1 . The video of a 14-year-old one-armed boy in Yunfu, Guangdong Province, playing basketball spread quickly on social networking sites recently, drawing national ________ for his strong will and excellent ________.

Zhang Jiacheng lost his right arm in an accident when he was five years old. But the challenge did not make him ________ his dream.

He first began playing basketball in 2018 after ________ up for a free basketball training course at school. Two years later, he is better at it than many of his able-bodied _________. Many users left comments under the popular video, saying that watching him play one could ________ say that the boy is physically _________.

National basketball player Yi Jianlian was among those who ________ the boy’s determination. He reposted the video, commenting that the heart is ________ the strongest part of one’s body, depending on the boy’s _________.

________ national basketball player Zhu Fangyu, who is now general manager of the Guangdong South China Tiger Basketball Club, praised the boy’s skills and invited him to their team’s basketball game.

Zhang said ________ excites him as much as playing basketball and being the disabled does not stop him from pursuing his dreams. His spirit should inspire not just minors but even adults to overcome difficulties in life and pursue their dreams.

It is emotional to see the school’s free basketball training program give a differently disabled boy the opportunity to prove his _________.

It is hoped that society will ________ to Zhang in order to realize his dream of becoming a professional basketball player. In the future, society should provide more such support and ________ to other people who are differently disabled to make their dreams come true.

2 . Charlie Villanueva, once an NBA player, is known for his ability to shoot hoops (篮筐). He says his success is largely due to what he has ________ since childhood.

Today Villanueva’s career may look successful, but life wasn’t always ________ for him. At 10, Villanueva got a skin disease alopecia. It caused his ________ loss, which was not life threatening but difficult for a kid to go through. Other kids called him hurtful names. In middle school, he was suspended (停学) for ________ a no-hats rule. ________ a note from his doctor allowed him to wear hats, they only ________ more unfriendly attention.

Through it all, Villanueva’s mother was there for him in good times and bad times. With his mother’s help and _________, Villanueva turned his frustration (挫败) into ________ to play basketball well on the court. As he improved as an athlete; basketball helped him deal with his alopecia.

In fact, over six million Americans have alopecia like Villanueva. They have gifts, abilities and a need to feel _________, Villanueva established the Charlie Villanueva Foundation to help families of kids with alopecia. Villanueva ________ kids to feel good about who they are, work hard toward their goals and ________ to others. Here’s his ________ for them.

“We’re all ________ in our own different ways. Embrace it and enjoy life _________. Many didn’t think I’d make it. Thankfully they were ________ about me. Believe in yourself, and all dreams are possible.”

3 . After a tearless farewell with my daughter, we left her new dorm room. But soon in the campus we saw her running against the August heat. I quickly ________ down the car window and Sarina didn’t miss a step as she turned and happily waved goodbye. I was in ________ why the tears hadn’t come when we parted on her first day in university.

Our first ________, the day she left my body, was a nightmare of pain and suffering. ________, our togetherness following the birth was so sweet that I felt her small body still seemed to be ________ to mine. In the years to come, the sound of her feet running around our house was like the gentle ________ that reminded me that my little girl was here and that someday she would run the   ________ I couldn’t follow.

Last year Sarina turned 16 and decided to   ________ art in college: She was ________ about college life with so much to expect, but I was uneasy because it would be a long plane ride away from home. I tried to imagine what separation would be like, but I couldn’t. Separation, although on the horizon, ________ felt distant.

Until the next morning when I awoke in a house ________ of her footsteps, the tears   ________ came and wouldn’t stop. I understood that Sarina had left the house, and I ________ the memory of her running. When the tears stopped, I was   ________ that with our love and support, she had the ________ to run to an unfamiliar distance, to glance back, yet to keep moving forward.

5 . I experienced a day when I was extraordinarily _________. I’m never a picture of grace, but on this particular day, I seemed to be _________ everything. It’s an old church, and the floor is _________ in some places, so my fall was the floor’s fault. But when I fell again on my way out to the car, and yet again in my own home, I began to grow _________. Had I let myself get so stressed out that I had _________ become sick?

Having been raised by devoted Christian parents who also worked in the mental-health field, I tended to look for spiritual and emotional reasons before I headed to the local _________. I have the calming practice that _________ a yoga pose with a breath prayer. I went to _________ more comfortable clothes for the exercise, and as I removed my shoes, I was _________!

I wasn’t having a stroke(中风) at all. I had completely worn out my favorite pair of shoes. The soles(鞋底) of both shoes were split in two! I had __________ all the possibilities to figure out what was causing my clumsiness. It never occurred to me to check my soles.

So often when we start to feel __________, we look for ways to make things better. But just as it never occurred to me to check the soles of my shoes, our own souls are the very __________ thing we think of to check. Take a moment to remember the last time you sat still, meditating. If you can’t remember when that was, it might be a(n) __________.

The local cobbler(鞋匠) said my soles were __________. We had a good run, but it was time to let them go. Fortunately for us, our souls can be mended and restored—once we realize they are in need of __________.

9 . There was a young boy at a beautiful beach digging sands using his plastic tools. While his other friends were playing the whole time, the little boy spent his day_________his sandcastle. He even_________a moat (护城河) using a spoon, a bridge with a_________, and walls for his castle.

After a whole long day, he finished his_________sandcastle until the waves washed his hard work. Holding back his tears, the boy didn’t get mad and_________decided to study the waves that_________his creation.

The boy was aware of the_________and saw it a couple of times already. He already knew how to do things better. He felt no_________, regret, or fear any more whenever the waves came. He just smiled,_________his tools and left. He knew that the tide was beyond his__________and he couldn’t do anything about it. What he could do though is how to__________those situations.

Basically, no matter where you are, the waves of life will always__________you. What matters most is how you behave during those moments and what they__________about yourselves along this__________called life. Keep calm while looking at things from different viewpoints because sometimes all it takes for__________to happen in your life is by looking at things through different lenses!

10 . “New Recruits Wanted.” This ________ caught my eye and revived (重新唤起) the dream I had since my childhood. But, just as ________, I reminded myself that I was getting close to sixty. Hesitating for a while, I finally entered the hall and filled out a(n)________.

My dream of becoming a firefighter began when I watched the television show Rescue 8, ________ with the cooperation of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Unfortunately, a career in construction and a family to ________ got in the way of working for the local fire department. Now, ________ retirement, my wife and I had just relocated to a beautiful village near Seattle. I had time to give.

To my delight, I was accepted for ________. Yes, I was the oldest recruit, and it was so ________ that I was ready to drop out one day. When I got home from practice that day, a friend came over. I was about to say I could ________ do it anymore when he passed me a beautifully-illustrated book of firefighters in ________, with a personalized message of inspiration, encouraging me to follow my dream. As I looked through the ________, I felt amazed at the courage and devotion of these brave ________. It gave me the strength I needed to carry on.

Over the next few weeks, the training continued to be tough, but I never lost ________ again. I lost twenty pounds, but eventually I was certificated as a firefighter. And now I can drive the big red trucks and ________ my community. When most of my friends are retiring, I’m ________ a new career I love. And I know that you’re never too old to take on new challenges; never too old to follow your dreams.