1 . Exercise can mean a lot of things to a lot of people, so there are a lot of great reasons to exercise.

Sometimes exercise can feel like a bit of a ________, something you have to do for health ________. But regular exercise can ________ your life, whether it helps you overcome stress, learn something about yourself, or help you ________ your body. Here are 2 stories from people who moved their bodies in new and sometimes ________ ways, and found out that it changed their life for the better.

I have had depression (沮丧, 抑郁) a couple of times and I also have general anxiety disorder. I found that longboarding around the city really ________ my mood the last time I was going through a ________ of depression. I don’t skate much anymore, but I have picked up ________ the past three years. All I can think about when I am climbing is climbing. It has been a ________ for my anxiety to be able to completely throw away the worries in my head and just think about getting to the top.

When I was 23, my grandpa sadly passed away. Hearing my mom’s message, I was ________. The tears couldn’t stop swimming in my eyes and I ________ control, I was just starting my track season and I decided that I should get a head start and start running. When I felt like crying or screaming or anything, I would get up and go for a ________. That year I ________ my personal best by over a minute and I ran my first half marathon. Since then I ran another half marathon, full marathon, and am ________ training for a second marathon. Running just ________ emotion for me.

2 . Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _______ my e-mail. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _______newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _______ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _______: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, _______ I’m not good at self-control. But I was _______. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone _______ at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was _______, forced to carry out my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail and my favourite newspaper websites, I had little way to _______ the world. I had no ________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally ________ that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the ________.

I knew I had ________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said. ________, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to ________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.

6 . The Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese. This year, I decided to participate in all the activities organized for _________ students to celebrate the Spring Festival.

The preparation began a month ago, _________ our rooms with Spring Festival couplets (对联) and New Year paintings. Later we _________ an activity to write Spring Festival couplets. When I saw my teacher bring a special kind of pen, I became _________ to know what it was called. In addition, we were going to use a brush to _________ Chinese characters on red paper. Besides, there was another _________ thing called ink. After _________ the tools needed for Spring Festival couplets, we started our _________ journey. The teacher taught us how to hold a writing brush. I tried to hold it, _________ it in the ink, and start writing carefully, but the __________ of the pen was too soft and I couldn’t __________ it at all. I was disappointed but I did not give up. I carefully studied the teacher’s __________. After several attempts, I wrote a line of words At this time, I found that my sleeves (袖子) were already filled with ink as I was too focused on __________.

Even so I was very happy, because I felt that I had learned the __________ of writing calligraphy, that is, to hold the pen in the correct __________. Then I realized sometimes I have to experience something in order to understand it.

7 . Labor is important and necessary for everyone. I am glad that I learned the ______ of work when I was a child.

I grew up on a farm. We had to care for ______ such as cows and sheep from morning till evening, seven days a week. ______during school vacations and on weekends we still had ______ work to do. I was paid for my work. From the age of 10, my parents ______ me ＄1 an hour. Because of this, I learned how to ______ money. When I was only 11, I saved enough to buy a ten-speed bicycle. In high school, I ______ a job in a nearby town during the summer to save money ______ college. I learned how to manage money at an   ______ age.

I also learned the satisfaction of work well done. The young animals were my responsibility. Most   ______ often had problems with their young cows getting sick. I was proud that my young cows were usually ______ . I loved it when the whole family ______ together to get in hay (干草) before a rainstorm. It was exciting when we jumped out of bed in the middle of the night to ______ the cows in the field after they had escaped through a broken fence (栅栏). Doing hard work at an early age ______ me how valuable it can be. And from these ______ I learned to be confident and self-disciplined (自律的).

9 . For as long as she can remember, 13-year-old Lila Hoffa has struggled to express herself in writing. Her handwriting is sometimes _________ and disorganized, and she used to have trouble holding a _________. In her first years at school, her teachers didn’t _________ that anything was wrong. But that _________ when she met her third grade teacher, Valerie Holmgren.

“Mrs. Holmgren realized that there was something more going on than just the _________ writing problems,” Lila said. Lila was diagnosed with dysgraphia (书写困难症). So her teachers and her parents held a meeting to _________ what to do next. “We were all sitting around a long table,” Lila _______. And Mrs. Holmgren pulled out a _________ and opened up a speech-to-text program that _________ changed spoken words into typed text.

“This was a/an __________ moment for me because I realized all of the stories and the ideas that I had __________ in my head — there was an easy way to get them down onto __________,” Lila said. Lila now uses speech-to-text software every day. The first story she __________ was called “The Girl Who Couldn’t Stop Reading — AKA Me!”, which became a __________ the moment it was published.

If Holmgren were standing in front of Lila today, this is what Lila would say, “Thank you for noticing my __________ and noticing that there was so much more to me.”