1 . Jen is a 39-year old community dancer with Down’s Syndrome(唐氏综合征). She is the founder of Dance Syndrome, a nonprofit organization that brings together _______ dancers and make them feel equal to everyone.

Dancing has always been in her veins. As a young girl, Jen seized every opportunity to dance with full _______ both in the morning and during her 10 minutes of _______ before bedtime. The dynamic workout would keep her _______ all day long.

Life hasn’t been straightforward for Jen. She was _______ by a number of dance clubs in primary school and encountered numerous _______ while pursuing her passion for dance. Despite these challenges, her ambition to share her love for dance and _______ disabled individuals in the art grew stronger.

After leaving school at 18, Jen spent over 10 years searching _______ for opportunities to be trained as a dance leader. Eventually, she had to give up and decided to try her own way, not knowing where it might lead!

Despite the _______, Dance Syndrome was established in 2009. Jen and her fellow disabled dance leaders took ________ of the charitable organization, working alongside non-disabled dance artists who helped them work more professionally.

Over the decade, Dance Syndrome has ________ thousands of disabled dancers, cultivating an environment where every person is recognized as equal, ________ and accepted for who they are. The year 2019 witnessed Jen ________ for the third time as a member of Shaw T rust’s Disability Power 100. She is a living proof that ________ can come from unexpected places and that disabled individuals can ________ society in extraordinary ways.

2 . In 2008, Calvin Lowe's four-year-old son Tyler needed to have a serious surgery.

On the appointed day of the ___________ , he and his wife brought Tyler to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver. “As we sat in the waiting room, waiting for someone to__________ us back to the surgery area, there was a lot of____________ in our hearts,” Lowe remembered.

When a nurse called the family back, Lowe’s fears _____________.A young doctor walked into the room and told the couple that he would be ____________the surgery. As the doctor began to ____________how the surgery would proceed, Lowe’s mind went to the worst possible_____________, But then the doctor did something   ____________.He looked both Lowe and his wife in the eye, put a___________hand on each of their shoulders, and said, “Today, your son is my son.”

After the surgery was over, the ____________came back out to the family with a big smile and said, “Our son is just fine, and you can____________ him here in a few minutes.”

Tyler is now 19 years old and hopes to become a professional photographer. All these years after the surgery, Lowe still____________ the young doctor’s kindness. “I will never forget that,” Lowe said. “Because that was indeed a ____________   of stress then. I can’t tell you how ____________   we both were for what he said to us that day. It was very____________   and meaningful.”

3 . When Janey Lowes went backpacking in Sri Lanka, the huge number of badly injured homeless dogs she encountered ___________ her. Over 5,000 miles from home with no equipment, she was completely unable to help, so she contacted local veterinarians (兽医) but it was ___________ to treat severe issues due to limited supplies. That’s when this young veterinarian had the ___________ to make a change.

Back in the UK, Janey ___________ to secure a donation of £10,000. She then moved to Sri Lanka and set up a charity. Every day, Janey and her team drove around, ___________ injured dogs and providing treatment.

___________, dogs were treated on the side of the road or in Janey’s home. With too many of them, soon Janey’s house was ___________, and she realized she needed a bigger base. Renting an old school with a garden for recovering dogs to play in, Janey ___________ a new hospital called WECare. However, with money extremely tight, ___________ worries were always present. Just as Janey was about to give up due to ____________ of money, WECare was featured in a BBC documentary. It was an absolute ____________ point. Donations increased, allowing her to slowly build the best-equipped local veterinary hospital which she and her team work from today.

“Helping these creatures gives me a sense of ____________,” Janey shared, “but Sri Lanka has about 3 million street dogs, so the ____________ is still great. We hope it might have a snowball effect and ____________ other veterinary practices in this country to ____________ themselves in order to tackle what is a major problem.”

4 . Gail Rodgers, a grandma of three, has become a lifeguard at her local pool. Seeing her local pool couldn’t ________ due to a lifeguard shortage, the 66 year old woman decided that her ________ wouldn’t get in the way while helping her community. “I did this lifeguard thing back in the late ‘60s’.________ , I thought I can do this again,’’ she said.

