2 . As the drumbeat changed, the dress fluttered(翩翩飞舞)in tune with the girl’s changing steps. Finally, she _________the performance in a neat pose onstage before the audience.

The girl _________is actually me. I’ve learned Latin dance since childhood. However, when I became a young girl, conflicts brought by Latin dance made me_________. The fair skin and slim bodies of mainstream beauty stand in contrast to what Latin dance pursues: power and wildness. As a young girl, I am _________for beauty. But a girl like me with strong muscles _________ in a crowd. In addition, _________feelings caused by unkind judgment piled up in my heart. It was so much that I compromised between power and_________

Luckily, in Vienna the match for the Chinese youth team_________my attention, dragging me out of_________.Players from different countries gathered to __________ the honors, and I was no exception. Though I had made my efforts, I was__________to find that I didn’t get the score I expected. The reason, obviously, lay in my__________. With my reduced intake of protein and carbohydrates(碳水化合物), I __________ lost a lot of weight, but at the cost of a sense of pow er and speed in dance.

In between games, I saw a little girl from Europe take firm and powerful steps in the__________. Her beauty came from her full muscles. The confidence in her eyes was__________. Definitely, she won the top prize. __________ her so much, I made her acquaintance and__________my difficult situation. Till now I do remember the confidence that__________me and some of her words: “Just be yourself.”

Looking back, I’m still the dancing girl but my__________has grown lighter. Something within me is __________

4 . A nurse’s attempt to brighten one of her patient’s spirit through music has gone viral.

Alex Collazo is a nurse for Penn Pennington, a 67-year-old longtime musician who is _______ cancer. Doctors told him that he had to stay in the hospital because his condition was _______. Understandably, the man was in low _______ .

Shortly after arriving, the musician--who, for the past 30 years, has _______ at various country bars in downtown Nashville-- _______ 24-year-old Collazo.

“I admitted him to the hospital and we got to _______, so I asked him to tell me something fun about himself. I could tell he was kind of _______,”she said.

Pennington told the nurse about his _______ for skydiving, while Collazo discussed her enthusiasm for music--singing, _______. The two immediately hit it off, and Collazo offered to ________ her guitar for him to play.

On Sunday, Pennington was feeling ________ enough to give it a shot, and the two had a jam session(即兴演奏会). The pair ________ a famous song, as the nurse sang while Pennington played the guitar. The video of their ________, which was shared on Facebook by Pennington’s daughter, has gone viral. The video received more than 6,000 reactions and shares, with some 350,000 ________.

The 67-year-old called the ________an escape. “Any time you go to the hospital for illness, it’s ________ a downer. This was an escape, for a while. It was a ________ thing,” he said. Collazo said she attempted to help Pennington ________ he was in the hospital and enjoy what he was doing.”

This is what people in the ________ field usually do,” she said. “We put ________ into everything.”

5 . The stage lights dimmed, and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly______. It seems that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep ______as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my______, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning this art form, I had______been considered ready to take on the most difficult act. The test is the most important event in a dancer's life, as it pays______to all the factors in one's life that______the dance form: one's culture and family.

The performance is undertaken only by the most______and determined students. It is a difficult process that requires much______. For more than six months, I spent two to three hours every day______these dances. Many times, I______myself to my physical and mental breaking point, but still I would not stop. I could not give up. There was always so much more to do and so much more to______.

I______a lot about myself in those tiring hours. I learned that I was far too______to give up, and I was too proud to prove myself______after I had set an unrealistic goal. Even with physical pain and mental______,   I forced myself to meet my______. Even when I was at the end of my______,     there was always something driving me on, forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately, I made it. What I had done______the success. It was in those hours that I learned what a dancer______is. Those time was evidence that I could______something I set out to do.