It was in my first year of work as a doctor. A woman in her early twenties was brought in after a road traffic accident. The surgeons were ________ to save her life and she died on the table. Ashen-faced, my consultant told her family the ________ I sat with them for some time as they sobbed quietly and when I ________ from the room the consultant was standing outside. "I think it would be nice if it came from you," he said.

I stared ________. "What?" I asked.

"About organ donation," he replied. I ________ hard. Surely this would be the ________ thing they'd want to talk about. It felt acutely awkward and ________ to be considering this kind of conversation while they were being ________ with grief. But the ________ with organ donation is that every minute ________.

I opened the door and sat opposite them, ________ that I was only going to make things worse for them.

"It's what she'd have ________," the mother said before I'd even finished. The father nodded. While I had imagined they might be angry with me for bringing up such a delicate subject in their ________ of grief, in fact they seemed pleased.

"She was always so generous," her father added.

As I left them, it ________ to me that I'd been wrong in thinking it would be an awkward conversation. Nothing could take away the pain of having lost their daughter. Yet this last, final act had comforted them and helped them feel that the spirit of their daughter ________ in this act of generosity.

Our family decided to move to warm South Carolina when my husband Tom retired and put it into action without any delay. The first weeks after ___________in our new house, we waved to neighbors, but aside from quick ___________, we hadn’t really made connections.

We had a community page online. I usually scanned it quickly, but one day a post from a young mother caught my eye. She had something ___________to deal with but couldn’t find a babysitter. As I was ___________then, I typed a message to her and gave her my phone number. She called immediately. “You are a lifesaver!” was the greeting I got when I___________.

She was just two blocks away, so I ___________over to meet her. She opened the door with a 14-month-old in her arms. “This is Macy,” she _________me. She quickly listed some ___________and then rushed out. I spotted a basket filled with toddler (幼童) books. ___________some, I invited Macy to sit with me. What a __________ to find a copy of a classic book I’d read __________. Turning the pages and pointing at the pictures, I recited it from memory and laughed heartily from time to time at Macy’s cute questions. When Macy’s mother was back, I’d had a (n) __________afternoon. Suddenly, an idea struck me: perhaps I could find some children here to care for. Then I brought it up to Tom.

“Have you forgotten that you’re no spring chicken anymore?” he replied. “I want to try,” I told Tom with __________.

That conversation was eight years ago. Since then, I have developed a thriving little business. It’s definitely fun to be with kids, but there’s another __________. I’ve met so many neighbors now. And it __________my heart when I open my front door and hear, “Good morning, Ms Mary!”

Egyptian table tennis player Ibrahim Hamadtou didn’t win a medal, or even score a victory. But he has become one of the most_________stories at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Hamadtou lost his_________ in a train accident when he was just 10 years old. But that did not_________his love of sports. He used to play both football and table tennis. After the accident, he felt lost and stayed _________at home for three years. Then he went back to football, but football was too_________ for him. With no arms, he couldn’t protect himself when he fell!

After several _________, he found that he could play table tennis with his mouth. It took him nearly a year of_________to hold the racket (球拍) with his mouth and make the _________with his feet.

He first competed at the Rio Paralympics, and was finally able to fulfill his lifelong _________of competing in Paralympics. He lost his first two matches, but did _________ the respect of other players like David Wetherill. “He’s a legend in table tennis,” said Wetherill. “I know I won today but I think he has_________ far more skills than I have.

In Tokyo, he lost to a Chinese player and a player from South Korea,_________all the competitions at his second Paralympics. However, he has a(n)_________ for the world about what disability really means, in his eyes.

“I want to tell everybody that nothing is _________, and everybody should work hard for what you love and what you think is good for yourself,” he said. “The _________ is not in arms or legs; it is not to stick to whatever you would like to do.”