Rodgers, ________ in the late 1960s, said she had to learn new skills. Jeff Blume, president of Cincinnati Pool Management and Rodgers’ boss, also admitted that the physical examination is ________. “Lifeguard candidates have to swim a 300 yard length, and then submerge (潜入水中) and grab a 10-pound brick off the bottom of the pool,” Blume explained.

Through great ________, Rodgers became a part time lifeguard.   “It’s been fun ________ people enjoying the nice weather in the pool. It’s been more ________ than I expected to be,” Rodgers said. Her boss said it has also been a joy to have her on their team.

Blume noted that fear can ________ a lot of people and he’s glad that Rodgers is such a(n) ________ for being courageous. “I think there’s a ________ of ‘I can’t do this’ or ‘That’s not for me. That’s for the young’ or something like that. So, there’s a lot to ________, but if people want to do it, we could help them with the skills and give them a little bit more of a________ before they actually take the class. If people ________ that is an option, I think they might not look at the skills test as a tall mountain to get over.”   They hope more people are inspired to ________ life-guarding as the country continues to face lifeguard shortages.

5 . When Sergio Peralta,15, started the year as a new student at Hendersonville High School, he tried to keep it a (an) _________ that he was born with a right hand that didn’t fully form. “In the first days of school, I honestly felt like hiding my hand,” Peralta said. “Like nobody would ever _________.”

Eventually, a teacher in the engineering program, Jeff Wilkins, _________ Peralta’s hand, and suggested that his engineering students might be able to _________. “They ended up offering me, like, ‘We could build you a robotic hand’and I never _________ it,” said Peralta.

Though the teens were unsure if the _________ would work, they didn’t let uncertainty stop them from _________.They spent four weeks designing, sizing, and creating a robotic hand with online models and a 3-D printer, _________ discovering first-hand how engineering can be used to make a(an) _________ difference.

Peralta had become__________ at using his left hand to write and do nearly everything else. But there were certain things that weren’t __________, like catching a baseball with his right hand.

So after about a month of building the robotic hand and developing a __________ with Peralta along the way, the students tested the robotic hand with a __________ of catch. For the first time, Peralta was able to play catch with both hands.

“Living without a hand for 15 years, I want to say they actually offered me two. This is actually pretty __________ . No one has ever offered me this stuff,” he said. “They __________ my life.”

6 . Last year we were stuck in a little restaurant in France on Christmas Eve. My wife ______ for us in French. Somehow, the waiter brought us the wrong meal, so I scolded her angrily. She began to cry and I felt even______. Everything had gone wrong. There was no Christmas ______ in our hearts.

Suddenly, in came an old flower woman who went from table to table but no one ______ any. Tiredly she sat down at a table where a young sailor finished his meal. He stood up and ______ two corsages (小花束), smiling, “How much are they?”   “Two francs, Monsieur.” He then _______ the woman a 20-franc note, leaning over and ______ her ancient cheek.   “My Christmas present to you.” Then, ______, he came to our table, gave my wife a corsage, ______ us a Merry Christmas, and departed.

Everyone had stopped eating. Everyone was silent. A few seconds later, Christmas ______ throughout the restaurant like a bomb. The flower woman jumped up, waving the 20-franc ______, and did a merry dance. She was so _____ and appeared 20 years younger. My wife waved her corsage in time with the rhythm and the______ had left her eyes.

______ the Christmas spirit in his soul, the young sailor released the ______ and joy hidden by anger within us. He gave us Christmas!

7 . My grandchild, Harold, was celebrating his 7th birthday. Asked what _________ he wanted, he said he wanted me to make fudge (乳脂软糖). I _________ it perhaps 20 years earlier with little success. What I once made was either fudge _________ or a hard and burnt rock.

Harold remembered me telling of these _________, but he held the _________ that I could successfully make fudge for him. Since he eagerly wanted it, I _________ and I tried my best to make it.

I followed the _________ step by step, which told me to “continue stirring the cooked mixture until it turns white and shiny”. I _________ stirring it. And then something _________ happened. I felt the fudge start to harden. “This is just the ____________ moment,” I thought. I stopped stirring immediately and poured it into a big plate. How happy! The fudge came out ____________ for the first time!

