1 . Tommy Price, 27, was running through Halls Fell Ridge in the Lake District with his friend Max Saleh, 26. ____, the lifeguard’s run was stopped when he suffered a life- threatening episode(发病)-finding himself face down on the ____

Temperatures had been at____ point all day with strong winds and snow as Tommy took a turn for the _____. As the pair’s phones were short of battery, Max made the brave _____to put Tommy in an emergency survival bag and run for help.

When Max _____ his best friend, he was clinically dead for up to three hours and 20 minutes. Tommy suffered a sudden cardiac arrest (心脏骤停)caused by severe ______temperature as his body temperature dropped below 19°C on January 6. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team _____ Max’s raised alarm and went to investigate, armed with warm _____ and snacks. Around 20 minutes up Hall’s Fell, two responders discovered Tommy’s survival _____ empty. They continued to find him lying face ______further up the trail and unresponsive. They found the man was _____ to all appearances. But they did all they could to treat Tommy. Along with a team doctor, they _____ him to a hospital in Newcastle. Five days later he _____, asking what had happened and wanting a glass of coke.

Tommy has made a good ____, but he has severe nerve damage in his hands and feet. He is now running the London Marathon in October to_____ money for Keswick Mountain Rescue and the team who saved his life. He thanked his _____very much. He said, “If it weren’t for Max getting down the_____ and getting MRT to me as soon as possible, who knows if I’d be here today. ”

The rescuers have ______ daring runners to always pack spare clothes and a survival bag if running in extreme conditions-calling it a _______of life or death.

2 . A craftsman living with a disability who makes clay figurines (泥雕) has recently made netizens amazed across the country.

In 2003, Mi _________ his hands in a crash. Unwilling to _________ to fate, he gradually learned to eat and get dressed in the year that followed the unexpected _________. After seeing a craftsman making figurines on the street, Mi was attracted to the craft and without _________ decided to learn from him. “The craftsman said he, couldn’t _________ me when he saw that I had no fingers. I _________ and finally wore him down,” Mi said.

The learning process was _________. In the beginning he could only make two roses in an afternoon. And his arms were often _________ after the practice. However, because of his _________ for the craft and his eagerness to earn a living, he never thought about __________. Mi has been making these clay figurines for 15 years. It now __________, him only several minutes to make a figurine. After __________ clay into a ball with his elbows, Mi holds the ball between his arms to put it on a stick, and then adds smaller parts and __________ to the ball.

Mi is not only able to make a __________ by making clay figurines as he had hoped, but he feels __________ about what he does. He doesn’t set prices for his figurines. __________ asking people to give a certain amount of money for the products, he allows them to __________ as they like. In this way, each figurine is sold at about 20 yuan on average, which is cheaper compared to __________ products sold elsewhere.

Mi’s story tells us that we may have __________ no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right __________, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

3 . In 2019 my son, Ollie, seven, had severe liver failure. In Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, liver transplantation was _______ performed for Ollie. The _______ became our world for the next two months as Ollie fought his way back to health. _______, the doctors said he could come home with Christmas around the corner. I was _______ by Make-A-Wish Foundation offering to grant a wish for Ollie. It was just what he_______. He would love to surf with Mick Fanning, a champion surfer who was Ollie’s hero.

Six weeks before Christmas, I received a call telling me Mick _______ to surf with Ollie. Mick had even _______ a video message for Ollie saying he was looking forward to meeting him. In June this year, Make-A-Wish Foundation _______ us all to Queensland. As we made our way to Green Mount Beach, Ollie was _______.

Finally arriving at the ________, we saw Mick standing on the sand looking out at the ocean. “Hey, Ollie,” Mick said, smiling and relieving him. Mick said, “Let’s catch some ________.” For an hour Mick made sure other surfers gave ________ to Ollie as he pushed himself on to wave after wave. “That was ________,” Ollie said to Mick afterwards.

As we were about to say goodbye, Mick had other________, In the surf shop, he ________Ollie to a wetsuit and anything else he wanted. The kid hugged him tight, not wanting to let him ________.

