Kids often put posters of their favorite musicians, movie stars and athletes on their bedroom walls. But a young person _______ gets to meet or talk to their idol (偶像). For one young girl ----Cori “Coco” Gauff--- her chance to do just that happened in an _______ way!

Gauff developed an interest in _______ at 4 after watching matches on TV. She began playing at 7 and showed a real _______ for the sport, so her parents _______ their jobs to devote full-time attention to Gauff’s education and training. When Gauff turned 10, she began training at a tennis center run by Patrick Mouratoglou, who was _______ by her determination and fighting spirit.

_______ of her talent, Mouratoglou sponsored Gauff to _______ his academy in France. While she was preparing to go to the academy, she received a call that would _______ her plans and her life. Wimbledon organizers called and ________ Gauff entry to the tournament. This made the 15-year-old girl one of the youngest players to ________ qualify. After arriving in London, she received another ________. She would be   ________ her lifelong hero, Venus Williams!

The world watched with ________ as Gauff beat Williams in two straight sets! Afterwards, Gauff shook Williams’s hand and thanked her. Even in celebration of her ________，it was important for Gauff to show her ________. The young player said, “I try to stay modest and just ________training and getting better.”

After the match, Williams said of Gauff, “I feel ________ that I was on her wall as a ________. Soon she’ll be on other girls' walls. It’s ________ , because it’ll keep it going from the next generation to the next generation.”

It was early when Mom Racer awoke. Quietly she _________ out of bed and moved through the silence house. In the hallway she stopped at the bedroom of her younger son, Mike. She entered and saw him sleeping peacefully in his bed; it had been a long time _________ he had done so, as nightmares had been _________ for him after the accident.

Not wanting to _________ his sleep, Mom continued down the hallway. _________ at the next door that was closed, she quietly entered the room. It was _________ painfully the same, and Mom’s breath caught in her throat at the _________ of empty, still-made bed before her.

For some reason, unknown even to her, Mom had expected her older son, Rex, to be in it. Brushing away a tear from her cheek, she went to the bed and _________ the pillow. Holding it _________, she was able to catch the __________ of her lost child. Unable to be in her son’s room any longer, Mom put down the pillow and __________ left the room.

As she passed the glass door to the backyard something outside caught her eye and made her stop in her tracks.

It was a single white rose bud（蓓蕾）lying on a sheet of paper. She went outside and picked it up and there was a __________ that had been written on it. The handwriting was very __________, and Mom had tears in her eyes as she read it. “ Dear Mom, I love you.”

Mom wasn’t sure how, but __________ reading those words, she saw that __________ Rex had given her a message that he was with them.

Until a few years ago, I had what most people would probably call a good life, for I had a(n) _________ job that paid the bills; I had a good family that I was really close to, and I had a place to live in and money in the bank for trips and _________, and there was nothing much wrong in my life. _________, I was bored.

I wanted more. I wanted to live _________ and loudly and make sharp memories instead of the _________ ones of everyday life. But I was a little _________. I had never had any _________ in myself. As a child, even buying something in a shop caused me a great deal of _________, and even though I did get better as I got older, I never _________ that childhood shyness. And I tried everything, like reading books about confidence. I took tiny steps leading to my goals. But none of them really __________ .

So I decided that the small steps weren’t enough. I signed up for the internship (实习期) of teaching English in Vietnam, a huge step which seems impossible, one that __________ me as much as it excited me. And then the day came and I left my home and my loved ones. I was alone in a country where the food was strange and the streets were dirty. I had no idea whether I could __________ everything that this very strange environment would throw at me.

I spent more than five months in Vietnam, teaching, exploring and laughing. I’d learnt to __________ myself, my skills, my abilities and my decisions. After that, I returned home __________, even to myself, let alone to others. The fear that had controlled my life and the self-doubt were completely __________.

That one big chance changed everything for me, and in me.