Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success ________ fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the ________ in our lives.

When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no ________ of knowing that his life was to change ________ . The class experiment that day was to ________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling（冒泡）to the surface. ________ , the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat ________ held something more volatile（易挥发的）than water. When Wilson heated it, the container ________ , leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.

When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents ________ to find a way to deal with the disaster that had ________ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as ________ . He learned braille（盲文）quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became an accomplished public speaker.

Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from blindness for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to ________ his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it could be ________ so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the commitment Wilson made to preventing the preventable.

Wilson received several international awards for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a ________ . He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ________our lives — it’s what we make of what happens.

The sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning. It was so loud that he _________ it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to investigate, he heard another sound, this one coming most _________ from outside. Watching out of his bedroom window, he saw a tree _________ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree’s base, its engine _________.

“I _________ buckets of water,” said Languell. Then he ran to the crash _________. The car looked worse up close. It was nearly _________ into two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if planted there. No one should have _________ this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his __________ face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible __________. Languell, 35, tried pouring the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the __________ got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he said.

Completely __________ his own safety, Languell opened the car’s back door and __________ in. He cut through Thompson’s seat belt using a __________ he’d had the foresight to bring with him. Now that Thompson was free of the __________, Languell pulled him out of the vehicle, and then __________ the teen to safety just before the entire car was surrounded in flames.

Although Thompson suffered several breakings to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post __________ him as “looking great, smiling, and joking”. Languell thinks about that day often. Displaying the sort of sympathy that __________ him to help, he explained, “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so __________.”

Emma Jones’ three-year-old son, Eric, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Sarah Roth’s swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Eric play around with the other children at this _________ of moms and kids last July. The next moment he disappeared without a _________. She turned to her friend Machel Rawlings and asked, “Have you seen Eric?”

Rawlings stood, _________ the pool and suddenly screamed. Eric was found _________ face down in the deep end. What happened next was a _________ textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, grasped the boy, _________ him over and swam him to the end. Meanwhile, their host, Sarah Roth, dialed 911. At the pool’s _________, Rawlings handed Eric up to his mother. His skin was blue and wasn’t breathing.

Rawlings who’d taken a CPR course just four months earlier, immediately began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who’d accumulated _________ experience before, _________ CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Eric’s mouth and __________ chest compressions (按压) while Rawlings and Jones __________ his condition. Gradually his color __________, and as the ambulance was arriving on the __________, Rawlings looked at Roth. “He’s breathing,” she said.

The __________ with which the women acted saved Eric’s life. Emma Jones found any words seemed powerless. She said __________, “They did everything right.”