4 . Beep! Beep! Beep! I rolled over and turned off my alarm clock. It was still dark outside so I felt my way to the wall switch and ________ the light. I got up quickly because I knew my dog would be ________ to get outside for the morning walk. I reached over to grab a ________ and stopped. It was ________ still autumn but the ________ here in the Appalachian mountains of my home didn’t follow the calendar. It had been ________ and snowy two days ago but warm and rainy yesterday. I had forgotten to check the weather report for today, however, so I wasn’t sure if I ________ my light jacket or my heavy coat.

I ________ my light jacket, pulled it on and leashed up my dog. I opened the door and stepped outside. Just for a moment I realized I had made the ________ choice. Each breath I exhaled was a frozen mist. The wind chill was bitter cold. The grass was covered in ________ and I tried to keep my ________   while my dog dragged me along behind him.

I shivered (打寒颤) and complained a bit but finally turned my ________ up to the heavens. I looked up at the pre-dawn ________ and saw it was full of twinkling stars. It was so beautiful and so peaceful. ________, I felt a warmth inside of me and ________ shivering. While my dog sniffed the ground, I opened my heart to the ________ of nature’s creation. In all of its different seasons it had never ________ to touch my soul. It had heated my heart on the coldest days and ________ my spirit on the darkest nights.

Our lives here are full of various ________ as well. From the innocence and youth of Spring to the wisdom and wrinkles of Winter, we are all called to live, to give, to grow and to love. ________ all your seasons. Make each day a creation of your love.

5 . Beginning to learn gymnastics even before she could barely walk, Svetlana had always dreamed to enter the Olympics scene some day.

However, her ________ ended in the car on the winding road when a lorry appeared out of nowhere. The last thing she ________ was a blinding flash of light. In hospital, when told she would never ________ again, she couldn’t believe it. Three months later, she was ________ out of hospital on a wheelchair. Then a friend came to her house to visit her with an old Child’s storybook. A bookmark in it made her ________ to page 117. The name of the ________ was ‘The Day Clara walked’. She was determined to return to stage whatever it might cost.

________, after a year’s hard exercise, Svetlana ________ and was able to display her gymnastics. While she was sitting on the green bench ________ the Athens Stadium, memories ________: first, the pain and the tears, the book under her pillow, the words of relatives full of advice and comfort, and the pity in those eyes that had once held ________ for her talent. Then followed the trips to the gym where everyone looked on   ________, their disbelief transforming slowly to wonder, ________ she could balance the hoop (健身圈) as well as her teammates. She registered for the Olympic Games and finally she received ________ from the Olympic Committee.

Her ________ was interrupted by the attendant who said, “It’s time”, two words that she had been ________ to hear for so long. Smoothing her dress, she walked into the stadium, each________ firm and steady. Everything was ________, and the applause rang loud in her ears, her heart hammering violently against her chest.

Later that night, Svetlana pulled the gold medal out of her pocket and placed it on the old ________ on the shelf, which opened to page 117, to the chapter ‘The Day Clara Walked’, tears ________ her vision.

6 . It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard _______ a little dog going around his camp trying to _______ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all_______, he had packed just enough for the whole _______. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a_______ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog_________ him again. He waved her away, _______ she might be stepped on by the runners. _________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race _________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even __________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to________ her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi __________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a ________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race__________ my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, __________ just focusing on winning,” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more________, giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was ________. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ________, he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his ________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she __________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

9 . At thirteen, I was diagnosed (诊断) with a kind of attention disorder. It made school _______ for me. When everyone else in the _______ was focusing on tasks, I could not.

In my first literature class, Mrs. Smith asked us to _______ a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes. I _______ my hand right away and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the _______ said I have attention problems. I might not be able to do it.” She _______ me through her glasses, “You are no different from your classmates, young man.”

I _______ then, but I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to _______ it home. In the _______ of my bedroom, the story ________ all became clear to me! It was about a (an) ________ person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much ________. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he ________ a reading system of raised dots (点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “________” students? My thoughts spilled out and my pen started to ________. I completed the task within 40 minutes. Indeed, I was no________ from others; I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way ________ of his problems, why should I ever give up?

I didn’t ________ anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a ________ when it came back to me the next day -- with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words: “See what you can do when you keep ________ ?”

10 . Loida Guillen Strong couldn't be prouder of her mom Mercedes，who has always put her family first.

Growing up in the Dominican Republic , Mercedes wanted to become a _______. But when her father died, she must make a_______choice:stay in school or take care of her brother and sister. She_______ the latter.

As an adult, Mercedes_______her dream once again to raise Loida and her brother. Their family eventually moved to America, where Mercedes wasted no opportunity to_______the importance of a good education. She may have_______to leave school , but she wanted more for her kids.

Thanks to her mom's_______，Loida grew up to become a doctor, which was her mom's childhood dream. After_______for 10 years and saving some money，she thought it was her_______to make her mom proud!________,she began to study for a doctor's degree. But Loida________to keep it a secret from her mom---for nearly three years !

________,on August l, 2020, the time came to________her mom. Loida called her mother, ________that she was ill in the University of Central Florida's College of Nursing. When Mercedes rushed inside________ and saw Loida standing in a cap and gown(长袍 ). After learning the________, the excited mom fell to her knees. That was a________for Loida and herself!

Loida told her,"It is you that________ me complete my dream. I want you to know that your________sacrifice is not in vain. "

Let's send Loida and Mercedes our________! They've both worked so hard to make this dream come true !