In the dictionary of Jessica Cox, a woman aged 36 from Tucson, Arizona, there seems to be no such words——can’t or impossible. How does that _______?

Jessica was born without _______ but that has only _______ her doing one thing: using the word “can’t”. While she _______ prosthetic limbs (义肢) as a child, she finally gave them up and used her feet to _______ everyday tasks. “Prosthetic limbs can never _______ the tactile (触觉的) ability of flesh and bone——but my feet have that ability,” she said.

She has lived with her _______ since birth with no explanation of why she was born _______ what most of us _______ as essential (基本的) parts, she has been proving that she can do ________ people with arms can do, ________ what most people are proud of. With her feet, she can eat with chopsticks, type on a keyboard, play the piano and even surf on the sea. To our ________, she became the first armless black belt in the American Tae Kwon Do Assocaition. But what ________ people most is that in 2008, she became the first ________ to fly a plane with her feet, ________ her a Guinness World Record.

Now Jessica and her husband are working together touring the world as Jessica gives encouraging speeches. “I wanted to ________ others not to let fear stand ________ of their opportunities.”

So, next time you are ________ to tell yourself, “I can’t possibly …”, remember this ________   woman and change the vocabulary in your ________.

I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I ______ whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a ______ writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our future selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and promised to ______ them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even ______ ?

Thinking back on the letter, I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you’re eighteen years old, twenty-eight seems like a ______ age, but I wasn’t feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had ______ me to be.

When the letter finally reached me, I opened it ______ . It began, “How much do you bet this letter will never get to you?” It continued to greet me casually ______ we were having an IM(instant messaging)chat. As a senior in high school, facing the ______ SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so ______ ! She was apparently not quite happy and hoped I wouldn’t worry so much in the future, and that I wouldn’t forget to be present and ______ my life!

Contrary to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have ______ to meet. Instead, she wrote, “I’ll stand by whatever you do. Even if you are not the one I’m imagining now, I’ll support you, because maybe the person I’m imagining is someone else, but you’re not someone else, you’re me.”

I was ______ , and tears welled up in my eyes at this ______ through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best version of myself that I could be. ______ , I came to realize what I would have accomplished in ten years would pale in comparison to how I’d feel and who I’d be.

I never thought I would be a “runner”. I was the girl who ran slowest in the PE class.A few years ago, I was walking with a group of friends in the Race for the Cure, a 5km race designed to ___ money for the fight against breast cancer,____one lady caught my____.

She was one of the ____ women I've ever seen. She must have been close to seventy years old, ____ a T-shirt with the word “Survivor”. She was so small that it seemed as if she could even be turned over by a strong wind. But, she was running. And she was____ me and my group of friends. She ran slowly, but ____ ---- as if each step pushed her cancer further into her past. Right at that moment, I____that in the next Race for the Cure, I'd be___ along with her.

A week later, I found myself in the____, running on the treadmill ( 跑 步 机 ) .Three minutes after I started, my face was bright red, I felt like my lungs were going to ____. I ___slow down to a walk. I thought of the____ at the race. I kept it up. I was able to go a little____each time. Three and a half minutes. Four minutes.Five.

A year later, I was____at the Race for the Cure, but this time, I____ with the runners. When the race started, the other runners passed me by. I ran forward. I____ if I'd be able to do it. But then, I remembered the____ woman. I ran as fast as I could until I finally crossed that finish line. I had just____my first race! I looked down at my legs, amazed. They had done something I'd never thought____ . I have never felt stronger than at that moment. And I knew that I wanted to do it again.