How we respond to hardships, varies from person to person. There are those who turn their hardships into a power for _________ —helping others who have suffered from a similar loss.

In his book The Second Mountain, David Brooks tells the story of Sarah Adkins who went through a _________ story. While she was away on a trip, her husband died in an accident. It took Sarah years to _________. Eventually, she managed to turn her pain and anger into _________ to help others. She started a foundation (基金会) for women who can’t _________ medical treatment. Most of us, _________, will never face such a hardship as Sarah’s, _________ we can all learn from her how to use _________ situations to help others.

Recently, a colleague of mine _________how one of her teen children, who had a heart condition, felt __________ by taking a medical test that may help others in the future. This is her teenager’s ________of turning illness into a power for good and it also benefited herself.

Actually, what really __________ is our attitude towards hardships. When we face hardships, it is up to us not to allow circumstances to __________. It doesn’t mean that we don’t __________ pain, but means finding the courage to move on and grow from the __________.

How much therapy(治疗） does a person need? The first day I joined Wayne State Medical School,the principal _______ me, saying, there 's a senior student who lost his _______in an accident. Before the accident, he was outgoing, _______friendly. With the fitting of his artificial leg（假肢），he became lonely, _______ all of his friends.Please don't say the word 'leg' in his presence.”I said,"Okay, I 'll _______ .”

As a new teacher,I was not in a hurry. I waited until the students_______me . It _______three weeks. Then I selected three students-Jerry,Tom and Joe. I told them,"I'm going to play a joke. Tomorrow,Jerry,you go to the fourth_______ holding the elevator up there. Tom,you stand at the head of the stair well and look down at the ground floor. And Joe,you stay on the ground floor _______ the elevator button and complaining that the cleaner is keeping the elevator up ________ she could get her mops(拖把）down.

The next morning,everybody was there at 7:30,________ for the elevator. I acted ________to see them all. We talked about the weather. Then I said,“Why don't you press the elevator button, Joe?" Joe said,"That stupid________is keeping it up on the fourth floor."Still further chatting,I began to   ________ Joe to push the elevator button. At five to eight,the light was lit up on the second began to floor. I ________ the student   with an artificial leg in one corner,saying,"Let us cripples(跋子）walk upstairs and ________the able-bodied to wait for the elevator.” So we started climbing upstairs , Toms saw us and waved at Jerry. Jerry________ the elevator, and the rest of the class came up on it. At he end of the hour that student got his social ________again. I,who was also a cripple, ________him out of the status(身份）of a cripple. That gave him a(n) ________ status.

It was a hot spring day. The temperatures ______more like July than May. I headed into a store to buy my son a shirt. The air conditioning there was a welcome __ from the heat outside.

After I made my _____ 1 walked back out into the heat. I got in my car but had to wait to _____ because of all the cars lined up at the red stop light. I looked out of my car window and saw something on the road. A single butterfly was ____ flapping its wings but not getting off the _____ . It was right in front of a truck's tyre too. Without thinking 1 got out of my car, held my __ up so the truck driver wouldn't move forward, and ___down to look at the butterfly. One of its legs was _____ in what looked like spilt soda. I reached down and as ____ as I could cupped the butterfly in my hands- I lifted its leg up and suddenly it was _____ . I opened my hands and up it flew towards the shining sun. My own heart felt _____ as I watched it.

Now a lot of people might wonder why I would step out into _____like that to rescue a single butterfly. All I can say is that my heart was __ me at that moment. And _____ I was done I felt more like my true self than I had all day.