That year I was eleven and in sixth grade. In Wethersfield, all sixth graders are_________to take part in the R.O.P. E. Program. Its main_________is to believe your peers (同龄人), work together and_________new adventures. These programs including falling backward and_________peers to catch you, working together to fit into a small circle and something of that kind.

I was ready to take part in these_________. Falling backward and fitting into a small circle were nothing to me. Crossing over a stream (小溪) with nothing holding me up but a rope was daring, but I could_________it. Finally the day came when my sixth grade class would travel to climb and rappel (绕绳下滑) a mountain in Southington. Those people who were too_________were allowed to practice climbing and rappelling a smaller area of rocks, but that wasn't for me. I could climb the big mountain.

Twenty minutes later, my_________arrived. As I was well_________, I set off at once. I got a quarter of the way up but couldn't seem to get any__________.I tried and tried. I began to put myself down and cry. There was nothing more__________than my classmates were looking at me.   All I kept __________was “Lisa, you can do it. Try to fit your foot in there. __________, Lisa. You’re almost there.”

It was then that I thought to myself, “Why am I crying? I can do this.” Almost__________I went on going up the mountain. Within five minutes I successfully__________to the top.

In January of 1998, I was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease. My wife Kathryn and I had just moved from Boston to Seattle. The diagnosis _______ us quite hard. We dealt as best we could, but it was_______.

That summer, my wife discovered a(n) _______ charity bike ride, which raises funds for the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation. Kathryn had never been a(n) _______, and the ride was not easy, so I was surprised when she_______.

Her bike was old, heavy and awkward, especially in comparison with those of other people at the event. People _______Kathryn to purchase a newer, _______ bike, but she didn’t.

I was glad Kathryn was _______ about the ride and had become a fundraiser, but didn’t really_______why she was involved until I heard her ________ it to some friends of ours. She said that she did it because it was the only way she could help to make a(n) ________ to my life. For her, fundraising research for a________ was her motivation.

Kathryn has been by my side for over 20 years. We’ve managed every ________ and storm together. On learning that my disease________her enough to achieve something so difficult, I felt loved, honored, and humbled. She ________   rides during the year, but in every July, you’ll be sure to find my hero riding south from Seattle.

For hours I had been traveling up the Nile Valley, from Luxor to Cairo, on a train jammed with Egypt’s working poor. At 1 a.m. I reached Cairo and took a taxi to Tahrir Square, the city’s center. The taxi _________ me off across the street from Hardee’s. Just as I was about to open the restaurant door, two street _________ pounced (猛扑) on me with cries for _________.

In my broken Arabic I asked when they had last eaten. About 16 hours ago, they said. I asked them to wait while I went inside. Since I was traveling with _________ money and was even _________ meals on occasion, part of me _________ the children’s hunger. But mostly, the children reminded me how _________ . I really was.

I ordered two hamburgers for the boys. Then _________ my remaining stinginess (小气), I bought them one of Hardee’s delicious, big chocolate chip cookies. I brought the food out, and as they took the _________, they __________ me with 30 seconds of nonstop blessings. After they finished, I reached into the bag and __________ the cookie, extending it for them to take. Both boys fell __________, and then tears welled up in their eyes as they __________ this was too much. They __________ the cookie six times.

I knelt down beside them, and __________ their eyes, amazed at what was before me: two poor boys asked __________ for what they needed, __________ to take a little more. On the seventh __________, after a long and silent pause (停顿), they held out their hands and took the cookie.

I had seen many __________ in Egypt-the Pyramids, the Aswan High Dam, the Valley of the Kings, the treasures of King Tut. But it was the __________ outside Hardee’s that left me truly impressive, for here two little boys taught me a lesson I’ve long remembered: an awareness of my spiritual poverty and a desire for a softer heart.