Christopher Reeve was born in September, 1952. He was in his first school play 【小题1】 he was eight and he started to act in TV shows and films while he was still in college. He made many 【小题2】 (success) films and TV shows but he is most famous 【小题3】 his Superman films. 【小题4】 (lucky), disaster (灾难) came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and 【小题5】 (break) his back. The doctors did not expect him to live. However, he made 【小题6】 (amaze) progress. At first, he couldn’t breathe without a machine, but he learnt to breathe on 【小题7】 (he) own. He would never walk again but he started 【小题8】 new life with great courage. The second year after his accident, Christopher returned to film making. He also raised a lot of money 【小题9】 (promote) medical research into back injuries. He made speeches all over the USA about his experiences. This not only drew public attention to research into back injuries but also encouraged a lot of people 【小题10】 (live) with all kinds of problems.

I was wandering into the small store, when the store owner received a call from a customer. The customer and his wife had shopped there several months before. When noticing that his wife really liked one thing in the store, he wanted to buy it as a surprise. Because time was limited, out 【小题1】 (go) the couple without buying it. It was not until several months later that the customer wanted to buy it.

But the customer was in Tennessee, living far away from the store which was in Maine. What was more, he had been to the store several months before, and it was difficult to believe that the store owner would remember him, or 【小题2】 it was that he was referring to. There were 【小题3】 (diversity) goods in the store. The customer’s question was whether she could do it. She said yes. The store owner advised him to describe the thing for her and so he did.

【小题4】 (inform) what the thing was like, the store owner took a few close-up photos with her camera, and e-mailed them to the customer. Having received the photos, then the customer decided which one was the very thing.

Then the customer said, “Now it is time we discussed a price over the phone.” Apart 【小题5】 discussing the price, they also decided the time to send it. Then she took care of the credit card transaction(交易) online, and the customer proposed the gift 【小题6】 (send) that afternoon. Then the agreement was reached. The customer said. “I live far away from your place now. 【小题7】, I would get it myself.”

The store owner was really smart. She wasn’t necessarily 【小题8】 (talent) for new technology but she was willing to push herself to find new ways to make the transaction (交易) actually happen. It was not a dramatic thing. It was the first time she had ever done it. Never before had she done such a thing.

【小题9】 difficult it was, the store owner discovered a creative solution 【小题10】 (contribute) to a new way of doing business. In my view, we should realize that challenge and opportunity go hand in hand.

Last year when Tom graduated from school, he came to Sydney. He didn’t like to work on his father’s farm and hoped 【小题1】(find) a job in a big city. He went from one company to 【小题2】 but no one wanted him. With little money 【小题3】(leave), he got to the station, sad and 【小题4】 (tire). All he wanted to do was go back to his small town. It was very late at night and the station was full of people. They were waiting to buy tickets of 【小题5】 last train. He bought the last ticket, and he was very happy.

At that time, a woman with a 【小题6】(cry) baby walked to him and asked him to sell her the ticket. He gave her the ticket because he thought they needed it more than he 【小题7】(do). After the train left, he sat on the bench and didn’t know where to go. 【小题8】(sudden), an old man came and said, “Young man, I have seen 【小题9】 you did to the woman. I am the 【小题10】(own) of a big company. I need a good young man like you. Would you like to work for me?”