1 . An 11-year-old boy from Nigeria impressed the world with an online video of his ballet dancing in the rain. Then something_________followed.

Madu is one of the 12 students of a dance school. Daniel, the school founder, is teaching children for free and hopes to “change some commonly held_________about ballet.”

Gracefully spinning among a group of girl dancers, Madu_________. While his mom wanted him to become a priest (牧师), the boy pushes himself hard to be what he_________to be.

“I love dancing and it gives me a great feeling. People think ballet is only for girls, but I want people to_________that a boy could do the same,” Madu said.

The video of Madu_________his ballet skills in the downpour got _________from millions including Mrs. Harvey, director from a top US dance school, who decided to_________.

She_________Madu with a full scholarship to her school and offered Daniel an online course for free to ____________his teaching.

Both Madu and his teacher went____________at the surprise! “Sorry for disappointing mom. I love the ____________but not the prayer and I’ll never give it up,” the boy____________.

____________，when you nourish (滋养) your dream with love and____________, opportunities will find their own way.

3 . Never Too Old To Be Young Again

A winter storm threw inches of snow in the mountains of my home. Schools were ________, roads were blocked and all I wanted was to stay in bed. However, I knew I had to get the day started, so I got up and ________ outside. The snow was over my shoes. The ________ wind was chapping (使干裂) my lips. My back ________ when I thought I had to clean the snow.

But when I looked on the ________ that covered the ground, I couldn’t ________ but smile. It was so beautiful. In the distance, I could hear the sound of the snow plow (破裂) on the road, the barking of a ________ dog and the laughter of children ________ their day off from school.

The sweet music of laughter brought back ________ of winters past. I remembered catching snowflakes on my tongue, making snow angels,________ down hills and losing the snowball fights with first my brothers and then my children. Standing there in a warm coat of remembering made the wind less cold and my back less ached. I ________ my head, stuck out my tongue and for the first time in years caught a ________ on it. It tasted like ________, like joy and like love. I thanked God for all of my memories and for the simple truth that you are never too old to be young again.

May you always feel young no matter how ________ you are. May you always be delighted in simple joys of life. May you always enjoy your happiness. And may you always ________ your love, laughter and warmth onto others.

4 . My job is to help clients find jobs and return to school for training. One day, a lady came to my office with a dream to become a registered nurse. However, her family did not _________. With young children to care for and her husband unemployed, she simply didn’t have the _________ to return to school.

It was clear that this lady had a(n) _________ for the nursing profession, so I encouraged her to realize her dream. I _________ her with necessary information to apply for nursing school. She left my office, and I never _______ whether she followed her dream or not.

Many years later, I was diagnosed(诊断) with breast cancer. I was _________ to hospital. The surgery was successful. It was, _________, very painful. Though I _________ myself on not being a bell ringer, one night the pain was so _________ that I had to call for a nurse. I rang the bell and waited for __________. A nurse came through the door and offered to help. I __________ thanked her for coming to my rescue. I said, “I am not usually like this.”

To my __________, she said, “Oh, I know that, Mrs. Bryenton.” It __________ that she was just the lady who I had encouraged to follow her dream years before. She subsequently(随后)returned to school for upgrading and later ________ nursing.

You never know what __________ your encouraging words will have on someone. It is amazing that many of my clients would __________ to say thanks to me. To this day, I am still ______________ by strangers in the street and reminded that I was instrumental(起重要作用) in __________ their life.

I truly believe we make a __________ by what we get, but we make a wonderful life by what we __________.

6 . My father and I disagreed about curfew (晚间回家的时间). I told him it made me ______ like a junior - high kid. He explained that ______ a curfew might sound like a restriction (限制), it’s really about people looking out for one another.

The very next Friday after that pretty heated ______, my dad and I had tickets to see our town’s professional football game. On that day he was ______ to a nearby city to meet with some major clients (客户) and ______ me that his getting home and our leaving for the game would be tight (紧的). So I got everything prepared ______. But nearly an hour passed, I was getting a little ______. We were going to miss the kick-off! And why hadn’t he ______ me and let me know he was going to be really late? Then another half hour passed. Now we were going to ______ the whole game! Another half hour passed, my anger turned to ______. What if something terrible had happened to my dad? And I began to really worry.

