1 . The dancer who performs in a wheelchair

Joe performed at the Royal Ballet as a child but thought his career was over after he lost full use of his legs.

Naturally he was quite _______, which was good for dance but it’s not good for life. About five weeks into his fourth year, he had grown much taller. His flexibility couldn’t match the height quickly and he ended up _______ his left knee. Then he was _______ a car accident. So he thought his dancing _______.

Joe now _______ inclusive ballet dancing for differently abled dancers. Once he came across vocational (职业的) trainers who were _______ to train people in a wheelchair. But he was quite lucky _______ he had received vocational training before he gained his disability. Over time, Joe’s performance has become outstanding.

Nowadays, as the _______ of a Royal Ballet show with a dance partner Issy, Joe often wonders how other dancers like him can _______ the same level of training.

Joe also explains the new ballet dancing. “Maybe you think of it as a(n) ________ ballet technique. In fact, we twist it and ________ it into an entirely new and different thing.”

Isabel Lubach, a Royal Ballet dancer says, “It just feels so ________. It’s just such a unique way of working to find those sort of different challenges. It feels really ________ to be on the stage with other differently abled dancers.”

There’s always more work to do, ________ in the classical ballet world, different dancers have different accessible needs. To address the problem, they ________ need to have conversations, and look at how they can redefine the ballet technique to everyone.

4 . Finding beautiful shells and interesting pieces of driftwood scattered in the sand is one of the joys of walking along the beach. For one beachcomber, Tracey’s finds are a little more _________.

Back in 1997, about five million pieces of Lego (乐高积木) were _________ at sea off the coast of Cornwall from a cargo ship hit by an once-in-a-century wave, and the _________ pieces that soon appeared on the beaches quickly became a treasure for beachcombers.

When Tracey _________ a piece of Lego off the coast, she couldn’t have dreamed what started as a collecting _________ would have turned into an exploration of the ocean. Tracey _________ her findings on her social media account “LegoLostAtSea” and her shoreline social posts of washed up objects have inspired _________ and groups alike. Thousands of people got in _________, sharing details of their own beachcombing _________.

“It was assumed that roughly half the Lego sank and half __________,” says Tracey. “What we’re realizing is that even the Lego that __________ sank is now starting to wash ashore and it’s gradually drifting along the seabed.”

Now Tracey and her followers continue to __________ the shores and also team up with environmental groups and scientists. The scientists calculated the pieces could __________   anywhere between 100 and 1,300 years. Their next scientific project is to __________ the spread of the Lego to see how __________ it has drifted, not only on the surface of the ocean—some even reached Holland—but also along the seabed.

6 . I was in a PhD program in history when I came down with schizoaffective disorder (分裂情感性障碍). I was forced to ________ my education and began a ________ period of treatment. The biggest ________ I faced was what I was going to do with my life if I couldn’t be a ________ professor anymore, my long-cherished dream.

Fortunately, with the help of my doctor, I soon found a(n) ________: I would become a nonfiction writer in my field of seventeenth-century British history. I tried my best to make the plan a ________. But it all seemed to be for nothing.

For some time, I was ________. But I refused to ________. It occurred to me that I could write a ________, an art I had once practiced but also had long since ________. I found that writing poetry was a source of the deepest ________. Before long, I spent as much time as I could writing poetry. When I was writing, I hardly felt sick anymore. I ________ my illness. In the end, I found the writer inside myself, branching out into ________ fields with hope and anticipation.

Through the experience, I’ve learned no matter what happens, always look to the future with hope. It may take a while, but you can________ in creating a rich and satisfactory life again. All you ________ is perseverance, motivation, and hard work.

7 . I was driving on a mountain road in heavy rain. The higher up I ________, the harder the rain came down, making visibility (能见度) ________. Suddenly, I found myself sliding on the ________ road. Before I knew it, I had lost all control of the car. One second, I was driving ________, and the next horrible second, I was heading south facing oncoming traffic. Then the car, without any _________from me, completed its 360-degree spin (快速旋转) and ________ went north again.

But Mother Nature wasn’t through with me yet. I found I was moving toward the dangerous edge of the road. Then I saw a ________ in the lane (车道) on my right. Since my brakes were ________, I heard the sound of metal against metal as I hit it. The ________ made me across the road to the left where my car fortunately ________.

In great fear, I got out of the car on ________ legs and approached the truck owner to check on him and ________ for crashing into him. Then something that was totally ________ happened. He smiled at me and said. “I’m ________ I was there for you to hit, or you would have gone right over the edge of the road.”

Today I still remember the kind-hearted driver’s ________ and words, which have been inspiring me to show pity on others ever since.

9 . As a first-generation Asian immigrant (移民) who had grown up in poverty, I knew I was beyond _________ to be admitted into Harvard. I loved books, but it never crossed my mind to become a(n)_________ of any sort. I didn’t _________ to have unrealistic dreams.

Still, something _________ me. My deskmate had _________ our friendship recently. There wasn’t a dramatic fight or disagreement. He had _________ moved on to new friends. I felt an ache in my chest that _________ night. I started doodling (涂鸦) on my notepad and then, suddenly, my hand started writing words. I’d written a poem about him. There on the page was the truth about how much it hurt to _________ him.

That tiny poem was a _________that rooted in my heart. I realized I could possibly become a writer and from that moment on, it was all I __________to do. So I changed my field of study to English. I __________ my first short stories while I was still a student. I went on to write my first novel, Girl in Translation, which became an international __________ and is taught in schools around the world.

That night, I learned that art isn’t a __________ . It’s at the core of what makes us human. Although I’d believed that immigrants couldn’t afford to be __________, I understood then that we had always been the ultimate artists,__________ourselves again and again as we try to adapt to a new landscape.

10 . I grew up in a low-income household where music became my refuge (避难所) from my teenage anxiety. Despite knowing deep within my heart that music was my ______, I chose to ______ the journey to medical school. Being a doctor meant a lot to me: a life of security, ______ stability and social status. However, the stress and the lack of “me” time saw me deeply ______ in a song-less decade.

______, with the assistance of a young producer, I wrote and recorded a six-song demoCD. This was my first experience in a professional recording studio, and it was ______! Finally, after all those years of ______ my passion, I wanted to be a songwriter.

I ______ to a professional musician and asked if he would listen to some of my songs ______ the events of my life, of grief and pain, new relationships, and love lost and found. Thirty minutes later, he looked at me with a bright smile and said, “You’re ready to ______ an album (唱片).” His words gave me the ______ I needed.

One year later, Perfect Love, my first full-length CD, was officially ______, and is now ______ to users on iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby.

My life feels ______ and I know I have done what I was meant to do. So you too can ______ it is indeed possible, whatever your life circumstances, to make your dream come true.