I am a professional athlete. I’ve always worked hard to _______ myself to my limits and with that usually come some aches and _______. Last year when I started to feel some muscle pain after _______ exercise, at first I didn’t think it was a big _______. I was training for marathon at the time, so over the weekend I’d done a 20-kilometre run.

The following Tuesday I went to my favourite CrossFit gym to do a _______ that involved a lot of upper body weight lifting. My trainer told me to take it easy on my body, but I _______ I’d be fine and powered through it. Afterward, my trainer noticed a _______ swelling in my arm and said he was _______. I tried to _______ him but he insisted I drink a lot of water and ________ my arm with him in a few hours. By that afternoon the swelling had increased. I still thought the trainer was making a mountain out of a molchill(小题大做) but I ________ my trainer so I did it. Then I ________ to the doctor.

The doctor took a look at me and ________ me I suffered from rhabdomyolysis(横纹肌溶解), a life-threatening condition where muscle overuse ________ kidney failure(肾衰竭). As he gave me IV fluids to wash the toxins(毒素), my doctor told me that if I’d waited even another 30 minutes, I would have been in the ________ room. Things were dangerous over the weekend but I fully ________ in the end. I was a very ________ Cross Fitter but still hadn’t realized anything wrong. ________ I had a great trainer I could believe in; he ________ my life.

So trust is important. It can be ________.

One summer afternoon, when I was about eight years of age, I was looking at a beautiful rainbow. Somebody said, “If you should go to the ____ of the rainbow, you would find there great pots of gold and silver.” Without ____, I rushed from the house, and set off toward the woods.

I was so sure that I knew just ____ that rainbow ended. I remembered how glad and proud I was in my thoughts, and what fine presents I ____ to all my friends out of my riches. So thinking, and laying delightful plans, almost before I knew it I had ____ the thick forest, and the end of the rainbow was not there! ____ I saw it shining down among the trees a little farther off; so on and on I ____, through the thick bushes and ____ rapid streams. The woods grew thicker and darker, and the ground wetter. Suddenly I met in my way a ____ porcupine (豪猪), who made himself still larger when he saw me. Fearing that he would attack me, I ran from him as fast as my ____ feet would carry me. In my ____ and hurry I forgot to keep my eye on the rainbow, and when, at last, I ____ and looked for it, it was nowhere in sight! It had ____. I burst into tears, for I had lost all my ____ and had nothing to show for my pilgrimage (journey to a holy place) but muddy feet and a wet and torn body.

But I soon found that my ____ had only begun: I was lost! I could not tell which was east or west, but ____ about here and there, crying and calling, though I knew that no one could ____ me. All at once I heard my nickname called, so I jumped up. It was my eldest brother. He hugged and kissed away all my tears, and then he told me what the rainbow____ is: “It is only painted air, and does not _____ on the earth. But it tells us something more. When you set off on a pilgrimage, you will be ____ by the rainbow through all the dark places of this world to treasures in your heart, better, far better, than silver or gold.”

Maria stared thoughtfully at the tree fort. It was the first thing her grandpa had built for her. She had been little — it was_________ her younger brothers had been born. Of all her brothers, Maria felt that she was most like her grandpa. Grandpa had been a carpenter. Maria had always loved visiting him in his workshop. Only she had been_________ because she was the oldest. He could do anything with his own two hands, she thought_________.

Recently, Maria had decided that she was going to build a tree swing. Now she was standing_________ the tree, with her rope, seat, and tools, thinking about the best way to_________ the swing. She could throw the ropes_________ the branch. But then how could she tie the knot? She would probably need to_________ a ladder.

“Hey, what’re you doing?” called a voice from a little distance away. Maria_________ and saw her little brother Ricardo ran up to her. “None of your business,” she_________. Then, thinking better of it, she said, “__________ a swing.” “Really? Can I help?” Ricardo asked. Maria thought it over — it would be__________ to have some help. But she was the__________ in the family now, so she would have to solve her own problems.

“No,” Maria said. “I don’t need any help.” Suddenly, her other brother, Emil, came running towards them. “Hey, what’re you guys doing?” “We’re building a swing,” Ricardo said. “No, we’re not,” Maria said. “I am!” “Can I help? “Emil asked. “No!” Maria was turning red. “This is my__________. Not yours. You__________ even knew Grandpa.” She ran into the house, leaving Ricardo, Emil, and her__________ beneath the tree.

“What’s wrong, Maria?” Grandma asked. “Ricardo and Emil are bothering me,” Maria explained the__________. “They’re just trying to help. And how are you going to do it all by yourself?” “Grandpa didn’t need anyone’s help,” Maria said. “Who do you think helped him cut the boards for your tree fort?”

Grandma asked. Maria was__________. “But I don’t remember...” “Maria, Grandpa was a great carpenter, but even great carpenters need help sometimes. __________ he needed a second pair of hands, he’d ask me to help.” Grandma glanced out the window. “And it looked like you need help, too.” Maria hurried outside.

Ricardo and Emil were__________ the ladder in the yard, waving at Maria. Smiling, she began to wonder if she might not be the only one to__________ Grandpa.