1 . Dad and I loved baseball and hated sleep. One midsummer ________ when I was nine, we drove to the local park with our baseballs and gloves.

The park was ours for about two hours. Then a young mother pushed her stroller (婴儿车)towards us. When she approached, Dad ________ leaned over the stroller, waved and gave the baby his best smile. The mother stared at him for a second, then ________ . Looking at her back, Dad covered his face with his hands and walked to the car. “Let’s go,” he said. “I’m feeling ________ .”

A month earlier, Bell’s palsy (贝尔氏麻痹) had paralyzed (使瘫痪) the right side of his face. He could ________ drink from a cup without spilling onto his shirt. And his smile was gone. I began understanding that our sunrise park visit was his ________ to avoid stares.

By the time I entered fourth grade that September, his smile hadn’t still ________ So I made a secret ________ : I would avoid ________ of any kind. It’s ________ for a fourth grader to do so. Classmates called me Frowny the Dwarf (皱眉小矮人). My teacher accompanied me into the doorway, asking what was wrong. I told her all and said: “Breaking the promise I had made myself was ________, as I couldn’t stand my Dad suffering ________ ”. Then my teacher ________ Dad. I never ________ what they discussed. But after school that afternoon, I saw Dad waiting for me, holding our gloves and ball. For the first time in months, we went to the park for a ________ . Sundown came quickly, but Dad and I threw balls into the night happily. We had catching up to do.

2 . Miki Kitamura was in tears the day she visited the student support office at Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan. _______ , she told them that she couldn’t pay for her second semester studies to become a medical doctor.

Her father died in February 2018, leaving her family in _______debt, which was a big burden. Her mother has disabilities and can’t speak well. Miki became the head of the household, working part-time and _______to support her family while studying to become a doctor.

_______ her struggles, Miki always dreamed of becoming a doctor. As a child, she had been in hospital several times. “I was scared. _______, there were nurses who comforted me all the time when I cried,” she_______. “These kind words were very comforting to me.” Their _______ left an impression on Miki, who decided to help other people the same way. “I wanted to feel connected with people,” she says, “and I feel like helping other people by making use of the_______ I gained. What I determined to do was to be a medical doctor. Not only am I learning medical knowledge and skills, but also how to understand the needs and _______ of patients.”

With the help of Women’s Opportunity Award, she was ________ of finishing medical school. Graduating in March 2020, she planned to ________ her clinical training near her mother’s house, so that she could ________ her mother while working as a resident doctor. Miki is ________ for the award, making it possible to realize her________of becoming a doctor, supporting her family and giving back to society. “I will do what I can to become a doctor like the ones I ________when I was a child.”