1 . I never see myself as a miracle. I was just an_________person with realistic goals and big dreams. I was a 19-year-old student at the university of Texas and well on my way to fulfilling my big dream of becoming an surgeon.

On February 17, 1981, a_________car accident happened to me and after the four hours of operation, I_________. I still could not talk, my entire right side was paralyzed but_________I was stable. After two weeks I improved enough to be_________to a rehabilitation(康复) hospital.

It took me a lot of hard work but I_________returned to the university of Texas in 1983—a year and a half after almost_________. The next few years were very_________for me, but I truly believe that in order to see_________in life you have to experience something bad. Maybe I have experienced too much, but I believe in living each day to the fullest, and doing the very__________I can. And each new day was__________and very full, for__________attending classes at the university I__________ therapy(理疗) three to five days each week at Brackenridge hospital.

Early, during my therapy, my father__________repeating to me one of his favorite sayings. I have repeated it almost everyday after being hurt: “Mile by mile it’s a（n）__________; yard by yard it’s hard; but inch by inch it’s a cinch(容易的事).

I thought of those__________, and I thought of my family who__________believed in me as I climbed the steps to receive my__________from the dean of Liberal Arts at the university of Texas on the graduation ceremony in June of 1986. Excitement and__________filled my heart as I heard the dear announce that I graduated with “highest honors”, and was chosen as one of the most outstanding__________ in the college of Liberal Arts.