Ollie is 10 now and ________ well. Mick’s ________ was Ollie’s all-time best Christmas present. But for me, seeing my son ________ , happy and healthy, is the ultimate Christmas gift I couldn’t ________ more.

7 . A Virginia third-grader has won two national awards for her exceptional skill in handwriting. That’s pretty remarkable on its own. But what makes the girl’s _________ extra special is that she accomplished it _________ having no hands.

On April 26, 9-year-old Anaya Ellick was named the _________ of the 2018 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. The award _________ students with special needs who develop a great skill in handwriting. All participants have a mental or physical _________.

Anaya was born without hands on either arm. _________ she was fitted with prosthetics (假肢) for a time, she decided she was better off with her _________ ones and removed them. Instead, she has learned to _________ a pencil between her arms to draw and write. Two years ago, she made _________ across the world when she was named a winner in the contest’s print category. For 2018, she __________ again for her cursive writing.

Tracy Cox, Anaya’s teacher, said Anaya is a role __________ to other students. “Anaya does not let anything stand in her __________ of reaching her goals,” said Cox. “She is determined and independent. She has the best __________ in her class. Her classmates see her doing the __________ tasks and they are often __________ that she can do just as well, sometimes even better.” Anaya’s dad Gary Ellick said Anaya had always been __________. “It was always like ‘I can do it.’ I’m proud to see that hard work does __________,” he said.

Anaya was __________ at school on Wednesday, and the school shared photos of her with her new award and examples of her writing. But another __________ doesn’t mean she’s slowing down. When asked what’s __________ on her plate, she said, “Sports.”

8 . Kyle Messier, a 31-year-old bike rider, won a 100-kilometer bike race that took place in Harrington, Quebec. While this is a(n) ________ achievement on its own, what makes Kyle extraordinary is that he had already ________ more than 650 kilometers to the race site.

His ________ from Waterloo to Harrington took him 3.5 days to complete. After his win, he ________ with some pizza, slept for a few hours in his ________, and then rode another 3.5-day back home. What becomes greater is that Kyle ________ to win the race while suffering from a toothache.

So what is the ________ behind Kyle’s success? He apparently ________ a technique known as active meditation to help him. This form of thinking can be done while ________ a physical action, which makes it perfect for cycling. When done ________, the mind will only concentrate on completing that physical action and nothing else.

Kyle has also trained himself to ________ the journey into smaller sections. He tried to ________ the positives he was looking forward to rather than the negatives. ________ the race, he just thought about the pizza he was getting at the finish line. Despite his great achievement, Kyle remains ________. He claims not to know how long the course ________ him to complete, as he didn’t even bother checking his finish time. ________, he simply stayed at the finish line to cheer on other riders.

Kyle’s incredible victory shows the ________ of having the right mind. The next time you face a seemingly impossible ________, try breaking it up into smaller sections, only focusing on the ________ things you have to look forward to. You may not get results that are quite as outstanding as Kyle’s, but it will certainly ________ you!

9 . I always think of my mother’s love for me. When I was little, my mom always went to the store on Saturday mornings. My sisters and I would wake up to _______ five little plates of powdered donuts (甜甜圈), one for each of us.

One Saturday morning, I woke up _______ than the rest of the children. Being the _______ , fat, little man that I was, I quickly finished my plate and _______ more. My mom told me that I could have the others as long as I finished them all and _______ the evidence. We promised it would be our _______ . So that morning, while the other children _______ , I got up to spend all morning with the _______ of the donuts and all of my mom’s _______ .

I am not ________ when I say that I woke myself up early every Saturday from age seven to twelve, eating all the donuts I wanted and getting ________ with my mom all to myself. We ate donuts, watched cartoons, played childish ________ , the matching game, for example, and read books — just the two of us.

When I was twenty-seven, I ________ this to my sisters, sure that my mom had told them at some ________ in later years. Though well into their thirties, they were ________ . They had always ________ what happened to all those donuts and why I was always up so early. My mom had never ________ the secret!

The donuts were tasty, but they were ________ just an excuse. I woke up early not because, as the youngest of five, I didn’t have to ________ donuts. I did it because, for a little while, I didn’t have to share my ________ .