Tanni was born with an illness, 【小题1】 made her unable to move her muscles normally. Tanni was interested 【小题2】 sports, but when she was growing up she didn’t see many disabled athletes on television. Then several years later, while watching the London wheelchair marathon, she saw an athlete she knew. She dreamed that she would be on the starting line, competing in the marathon too. Finally, her dream 【小题3】 (come) true. She was not only on the starting line, but also the winner at the finish line. Tanni believes you’ll never know 【小题4】 you can do unless you try.

I was waiting for a phone call from my agent (代理人), 【小题1】 had left a message the night before, which told me that my show was to be cancelled (取消). I called him several times, but each time his secretary told me that he was at a meeting and that he 【小题2】 (call) me soon. Three hours passing by, I became more and more impatient. I was certain that my agent didn’t care about my research, which was about an 【小题3】 (innovate) in information technology. I started to shout at the phone, “Let me wait, will you? Who do you think you are?”

Without showing her surprise, my wife rushed in, seized the phone, tore off the wires, and shouted at the phone, “Yeah! Who do you think you are? Bad telephone!” And she swept it into the wastebasket.

She stepped to the doorway and shouted at the wall of the house, “Now hear this! All objects in this room —if you do anything that upsets my husband, out you go!” I couldn’t help get a load 【小题4】 her.

Then she turned to me, kissed me and said calmly, “Honey, it is 【小题5】 (essence) for you to learn how to take control. I am to 【小题6】 (pick) our child up from the school.” With that, she left the room.

After watching a crazy woman rushing in and out, shouting at everything in sight, it is amazing that something in my mood had changed. I felt so 【小题7】 (embarrass) and I was willing to accept her blame. I was intensely aware of her purpose. Her actions 【小题8】 words did the trick. I admitted not 【小题9】 (deal) with the case 【小题10】 (proper). Her unusual actions helped me realize I had been driven crazy by small things. Twenty minutes later my agent did call eventually.