As I presented the perfectly crafted fudge to Harold, his eyes sparkled with ____________ and a wave of pride ____________ me. It dawned on me that life is about a series of challenges and, more importantly, opportunities for ____________. It’s about embracing the unknown and believing in oneself even when past experiences may suggest otherwise. Harold’s simple ____________ had become a catalyst (催化剂) for personal growth and overcoming my own limitations.

8 . I remember it was a Saturday. I was invited to my friend’s birthday party.   _______ the first time, I was the first one there. I sat on her couch and just waited _______ for the party to begin. As a flood of guests came in with warm _______, there was one short, thin girl who had a huge smile on her face. She just seemed so _______ from the other girls there. So I decided to begin a conversation with her.

I asked her “Did your mum drive you here?” She answered, “Oh, my mum was _______.” My heart sank. I continued, “When did she die?” “She died when I was seven.”

Later on, she told us what had happened the day her mother died. “I came home, _______ to tell my mum what a great day I had had. _______ I entered the room, I saw my mother on a stretcher (担架). I began _______ my sister. She just said, ‘Emma, Mum just needs to go to the hospital.’”

The girl said that she went to sleep that night with _______, and woke up to be told by her sister, “Emma, please keep ________. Mum’s dead.”

I was so ________ by this girl’s story. She lost her mother at such a young age, but she made up her mind to be strong. With such a big weight of the world on her ________, she looked positive and optimistic. She did not shed (流) a(n) ________ when telling us her story. Strength is something that can ________ pain at the worst time. She lives every day of her life to the fullest,________ with a heavy heart.

9 . Two years ago, Jaylan Gray was in college pursuing his dream of becoming a park keeper. But when his mother died, he had to _________ school and leave that dream behind to take care of his younger brother. Today, Jaylan’s _________ is his 12-year-old brother Julian, who he describes as his “reason” since their mother’s death. “From that day on, I swore—at all costs—I’m _________ him,” Jaylan said.

But then, things got _________.When a major freeze hit Texas last year, the pipes _________ in the brothers’ home—the one their mother had left them—and _________   everything. Then, a worker Jaylan hired to fix it took their life savings and ran off.

“Yeah, I was basically _________ ,” Jaylan said. The boys were living with their last surviving close relative when a non-profit called Katy Responds caught wind of their _________ .

The group _________   houses after natural disasters. Over the years, they’ve helped more than a hundred families— __________ few were more worthy than those boys.

“They had no idea people would want to jump in and __________ them,” said director Ron Peters—which may have __________ their jaw-dropping, speechless reactions when they walked into their “new” home.

Thanks to an army of donors and volunteers, the brothers were __________ back in their house, which is fully __________ and better than ever.

When their mother died, Julian and Jaylan thought all they had was each other. But they were __________ they had a whole community.

10 . My husband and I were on our flight to America. The cabin was _______ for the films when shouts of “Wake up! Oh, help!” rang out. “Is there a doctor aboard?” No surgeon wanted to hear these words while flying, but I still _______ quickly.

I was out of my seat and ran to see a frightened elderly woman holding the hand of her husband, who wasn’t _______ to her. His head was back, _______ closed. I did a quick examination: colour good, no evident pain, breathing _______ without effort. I sat down, still _______ his heartbeat, and asked the woman about her husband. Luckily, he had a _______ medical history and took no medicine. The couple had travelled to _______ their 60th wedding anniversary. It had been a good holiday, she explained, but _______. Suddenly her husband opened his eyes, and asked, “What’s happened?” So I explained, “Your heartbeat isn’t quite right, and that may have ________ your unconsciousness (昏迷).”

Soon after, when I reported the whole situation to the ________, he asked me, “We can put the plane down in 20 minutes in Gander, or ________ for two hours in Toronto. What do you want me to do, doc?” “Put it down,” I replied. Although I don’t know ________ what resulted in the man’s trouble, the truth is, travel for ________ can be stressful, and there’s enormous potential for medical treatments.

Three weeks later, I received a thank-you note from the gentleman, who will ________ remain in good health for years to come. Seeing each patient getting well again is the best gift for a doctor.