1 . After realizing students at his elementary school were going hungry at home. PE teacher Jason Watson got a wave of inspiration and a cool set of wheels.

Jason and his wife, school librarian Anne, bought a used ice-cream truck, and for the past two summers, the couple, both 39, have delivered hot homecooked lunches and icy treats to kids in need in their 1, 300-person town of Frazeysburg, Ohio, with the help of their own kids.

It all started back in 2016 when the pair started AIM Outreach, an extracurricular pro- gram for kids that included free lunches. When the tough time came in 2020, their in-person outreach was paused indefinitely. So one day Jason asked a local ice cream truck owner if he’d drive the family around to hand out free treats. What he got was something more.

“He just fell so in love with our community and what we were doing that he offered one of his ice cream trucks to us, ”Jason says. The couple purchased the truck in October, 2020 and have been hard at work since.

The family cooks all the meals themselves from scratch, posting on social media the dates and times when they will be delivering. They serve about 70 meals a week in the summer time. To date, they estimate they’ve served about 1, 500 lunches from the truck.

The couple launched a GoFundMe in June, 2022 when the truck needed both a new trans- mission and a new engine. They raised more than $ 10. 000, They’ve been blown away by the outpouring of donations.

“And we’ve been inspired to do more, ”says Anne. “Our dream is to possibly open a free cafe where we invite people to sit and have a hot dinner. Then we can sit down and share life together. That’s kind of our vision going ahead. ”

2 . For most, cross-country is an individual sport. But for Susan and Jeffrey, teamwork makes the dream ________.

Jeffrey, now 15, ________ cerebral palsy (脑瘫)at 22 months old due to heart rhythm disorder. Because of lack of oxygen, it also ________ damage to his brain. For his younger sister Susan, 14, Jeffrey is the one she loves. The two are very ________. When both of them registered at high school, she wanted to ________ a sport after school. She ________ cross-country would be a great sport not just for her, but also for her brother. “We like spending time together, and this is a(n) ________ we can spend time together after school.” Susan said, “It’s something he couldn’t do on his own, so in this way we can be ________ and do a sport together.”

Susan ________ Jeffrey in a wheelchair at every single practice. She said her brother’s ________ attitude helped her ________ the difficult training. Jeffrey’s positive attitude not only helped his sister, but all of his cross-country ________. Susan said at first, people were ________ around her brother and didn’t know what to do or how to act. But after getting to ________ Jeffrey, they accepted him and even took turns pushing him at practice.

But according to the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association’s ________ the siblings (兄妹)are only ________ to compete as exhibition runners, and their results do not ________. With the coaches, athletic directors and other runners’ support, the rules are changed. ________ their dream comes true.

“We felt glad to have ________ the way for runners that want to run with someone who can’t take part by themselves and make them have ________ access to sporting events,” Susan said.

5 . When Nathan Johnston was younger, people told him he was “dreaming” when he talked about starting his own business. The 27-year-old lives with cerebral palsy (脑瘫), uses a wheelchair and cannot read or write. “All those hurtful things said to me by several different people drive me to where I’m right now,” Mr Johnston said. “They made me a bit angry-but they made me more determined.

On International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD), his dream will become a reality. Working from his dining room table, he created a fully accessible social media platform called Disability Club. Mr Johnston entered his concept for Disability Club in an innovation competition and was awarded a $10,000 grant. Mr Johnston admitted he was “shocked” at the support he had received for Disability Club.

“First I want to get everyone in Australia on board, whether it’s free members or corporate members, and then I want to take it international,” he said. Along with Disability Club, Mr Johnston has also developed a music streaming platform, DME3, for musicians with disability.

Mr Johnston said it was important on IDPwD that every day he and other people with disability were treated like everyone else. “It makes me feel quite proud and warm inside to know I’m getting treated equally,” he said. “I’m excited for the future and feel like there are bigger things to come. No matter what your dreams are, no matter what capabilities you have got, if you’ve got the support of your family and friends in whatever you do, then you can do it.”

The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled (攀登) the     1     (high) peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest.

“No matter if you’re     2     (serious) disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter as long as you have     3     strong mind. You can always complete a thing that other people say you can’t,” Zhang said.

Born in southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Zhang lost his sight at the age of 21. He     4     (inspire) by Erik Weihenmayer, a blind American mountaineer     5     scaled Everest in 2001, and began training     6     the help of his mountain guide friend Qiang Zi.

Eventually, Zhang     7     (complete) the 8,849-meter-high Himalayan feat (壮举) on May 24, 2021 along with three mountain     8     (guide), and returned to the base camp on Thursday, May 27.

“I was still very scared, because I couldn’t see where I was walking at that time. I had no ability     9     (balance) myself, either. So sometimes I would fall,” said Zhang. “But I kept     10     (reflect) because even though it was hard, I had to face those difficulties. This is one component of climbing. There are difficulties and dangers and this is the meaning of climbing.”

7 . In 2009, Fletcher was hit by a woman who was texting while driving. His car ______ two times after being run off the road. That accident left him with a broken neck and caused him to become paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the chest down.

However, it has never stopped him from ______ life to the fullest. He has ______ to many destinations in America and even abroad.

In 2019, he ______ a book about his life, started a non-profit organization, and launched (开设) a brand new YouTube channel to ______ his travels.

______, he likes traveling very much. He ______ more on destinations that he had always wanted to ______ and picked back up with the international traveling in 2020.

He went to Vegas, Chicago, and San Diego with his friends and family. He has ______ a plane, swum with dolphins and partied up on board. This man is truly living his best life. “It’s ______ because when I was on these trips, people would ______ me and tell me what a(n) ______ I am to them,” Fletcher said.

As a way to ______ even more people, Fletcher’s new YouTube channel will serve as a means to ______ others on how traveling in a wheelchair really is. “My channel will ______ my everyday life of being paralyzed as well as how I fly and get around when I travel,” he said.

The most ______ thing for people is to see that traveling can be done even with ______. He’ll introduce the details of how he selects hotels and destinations that are ______ to those in similar situations.

“Just being paralyzed doesn’t mean you could stop ______,” Fletcher explained. “I’m just having ______ and enjoying life.”

As his motto says, “Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way.”

It was a hot summer day. My mum     1     (hold) a small note and waving at every taxi that passed along the Suzhou road. We had come here by train     2     Shanghai to visit the classical gardens. But now we had already been standing by this road for over     3     hour. We needed to go to the station to catch     4     (we) train to Shanghai and had asked a local shopkeeper to write down the name of the station for the driver to understand. But every driver who stopped to examine the note drove off without     5     (say) a word. There we were, helpless and     6     (lose) in China.

Luckily, a young lady walked over and found out that the paper only said “xièxiè” —Chinese for “Thank you”. No wonder no one would take us. We     7     (sudden) realized that my father had repeatedly asked the shopkeeper to “write this down, please. Thank you! Thank you!” Apparently, he had assumed us funny foreigners     8     wanted to know the word for “thanks” in Chinese. That explained the     9     (puzzle) expression on the taxi drivers’     10     (face) as they just read “thank you” on the note. Thanks to the help of the passer-by, we were eventually able to catch the train.