1 . I am a professional athlete. I've always worked hard to _________ myself to my limits and with that usually come some aches and _________. Last year when I started to feel some muscle pain after _________ exercise, at first I didn't think it was a big _________. I was training for a marathon at the time, so over the weekend I'd done a 20-kilometre run.

The following Tuesday I went to my favourite CrossFit gym to do a _________ that involved a lot of upper body weight lifting. My trainer told me to take it easy on my body, but I _________ I'd be fine and powered through it. Afterward，my trainer noticed a _________ swelling in my arm and said he was _________. I tried to _________ him but he insisted I drink a lot of water and __________ my arm with him in a few hours. By that afternoon the swelling had increased. I still thought the trainer was making a mountain out of a molehill (小题大做) but I __________ my trainer so I did it. Then I __________ to the doctor.

The doctor took a look at me and __________ me I suffered from rhabdomyolysis, a life-threatening condition where muscle overuse __________ kidney failure (肾衰竭). As he gave me IV fluids to wash the toxins (毒素), my doctor told me that if I'd waited even another 30 minutes. I would have been in the __________ room. Things were dangerous over the weekend but I fully __________ in the end. I was a very __________ Cross Fitter (健美运动员) but still hadn't realized anything wrong. __________ I had a great trainer I could believe in; he __________ my life.

So trust is important. It can be __________.

2 . We found him at our front door, frightened and shaking. My mom said we’d take care of him until we found out who'd________him.

I’d always wanted a dog, but we couldn’t have one because my sister was________. Now at twelve years old, I still________a dog. So far, my wish had been________. But the little puppy gave me the ________ to play with, feed and care for a dog. I didn’t ________ to think of him as my own, but when a whole day went by with nobody claiming (认领) him, I began to ________. I touched him all night, ________that I was his very owner. Another day went by. The puppy and I were becoming ________. However, I had to remind myself that somebody would claim him________.   

In the evening, somebody ________ to ask about the puppy. My heart________. When she hung up the phone, my mom had a ________conversation with my dad. A few minutes later, they came out and told us that the puppy, called “Fuzzer”, belonged to some other ________.They already had an older dog that didn't get along with Fuzzer. Their mom had never ________to keep Fuzzer and wanted to find him another________! My parents saw how well I’d________with and cared for Fuzzer, and they knew I had always wanted a dog.

________, my sister had not had an allergic reaction to him. Mom told us that Fuzzer was________now.

Fuzz and I grew up together and he was my true________throughout my teenage years.

3 . Ruby Kate, 11 likes to spend time with residents at the local nursing homes where her mother Amada works as a nurse.

One day last summer, Ruby_______that a resident named Pearl was staring out of the window and looking very_______. Ruby and Amanda learnt that Pearl’s dog had just left. She couldn't _______to have someone take care of her dog and it was basically homeless. After a little more _______, Amanda and her daughter found out that Pearl only gets $40 each month from her Medicaid check. Many of the other residents received just as little — if _______ — spending money at all.

Pearl’s story_________Ruby. She wanted to do something to_________her and the other residents. So she got out a_________and wrote down a simple question: “What are three things you wish you had?”

Amanda was_________of Ruby’s broad question. She didn't think her daughter would ________with anything helpful. “In my adult mind, that question is not going to ________” said Amanda. “They're going to tell you that they want things you can't give them.”

She went door to door at the nursing home, __________residents to list their three wishes. When Amanda saw what her daughter wrote in her notebook, she was__________that the list was filled with just________ requests like new pillows, books, razors and peanut butter.

Ruby and Amanda________all of the items on the first list and that started a chain reaction of ________ and kindness. They launched a GoFundMe page to__________money to fulfill more wishes. Soon after, Ruby's story went viral and she's now collected more than $250,000 and__________ her own nonprofit called Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents.

“I'd like it to go on ________ and ever and ever,” she said. “Because I just want it to go________and I want it to go around the states and even in different countries.”