3 . Chase Friedman awoke inside the hospital paralyzed from the neck down,________ whether he’d walk again, Friedman, 25,________ and fell on his friend’s bathroom floor, an accident that ________ injured his spine (脊柱) and left him unable to move his arms and legs. Doctors told him his ________ of walking again were “50-50”. The Los Angeles ________ thought “my life was over”. But on a Saturday less than three months later, Friedman climbed the Art Museum steps, bringing friends, family and strangers to ________. After he raised his ________ at the top of the steps, Friedman told the crowd that “anything is possible”. “I’m glad that people are ________ because it does prove that you can beat everything,” Friedman said.

His journey up the 72 steps started well before Saturday. After surgeons put pins (钢针) in his spine, he learned to walk again at Magee Hospital. He practiced on instruments and stairs, held up by a belt or his physical therapist, Erin Freimuth.________, his recovery attracted hundreds of thousands of people on TikTok, the social media platform where he would post videos of his ________. A video ________ Saturday’s journey up the Art Museum steps received 1.8 million ________.

Friedman arrived in a wheel-chair and ________ a walker as he approached the steps. The crowd of about a hundred people, who were dancing, exercising and ________ for photos beforehand, fell silent. With the ________ gone, Friedman took each step slowly. The crowd ________ when he reached each ________.

When his mother visited, the sight of her son unable to do anything was ________ . But seeing him ________ the Art Museum steps, she said. “This is definitely a time when everybody in the world needs ________.”

4 . Moving Forward With Small Steps

Frustration is the state of feeling incompetent.     1    . As your guilt rises, your self-esteem (自尊) might be going down.

We've all seen those TV programs about organizing closets and handling the junk in the basement. Those shows can be fun to watch.    2    . Why? Our own unfinished business starts coming to mind. To reduce frustration, it pays to keep moving forward on changing small things. Little chores do add up. These kinds of techniques can move you in the right direction:

Picture the steps from A-Z on completing a larger task. It's easier to divide chores into manageable pieces if you can foresee the outcome.

Make sure money isn’t holding you up. We can all delay getting things done because of money needed.    3    

    4     Mental energy really plays into the mix of moving your life forward. Be sure to think about good things on purpose to lessen a downfall.

While you want to live in reality, don't forget that you have the power to bring positive thinking to your world. If you don’t, your relationships will suffer.    5    .

5 . In an era when many parents make efforts to ensure that boys and girls have equal opportunities, a recent study found that boys are paid twice as much allowance as girls for doing weekly chores.

An analysis of 10, 000 families across the US showed that boys earned an average of $13. 80 each week compared with $6. 71 earned by girls, according to BusyKid, a web platform that allows kids to receive, spend, or invest their allowance. “I think this is a wake-up call for parents to be cognizant (认识到) of what they are paying, to make sure they are being as fair as possible,” said Gregg Murset, CEO of BusyKid,

According to the analysis, boys averaged more allowance than girls because they were more often assigned chores considered more physically difficult, including cutting the grass. Girls, meanwhile, were more often paid for jobs such as loading the dishwasher. Boys also earned more money because they were paid for things girls were not paid for at all, including showering and brushing their teeth.

In Illinois, Vaishali Patel tries hard to teach her two children that gender should’t determine what chores they are assigned or what activities they choose. The parents don’t pay their children an allowance, and instead expect them to help with all jobs around the house. But Patel said the children still pick up on old-fashioned gender stereotypes (刻板印象) from elsewhere, like when they tell their son to try dance classes in addition to the sports he plays. “He’s like, ‘No way am I doing that’,” said Patel. “Some of that is really hard to influence.”

The stereotype can also be seen at Future Investor Clubs of America, a summer camp offered in many US cities to teach financial responsibility and wealth strategies to teens. In the past 21 years, it has consistently enrolled mostly boys, despite efforts by camp management to recruit girls.

Barbara Risman, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said that while Americans have come a long way in terms of offering more equal opportunities for men and women, changing mindsets (心态) permanently takes even more time.

The best way to counter the patterns, Risman added, is to think about and discuss the way we approach gender roles as often as possible. “You can’t change behavior you have never noticed,” she said.

7 . The Alps has more than 5, 000 glaciers, which not only give the region its spectacular beauty but are also vital to its economy and people. Glaciers form over thousands of years, with snow freezing on the mountain top and being pressed into enormous masses of ice, which slowly move downhill.

The Alps are particularly susceptible to climate change because the global warming effect is more pronounced over land masses than over water. While the world as a whole has increased in temperature by around 0.74 degrees Celsius, the Alps region has experienced a marked increase of around 2 degrees Celsius—which means glaciers form more slowly and melt more quickly, leading to shrinkage.

Even if you do not live in an area that will be directly affected by melting glaciers, they are important because they help prevent global warming due to what scientists call the “feedback effect”. Glaciers reflect solar energy like a mirror from the planet’s surface—so as their surface area shrinks, they reflect back less of the sun's rays and the planet heats up faster for everyone.

The consequences for local communities will be devastating and far reaching. As global warning melts the glaciers, it also melts the soil, causing instability that results in catastrophic rockfalls and mudslides. In August 2017, residents of Bondo, a picturesque Swiss mountain village in the shadow of the Piz Cengalo glacier, had to flee for their lives as 3 million cubic meters of rock fell towards them.

Even if carbon emissions could be stopped immediately, two-thirds of the glaciers will still melt away by the year 2100—so the people of the Alps are going to have to adapt.

10 . It would be an understatement to say that Ernestine Shepherd is in better________than most people. The 80-year-old________lives by the words "determined, dedicated and disciplined" to stay in the best health possible.

Ernestine Shepherd recently________her 80th birthday. And she still________every day. But this was not always the case, she says. "Earlier in life, I really did not think too much about eating________nor exercising, but as time went on, my mind changed completely."

One day she went out________with her sister, Mildred Blackwell. They tried on a swimsuit. Both women realized they were out of________. Blackwell suggested that they take a fitness class to lose weight and get in shape. So at age 56, alongside her sister, Shepherd started to exercise. She said her sister________her to do more than just exercise.

"My sister was________in getting me started to lift weights and to try to become a bodybuilder." Then, in 1992, Mildred Blackwell died suddenly. Ernestine says the________deepened her commitment to good health. She promised to continue training as a bodybuilder to honor her sister's________.

Soon Ernestine invested in a personal________. Then after training, she did her first bodybuilding________. Ernestine Shepherd holds the 2010 and 2011________in the Guinness World Records as the World's Oldest Performing Female Bodybuilder. Shepherd keeps a________diet of proteins and carbohydrates such as chicken and rice. And she gets________from Collin, her husband of 52 years, who helps prepare her seven small meals a day.

Shepherd says her lifestyle changes________her of several health conditions." No more high blood pressure medicine. No more panic attacks. Exercise is not work, it’s fun." Shepherd still competes in body building________. And, this year, she became a (an)________. Her book, "Determined, Dedicated and Disciplined To Be Fit," came out in April, just before she turned 80. And, Ernestine shares a________about aging. "If ever there was an anti-aging pill you will have to call it exercise."