When it ________, I broke down,” Lee said. “Now I don’t have my ________, now I don’t have transportation. How am I supposed to stay ________ in my grandchildren’s lives?”

Eliot Middleton, 38, the owner of a barbecue restaurant and a former auto mechanic who, in his free time, ________ and gives away used cars. He’d heard about Lee’s difficult ________ from her nephew. On New Year’s morning, Middleton showed up unannounced at Lee’s home with a(n) ________: a white 1933 Oldsmobile.

“I had no idea what was going on,” said Lee. “He ________ me the keys and didn’t ask for anything.” Once again, she was able to ________ her granddaughters from school and take them to dance classes. “I got my ________ back.”

The ________ for the used-car giving away came to Middleton a year earlier during a ________ drive he’d organized. Many of those who’d lined up for a meal ________ up to four miles to get there because they didn’t have cars.

________ are the lifeline in this part of South Carolina, Middleton said. There’s no public ________, no taxis to take people to doctor appointments, even food shopping. So he ________ on a social media platform an offer to trade his restaurant’s specialty for broken-down ________. Since then, people have left more than 100 cars in ________ states of disrepair. Many cars sit in Middleton’s yard waiting to be fixed and ________, usually to those he’s heard about by word of mouth.

It’s a list of names that grow daily.

“People think Middleton is a good man,” Lee’s nephew said. “And I do too.”

9 . Skateboarder Robert Glover’s skills are seriously impressive, but his style isn’t what you’d expect. Born with sacral agenesis(骶骨发育不全), _______ the growth of his legs, Mr. Glover uses his _______ body strength to move his skateboard. Instead of relying on legs, he uses his _______ and body to control the board.

The Namibian born skateboarder, sailor, boxer and entrepreneur speaks regularly about the _______ of not viewing obstacles as limits and is _______ about sharing this message far and wide via social media. “I don’t think obstacles are here to _______ us,” Mr. Glover said. “In my opinion, obstacles have been some of the biggest growing _______ both mentally and physically in my life.”

He regular shares images of his _______ skill to Instagram. In a video, Mr. Glover shared the _______ of how he first realised skntehoarding was a ________ for him and what motivates him to continue improving his skills. “I might not skate ________ but I can skate better than you.” he said in the video.

“Since I was young, I’ve ________ the idea of being in a wheelchair. Someone ________ me their board and I just used it as ________ . One day someone was like, ‘Hey, let’s check out the skate park’. I saw the ________ . I just fell in love with it. Adaptive skating is ________ skaters who use any way, shape or form to ride on a board.”

“It’s pretty sick because everyone has a ________ way of doing things. I’ve been injured, it’s an unpleasant feeling and it’s motivation not to ________ again. Skating is and always will be an outlet. The feeling of landing something is just so ________ . Life is open-ended. Just go out here and ________ things your way. ‘