If there is one trait (特点) I have taken from my mother, it is her _________. Like most mothers, my mom wants the best for me. She encourages me to seize every opportunity and use it to its fullest _________. She has encouraged me to _________ those opportunities that may even seem impossible. After all, she does this every day.

When friends met my mom for the first time, they were often taken aback, and _________ they didn’t want this emotion to show on their faces when they shook her hand and said hello. When they got me alone for a second, they _________ me for not telling them my mom was in a wheelchair. It shocked them.

In my _________, I never think to mention that my mom is in a wheelchair. She has been paralyzed from the waist down for most of her life. To me, though, she is just a/an _________ mom. Like many of my friends’ moms, she has always been there for me. When there were those _________ as a child when I just needed to be held, I knew I could crawl onto my mother’s lap and find _________ in her safe arms. When I needed a __________ on the sideline of my soccer games, she was always there. Mother, friend, teacher, nutritionist, chef, caregiver, banker, and advisor---my mom has always been __________ for me.

On family vacations, my mother never sits out on a/an __________. She couldn’t hike the volcano in Hawaii with the rest of the family or go cliff-jumping in Mexico. But she always __________. She goes as far as she can.

I have learned from watching my mom that if I don’t have the courage to try, even if the chances of failure are slim, I will never __________. The opportunities I have are without bounds because my mother showed me how to live __________ limits.

In just 15 months, this 441-pound man who couldn’t _________ in a theatre seat lost 223 pounds. The _________ for the change came when the 31-year-old recognized that he didn’t have the _________ to play with his two young children.

“In the past, I couldn’t even walk up a _________ of stairs without feeling out of breath,” said Sparkes, a salesman from Weston-super-Mare, in England. Before his weight loss, Sparkes was eating 6,000 calories a day and _________ a completely sedentary(久坐的) lifestyle. His doctor was actually shocked that he didn’t have any health issues, but _________ him that it was only a matter of time until he would develop diabetes(糖尿病) and joint problems.

“I was _________ I wouldn’t be around for my children,” he said. So in September 2019, he changed his diet and started trying to lose weight. After losing some weight, Sparkes turned his _________ to his physical fitness. In March 2020, he started running and used an app to _________ it, and he joined a running club. On December 20^th he ran his __________ marathon. “I had my wife and my kids there waiting for me at the end, and it felt __________. I ran it in five hours and 24 minutes, but I ran the whole distance.”

He has four marathons __________ this year and runs half marathons on most weekends to stay __________. He also raised ￡1，280 for the Alzheimer Society by joining the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to help those who are __________.

Sparkes says that he underwent much trouble but he never gave up and that his wife has played a big role in his success by being __________.