1 . My friend Michelle is blind, but you'd never know it. She makes such good use of her other 4_______,including her “sixth sense”, that she rarely gives the impression she's _______ anything.

Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, _______ that she doesn't push too hard on them,_______really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude.She knows when to clean the house; she moves around so fast that often _______ don't realize she's blind.

I _______this the first time after my six­year­old daughter, Kayla, went to play there.When Kayla came home, she was very _______ about her day.She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects.But she was _______ excited about her finger­painting project.

“Mom, guess what？”said Kayla, all smiles “I learned how to _______ colors today! Blue and red make purple,and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle ________ with us.”

To my great ________,my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!

Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my ________ showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really ________ what I was doing！”Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt ________ Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.

I realized Kayla didn't know that Michelle was blind.It had just never ________ in conversation.

When I told her, she was ________ for a moment. At first, she didn't believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture！”Kayla ________ . And I knew my child was ________ because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork.Michelle had also heard Kayla's ________ in her work.

We were silent for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did see my picture. She just used my __________”

Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.

2 . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that over 50,000 people every year sustain some sort of winter-related back injury，and 5，800 of those are holiday decorating- ____. These aches and pains can   ____ bring trouble to people’s life. It is said that people’s back could sustain all sorts of strain from carrying heavy   ____，and from the increased stress of lugging suitcases, decorations and gifts. Dr. Alanna Levine spoke to Debbye Turner Bell on “The Early Show” about how to   ____ the back for the holiday season.

The first   ____ Dr. Levine gave was about carrying heavy shopping bags. Smaller bags, she said, are better. “You don’t want to load everything up into one bag and lug it around,” Dr. Levine explained. “You want to   ____ the weight on your body. ” She also   ____ putting heavier items towards the bottom in those bags and lighter items on top. Also, if you can, make frequent trips to the car to drop     ____ purchases.

____ can be another pain in the back—from carrying heavy luggage. Again, Dr. Levine ____ not to pack everything into one bag. Even though it may cost more, she said that packing two smaller bags is safer than packing a heavy one. Also, choose a lightweight bag, so that the only weight you’re carrying is the   ____ inside the suitcase.

When unloading bags from an airport baggage claim, Dr. Levine suggested standing   ____ to the carousel (圆盘传送带) and bending your knees to lift it up. “You want to avoid that reach-and-lift. It puts a(n)   ____ on your lower back,” she said.

When it   ____ holiday decorating, people take more   ____. Dr. Levine suggested decorating in pairs, so that one person can hand the lights and ornaments to the other person to hang, thus avoiding reaching or twisting to get what you need.

3 . What will man be like in the future — in 5,000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make _____, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly _____ all the time.

Let us take an obvious _____. Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, man is about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may _____ that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity (能力). As time goes on, _____, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and _____ we shall need larger ones! This is likely to _____ a physical change to the head, and in particular the forehead, which will grow larger.

Nowadays our eyes are in _____ use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become _____ and we have to wear a pair of glasses. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man’s eyes will grow stronger.

On the other hand, we have a (n) ______ to make less use of our arms and legs. They, ______, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive ______ they are used a great deal in modern life.

Another we are ______ about is our hair. This will ______ from the body altogether in the course of time because it does not ______ a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald (秃顶的).

Perhaps all this gives the ______ that future man will not be a very ______ creature to look at! This may well he true. All the same, ______ all these changes, future man will still have a lot in ______ with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and ______ similar to our own.

4 . Did The Earth Move For You?

Eleven-year-old Angela suffered from a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to________and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold out much _______of her ever recovering from this illness. They ________she‟d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that ______, if any, were able to come back to normal after catching this disease. But the little girl was brave and confident. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would ______to anyone who‟d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

She was then sent to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies(治疗方法) could be ________to her case were used. Things didn‟t work as the therapists expected. Still they were charmed by her _________spirit. They taught her about ____________—   about   seeing   herself   walking.   If   it   would   do   nothing   else,   it   would ______give her hope and something _______to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. And she worked just as hard lying there ______doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was twisting with all her _____to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though a _____thing happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She _________out, “Look what I‟m doing! Look! Look! I _________it! I moved!”

