On August 23rd, my son was out mountain biking with his teacher and friends. As usual, we were waiting at home ________ lunch ready. At 12:15, he still hadn’t ________. Then, we got the call that he was badly hurt.

We ________ up the mountain in the car. He was in the kind of ________ you never want to see. We got him to the hospital for X-ray s to be told his collarbone (锁骨) was broken. Collarbones are especially ________ to treat, as you can’t just put them in a cast (石膏). Children his age are moving all the time, ________ how we would be able to stop an active 8-year-old boy from moving for a minimum of 5 weeks was a ________.

We got him a “figure-of-8” support that keeps both his shoulders aligned (成一条直线). It was the best ________ for making sure the bone grew back straight. Sleeping was very painful for him, and in the next few ________ everything came crashing down. No sports. No activity. ________ birthday party plans. We got into a new normal at home. We found other things for him to do that weren’t ________, such as reading and making artwork. It ________ his world from being the strong, active kid to not being able to do what he loved. However, he gradually adapted to his new life.

I would never ________ an-injury on anyone;yet, it is a direct way to learn how to be patient with life, with the body, and with each other. My ________ lesson has been that my child may have learned more from this injury than anything else he’s gone through this year, and, ________, it will serve him for life.

Ouyang Zhuo, a hearing-impaired (听觉受损的) student, who scored 680 out of 750 points in the 2022 national college entrance exam, has made it to Peking University. What’s _____ is that he got full marks in the English listening test.

Ouyang was diagnosed with hearing _____ in both ears when he was 3 years old and had to use a hearing aid. Despite _____ because of his hearing problem, he never gave up _____. He had not attended kindergarten, but his grandmother helped him _____ an interest in mathematics from a young age. When in the sixth grade of primary school, he was studying junior middle school-level mathematics by himself.

Ouyang kept a low profile at first, _____ communicating with his classmates as he couldn’t hear what they were _____. Gradually, however, he looked at it as a _____ life had thrown at him and was _____ to take it up.

Ouyang had a hard time learning English in the beginning. He would repeatedly watch the teacher’s lip movement to be able to pronounce the words better. Existing ______ exempt (免除) hearing-impaired students from the English listening test, giving them 50 percent of the total score. But Ouyang ______ taking the test in the hope of getting a higher ______. He not only got high marks in English, but got full marks in the listening test.

One of the reasons for his success is that he never saw himself as “______”. “Wearing a hearing aid is like wearing glasses,” he said. “It’s no different.” Ouyang’s mother wrote to him, “I hope you can follow your heart, ______ your dream bravely, and enjoy the joy of your efforts.” “The happiest thing for me was learning to ______ problems by myself,” Ouyang said.

A nurse named Aly Hogarth has reunited with a mother and daughter at the same hospital ship 30 years after saving their lives.

In 1993, Ms Hogarth was touring a hospital ship in Sierra Leone when she knew that a patient Catherine Conteh needed a Caesarean section (剖腹产手术), but she couldn’t _____ it. Ms Hogarth contacted her colleagues and they paid for the 170 surgery, so that Catherine’s daughter, Regina, could be _____. Later, Ms Hogarth volunteered to take care of her in the hospital, _____ her wound and teaching her how to feed the baby. In this way Ms Hogarth formed a _____ with the mother and the baby, but they lost _____ when she returned home to New Zealand.

Ms Hogarth, now 52, volunteered for charity Mercy Ships. Surprisingly, she _____ Catherine and Regina at the same hospital ship. They both became nurses, inspired by Ms Hogarth, and Regina now has a child of her own.

Ms Hogarth said, “To see Catherine in person again, it’s very unreal really. It’s not something I _____ expected until we made contact again. For me, I felt _____ at the moment when we met and didn’t know how to react.” “We just cried and cried,” Catherine said. “Regina and I would have died without Ms Hogarth’s pure love.”

“It’s really _____ to see Catherine again,” Ms Hogarth shared. “I thought about her every time I told that story for the last 30 years. I know it was a significant time — realizing that you can make a real ______ by doing something.”