1 . I’ve always been very sporty, even when pregnant with my four children. But when my third child George was born, everything _______. As a very _______ baby, he was always on the go and never slept. I still kept _______, but when he turned two, he started to have some _______ problems. One night we took him to hospital, and within 12 hours we were told he had _______ cancer of the white blood cells. It was his third birthday.

Our lives _______. We were taken by ambulance to Birmingham hospital and my husband Rich and I _______ to spend three days with him and three days with our kids at home. After about a month, Rich _______ me my running shoes. I looked at them, _______ He said: “George is ________, he’s with a nurse. I think you need to go for a run.” I remember putting them on and ________   as I ran on the road, as fast as I could for 25 minutes, which was such a(n) ________.

When George was on the road to ________, I needed to re-find my identity and earn some money. I couldn’t ________full-time as he was always going to need a lot of ________, so I decided to become a personal trainer. We built a ________ in the garden and now I train groups of women running there.

I also ________ in obstacle course races (OCR) and won the Spartan world champion. The thing that ________ me is the memory of George at rock bottom; I want all my kids to see that you can never ________. You just need motivation and passion. Just like my’ story-when George had cancer, exercise helped me cope with the difficulty and gave me a new ________.

2 . Once there was a farmer with a wife and two sons. He became quite________through hardworking. He wanted his children to have a(n)________life, so he and his wife did all the work and________made them do anything.

After some time, his wife died and________he didn’t want his children to________, so he did the field labor and all the housework. But as time went on, he became old and________, and started to worry about his________when he died.

So he thought about this for a long time and he________his sons and said, “Look, my inheritance (遗产) to you is a lot of gold. I’ve________all my gold in the fields, so it’s up to you to plough (耕作) them and________the gold.”

And he called his neighbors and said, “I’m going to________and my children don’t know how to________themselves. So please cook for them until they can take care of themselves.”

So the neighbors provided them with________for some time.

Certainly the brothers didn’t want to be robbed of the________so they did the digging themselves. They________one field after another and after they had dug all the fields, they found no gold.

So the brothers sat down and one________the other, “Do you think our father________us?”

But the other brother said, “No, I think our father was saying that the________is a golden profession. And if we dig up all the________we can become rich.”

So like all the other________, they sowed wheat in the fields they had dug and became very rich in the end.