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running   for ______. People   were   screaming,   equipment   was _______and   glass   was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. But don‟t tell that to Angela. She‟s _________that she did   it. And now only a   few years   later, she‟s back   in school.

______her own two legs. No crutches(拐杖), no wheelchair. You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a little disease. You never know what‟s around the corner until you take a _________step.

5 . Jayce began noticing when he was in kindergarten that he looked different from his classmates. They had two arms. He had one.

It started when one boy ______ him, said his mother, Lewis. He’d return to his home with questions: “Why am I ______? Why me? His mother recalled he was actually mad at God for making him that way and that it was a heavy ______ to his heart.

Lewis ______ she didn’t know what to do at that point. A few weeks later, Lewis turned on the TV to a news story about an eighth grader, Trashaun, becoming an Internet hit after ______ videos of his slam dunks (灌篮), and, like Jayce, he ______ most of his left arm. Lewis called Jayce in. To her surprise, Jayce was immediately ______. At the time, it seemed that watching Trashaun was ______ an inspiring moment for Jayce—he saw a role model with a similar ______. If it had stayed just that, Lewis would have been happy enough. But little did she know that a family friend had already ______ to the newspaper to help set up a ______ with Trashaun to build Jayce’s confidence.

The boys met and instantly ______ with each other as both of them were in the same condition. They rode bikes, took photos, and shot basketball on the court. Instead of spending the whole day feeling ______ for themselves, they had a lot of fun. However, Trashaun did get ______ with Jayce sometimes. They talked about his left arm. He told Jayce he was perfect the way God made him. He also told him not to let anyone ______ him and not to let those words shake his ______.

Since that meeting, Lewis has seen a noticeable ______ in her son. As for Trashaun, his relationship with Jayce made him ______ to help more kids. “Honestly, it ______ a lot to know that I changed Jayce’s life,” Trashaun says. Still, he never dreamed that his ______ would have such an impact. “I just thought my friends would see them, and be like, ‘Oh, he dunked it!’”

He certainly did.

6 . Much meaning can be carried clearly, with our eyes, so it is often _____that eyes can speak.

Do you have such kind of _____? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he ____ that he is being looked at, he may feel uncomfortable. The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is ____ wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel ____ toward the person who is looking at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

Looking too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are different. If a man looks at a woman for more than 10 seconds ,it may mean that he wishes to attract（吸引）her attention, to make her understand that he _____ her. When two people are in a conversation, the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, ____ make sure that the listener does pay attention ______what he or she is speaking. Lovers will enjoy looking at each other or being looked at for a long time, to show something that ____ cannot express.

Clearly, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the place ____ you stay.

7 . With great beauty comes great pain. Lauren Lovette is one of the New York City Ballet’s lead dancers. And her ______ are killing her. She has injured them many times. She had an operation to ____ a bone abnormality. ______, even with daily ankle exercises, ice baths and soft creams, the 25-year-old still hasn’t made ______ with her feet.

Lovette ______ this struggle with many dancers. Their feet are seriously ______. They may ____, jump, leap and turn around like any NBA basketball star, but they do it without any foot-comfort features ______ shock absorption (减震). Most athletes get to wear shoes that are ____ of their feet, but not dancers.

Dancers ______ around the stage barefoot, in heels or in thin slippers (软鞋). Or, if they’re ballet dancers, they wear tight-fitting pointe shoes (芭蕾舞鞋). Pointe shoes may look ______, but there’s a seriousness to their purpose: helping the dancer do what no human is ______ to do.

“Generally, dancers are just as ______ as football players, ______ not stronger,” says Lisa M. Schoene, a Chicago ______. She’s also an athletic trainer who treats dancers and Olympians. Ballet dancers must ______ all of their weight on the tiniest tips of their toes, known as dancing “en pointe” (足尖舞). “______ on pointe is one of the most athletic things you can do,” Schoene says, “The feet are holding 10 to 12 times of the body weight, going up and down on that pointe shoe.”

____ a ballet dancer treats her feet is important. And it’s true for any of us. Our footwear is an essential tool no matter what we do. “Some shoes, ______ too often, can cause more pressure than pointe shoes,” the doctor ______. Wearing long lip-flops (人字拖鞋), high heels and what few dancers would ever wear outside the studio---ballet flats, does more harm than good.