SpoGomi is a sport involving litter-picking by teams of three. You’re given an area of 1.5 sq km, and have to _______ as much litter as possible within an hour. The litter is then _______. The team with the most wins.

We _______ the first SpoGomi world cup last August. _______ we were drawn to taking part because of a free trip abroad. Upon arriving, we walked around the competition area, and thought about the _______ of people who drop litter：probably typically people who were drinking. That helped us narrow down where to go. Another _______ was that we were young and physically fit. We like the _______ element of the sport, whereas people from other countries are _______ more by environmental interests.

With 21 nations participating, the competition was _______. After the first half, we were second. My muscles were ________ and I felt completely exhausted from the summer heat, but we had this feeling of being on the edge of something ________. We had to just keep ________. In the second half we pulled ahead because we ________ an area no one else had been to. We ended up coming first with 57kg of rubbish collected.

Without the competition, I wouldn’t have been someone who would have picked up litter off the street before. Now we are just much more ________ of it. Once you’re drawn into SpoGomi, your attitude towards litter and how you ________ completely changes.

My friend Juan Jose is blind. His eyesight was never good. He wore glasses from an early age. He had serious difficulties, physical and ______ , and was at times painfully aware of what he was missing out on. _____   he had the desire to apply himself in college in Mexico and then in graduate school at Georgetown University: those studies required a real force of will.

Although he couldn’t see with his eyes, he learned to tell where everything in front of him was through people’s ______ and the movements of his fingers. Once he had figured out , he didn’t ______ for objects or seek additional help and acted like a normal person. There was a time ______ my friend Alice and I were at a dinner party with him. When I told her he was blind after dinner, she had no idea what I was talking about. She had sat near him for about four hours and never ______ it. That’s not because he hid his ______ .It’s because he had adapted to it so ______ and didn’t go out of his way to mention it. He regarded it not as a burden(负担)but as (an) ______ .

Going blind and then being blind ______ his will and concentrated his energy, because he ______ his blindness as a test that made him and his life much more interesting. That viewpoint was made possible _____ by his parents’ support, the safety net that they provided, and his getting an excellent ______ But what’s truly important lies in his own determination and attitude. While we have ______ control over the events that happen to us, we have the final ______ over how we respond to them.

“We need to make sure we’re saving water,” I told my kids, Scout and Sunny.

We were suffering from a ________drought. My husband and I were eager to ________the kids how to help. So I was showing them a bucket(桶) we’d set up in the shower to collect any ________, which we could use to ________the garden.

A week later, I was cutting up mango for Jasper, my 16-month-old son. After eating it, the played happily while I   ________my eldest, Nicholas, 21. Then, I heard Sunny ________“ Jas-per was in the water!” Hanging up the phone, Iran to the ________The water in the bucket was still shaking after Sunny had pulled her ________out of it. It had never crossed my ________that he’d drown himself in the bucket. Now, he was leaning to the ground like a doll. It seemed he was ________“Call an ambulance,” I screamed. Our neighbor Carolyn was a ________She knew what to do. ________she was in her garden. Without any ________, we put Jasper down and she started doing CPR (心肺复苏). And then，13 minutes into the CPR，his eyes ________.“Jasper is very lucky,” the doctor said, “His story could have ________very differently if there hadn’t been someone to do CPR so quickly.”

We’re so grateful to still have our sweet boy, and I hope his story can remind more parents of the danger in our daily life.