If life were a book and you were the author, how would you like the story to go? That is the question that_______ my life forever.

One day I went home from the training of snowboarding with what I though was the flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in a _______on life support with less than two percent _______of living. It wasn’t until days later that the doctors diagnosed me with a _______blood infection. Over the course of 2.5 months, I lost the hearing in my left ear and both my legs below the knee. When my parent _______me out of the hospital, I felt like that I had been put together like a patchwork (拼缝物) doll and I had to live with_______legs. I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken, _______streaming down.

But I knew in order to move forward, I had to let go of the Old Amy and _______the New Amy. It was at this moment that I asked myself that important_______ . And that was when it struck me that I didn’t have to be five-foot-five anymore, __________ I could be as tall as I wanted. And best of all, I could make my feet the size of all the shoes. So there were __________ here.

Four months later, I was back upon a __________. and this February, I won two Snowboard World Cup gold medals, __________ me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world. So, instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something __________ or bad, we can begin looking at them as a wonderful __________that can be used to help us go further than we ever know we could go.

When my son, Justin, was four, he found a caterpillar (毛虫) and put it in a jar. Each day he fed it with fresh grass and leaves. In a few weeks we discovered it _________in a cocoon (茧).

Justin was excited. He knew a moth (蛾) or butterfly was about to be _________, but he didn’t know what kind. He was_________to know what gift nature was about to give him.

“Dad!” shouted the boy while running to me one day. “Something’s _________. Come see!”

He led me to his room. The cocoon had become half transparent and we could _________ the wings of the unborn. Soon, a moth broke free from the cocoon, and laid eggs completing the life _________of the little caterpillar.

The next day, I convinced Justin it was time to set the moth free. He took it _________ , opened the jar, and the little moth flew out. It _________the yard twice, came back, and landed on Justin’s arm. He picked it up, tossed it in the air, and the moth repeated its  _________ pattern. He tried over and over, but each time it would __________ to his arm.

Justin__________. He put his little pet back to the jar. The next day he attempted to set it free again, and after a few repetitions of the same behavior, the moth__________flew off into the grass.

Like a __________, I believe the moth was afraid to leave what it was comfortable with. It wanted to stay with something__________, scared to move on and experience something unknown.

I was once that little moth. My cocoon was my mother’s __________ , in which I was comfortable. Like the moth, I didn’t want to fly too far away from it. I was__________ when my first job required me to move to a new city. What would I find there? I liked__________I was.

Humans are creatures of __________. We resist change. However, if I hadn’t moved, I would not have experienced many__________and wonderful things or met many of my friends. So each move gave me the __________to learn and experience, but best of all, I met friends.

Sarah had just moved to a new town over the summer. She was_______about starting at a new school where she didn’t _______ anyone, and was worried about fitting in and making friends. However, Sarah _______ to make the most of this new opportunity (机会).

On the first day of school, Sarah arrived early. She was _______the size of the school, which made her feel small. As she walked down the hallways, Sarah _______ groups of students already came together, laughing and talking. She wondered if she would ever _______ like they did. But then, something _______happened. One of the students, a girl with a friendly smile, walked close to Sarah and_______ herself. “Hi, I’m Emma,” she said. You look lost. Can I help you _______ your classroom?

Sarah was taken aback by Emma’s ________, but thankful for the offer. They walked together down the hallways. Sarah hoped that maybe she had found a new friend.

Throughout the day, Sarah found other students were just as ________ and welcoming as Emma. She struck up conversations with her ________ and even shared a few laughs with her teachers.

As the day wore on, Sarah realized that she had made more friends in a single day than she ever thought possible. She felt a sense of ________ that she hadn’t felt in a long time.

Looking back on that first day of high school, Sarah realized that she had learned a valuable lesson: no matter what ________lay ahead, she had the support and ________ of her new friends to help her.