Finally, the phone rang, and my dad said ______, “Son, I’m so sorry, but… there was a terrible accident… on the freeway, and I ______ to help...and ______ going to the hospital. I left my cellphone in the car…”

I was so ______ to hear that he was safe that I actually cried. That was when I got the importance of a curfew: Checking in! It’s about knowing that someone you love is ______. It was one more proof (证明) of my father’s loving me as much as he does.

8 . The second-hand car that I bought just three months ago wouldn’t start the other day. The factory battery that came along with it showed that it had worked long enough to “face death”. My kind-hearted neighbor gave it a try, but the battery wouldn’t hold the charge. After giving another try, I headed to the local car store to buy a new one. Fixing it was more difficult than we thought, so I took it to a local repairman who finally got the new battery in and the car started running once again.

Driving it this morning, though, I noticed that the time on the screen had suddenly gone back to nine years, resetting to the date of the first time when it was started. While my son smartly found out how to program it back to today, I thought about how I had wished I could turn back time and make up for some of the errors I had made and the missteps I had taken in my own life during my boyhood time.

How many of us wish that we could go back to a certain time and change things? Like most middle-aged fathers, I have ever wished that. Yet, when I look back on my life today, I think that I won’t change anything. Every choice I have made, every step I have taken, and every road I have taken has led me to where I am now. Many of my choices have brought me pain in the past, but they have also guided me in the present. I won’t want to change things as they will change me. All that I have learned comes from the roads I have taken.

When you look at your own life, you can remember your past sadness, bout don’t regret the roads you took. Instead, celebrate the path you are on. Keep your feet moving forward.

On the course of life, the first step of the lead is likely to mean the final victory, so the success and failure, or gain and loss of your life may lie in _______ you dare to show yourself or not.

As a student, I was most _______ to answer questions in class, and I found that the students around were just like me. At the beginning of each class, when the professor asked a question, I always _______ my head, for fear that the professor saw me.

In a foreign language class, an expert from the Commercial Bank delivered a lecture. The speaker always wanted _______ to be in communication with him, so he asked how many students in the classroom learned Economics, but no one _______. The expert said with a smile, “Let me tell you a story first.”

“When I came to the United States to study, there are often lectures delivered in the _______. Each time, they invite an expert from Wall Street or a transnational company to make a speech.”

“Before the beginning of every lecture, I found a(n) _______ phenomenon (现象). The students around me always took a cardboard folded in half, wrote their _______ with the most eye-catching color, and then placed it on the seat. Thus, when the speaker needed the response, he could see and call a listener’s name _______.”

“I couldn’t ________ why they did that, so I asked the student in front of me. He told me with a smile, ‘the speakers are all top-ranking people, who ________ chances. When your answer is to his satisfaction or surprise, it is very possible that he will give you more ________.   This is a very simple reason.’”

“The fact was also like that. I really saw a few students around me went to work in the first class company ________ their excellent insights (洞察力). This had a great influence on me. The chance will not find you ________. You must show yourself constantly to ________ others’ attention for you to find a chance on the cards.”

10 . Life teaches us that to believe in ourselves means strength in our legs. One summer Sunday I travelled with my two daughters to a _________ to play. We brought an inflatable (可充气的) boat, thinking this would _________ a really fun day. And so it did. But later the younger one got _________ with too much sun. So I took her to have a rest while my older daughter _________ to play in the boat.

I _________ spent too much time with my younger daughter and didn’t notice what was going on in the water. But as I looked, I became _________ as I saw the little boat with my older daughter in it had moved far away from the shore. I called to her to _________ closer to the shore and she seemed to be _________ and doing all she could to return. But her little arms were too short to _________ into the water. All she could do was paddle (拨水) hard to one side and was just making small circles.

I walked as far into the water as I could telling her what she should do but with __________. Then I swam until I could __________ feel that I had legs. But I just kept an eye on her and believed I was able to __________ my daughter. I saw my hand catching the side of that small boat. On the way back I was __________ the boat and calming her down.

We __________ it back to the shore and my life was forever changed by that experience. I learned that if we can trust ourselves, we’ll have all the __________ we need.