The movie Alita: Battle Angel tells a story of a “bionic girl” with robotic arms and superhuman fighting powers. And in _______ life, Tilly Lockey also has robot arms which look like those seen in fantasy movies.

Tilly lost both her hands and the tips of her toes _______ meningitis (脑膜炎)when she was a _______.

As she grew, her mom tried to get her to _______ various prosthetics (假肢). Her mom says, “At the age of three, she got her first _______ hands. But these only allowed Tilly to move her fingers one at a time.” Tilly recalls, “In the end I _______ wearing them and learned to do things without hands.”

_______, not long ago, she’s got two bionic arms which she has _______ the use of! Tilly’s new arms came as a gift -- after James Cameron’s company approached Open Bionics, the firm who made them. The movie makers offered to _______ a new pair of arms called the Hero Arms for an amputee (被截肢者) that look just like the ones Alita has. Bionic limbs have existed for a decade ________ the Hero Arms cost much less. They are also ________ and more agile (灵巧的) than any that have come before. And, most importantly, unlike the limbs which were designed to look human and “hide” the fact a limb was missing, these new ________ are machine-like.

Tilly is ________ with her new-found skills. “I could do a lot before________ hands, but it’s fun ________ things with the Hero Arms. I can ________ a toothbrush, brush my hair and play video games. At school, everyone wants to shake ________ by the hand.”

Payne says, “If kids go into school with an Iron Man hand, they don’t have a ________ They have something that they feel super ________.”

Tilly is now working with the tech company to ________ bionic arms for other differently-abled people.

Table tennis may not seem a good choice for someone with no arms—but Ibrahim Hamadtou, a Egyptian Paralympian (残奥会运动员), ______ the difficulty by holding the paddle (球拍柄) in his ______ and using his right foot to serve (发球) the ball.

Hamadtou was drawn to table tennis after being challenged by a ______ .“I was acting as a judge in a match between two of my friends,” he explains. “They ______ on a point. When I counted the point ______ one of them, the other player told me angrily, ‘Do not intervene as you will never be able to play.’ His statement fired up my ______ to play table tennis.”

It took Hamadtou three years to ______ the sport. “At first, I tried to use the bat under the arm, ______ it wasn’t working well. ______ , I tried using my mouth. With practice and playing regularly, this skill was ______ .”

The Egyptian’s ______ talent came to light in 2014 when he was ______ the best Arab Athlete of the year. He won a silver medal at the 2016 African Championships, ______ for his first Paralympics in 2016 at 43, and then again for the 2020 Tokyo Games at 48.

The ______ athlete says, “The disability is not in arms or legs, the disability is to not ______ in whatever you would like to do.”

I finished my exams when I was 18 and decided to come back to school for a special one-week course. My school looked very different. Ramps（坡道）had been set up on the___________ in the classrooms. My schoolmates and I were _________by around 30 others mostly_____________people like us, but who seemed very _______________. Some were in _______________;one boy was blind; one spoke through a computer like the scientist Stephen Hawking. Others had mental_______, behaving like children or speaking in a_______ way.

My ___________   wasn’t about caring for disabled people like doctors and nurses; it was about ___________ and having fun with them. We went to museums and ______________ London; we held snakes when a mobile zoo visited the school; we worked together to__________ dances, artwork and music.

Everyone was __________ up with one or two disabled people and shared a bedroom with them. It wasn’t easy to ______________ everyone’s individual requirements. Most of us had never had to change a diaper（尿布）__________let alone the diaper of a disabled person.When I got home at the end of the ____________, I was exhausted. All my ____________   had been given to other people. But the thrill of making a difference for others was __________ where all that energy had come from. I had never________ that I could do so much.

I am still in __________   with my disabled friends. Dorcas is 65; she has written 10 books using a stick to________ the keyboard. Susie is 26; she carries a wand（魔杖）to   cast “happiness” on everyone she sees.