As a teenager, I hated sports and physical education classes. I was always making up _________ to get out of them.

However, when I started university, I decided to _________ kung fu. To my _________, I loved it! It was a friendly and casual club. I used to go two or three times a week to _________. Because it is not a team sport, I didn't feel _________ about not being very good. And because it is a combat sport, you train in pairs, which means that you get to _________ people and talk to them. I also _________ that the focus of the classes was on getting better at kung fu, _________ exercising to change my body. I think that advertising puts us under an unhealthy pressure to change our _________. When I was doing kung fu, my body did change — I got __________ and quicker — but the __________ were a side effect of the sport, instead of the goal. __________, in the last year of university I was too busy to do kung fu most of the time.

When I moved to Italy this year I wanted to start doing a __________ sport again. I found a great local __________ that does mixed martial arts. The club is more __________ than the one at my university and we do lots of sparring (practice fights). I think that sparring is like chess, but much faster and much more fun! If your sparring partner tries to __________ you, you have to decide in an instant how to __________. You could dodge (巧妙躲避), block or even __________ their arm and then throw them to the mat.

When I was a teenager, I never __________ that I would like sports. Now I think that everyone should try as many __________ as possible because I believe there is something out there for everyone!

One day, many years ago, when I was working as a psychologist（心理学家）at a children's institution in England, an adolescent boy showed up in the waiting room. I went out there where he was _______up and down restlessly（烦躁地）.

Tim wore a black raincoat _______was buttoned all the way up to his neck(脖子). His face was pale, and he stared at his feet while wringing （扭） his hands nervously. He had_______his father as a baby, and had lived with his mother and grandfather ever since. But the year before he turned 13, his grandfather and mother were killed in a car accident.

I looked at Tim. He was very_______and in low spirits . He _______to talk to me. The first two times we_______, Tim only sat hunched up （蜷缩） in the chair without saying a word. As he was about to leave after the second visit, I put my hand on his shoulder. He didn't step back, but he didn't look at me either.

"Come back next week, if you like, " I said. I_______a bit. Then I said, "I know it hurts. "

He came, and I _______ we play chess. He nodded. After that we played chess every Wednesday afternoon—in _______and without making any eye contact. It's not easy for me to________ in chess, but I admit that I made sure Tim won once or twice.

Usually, he arrived earlier, took the chessboard and pieces and set them up before I even got a（n）________to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my ________. But why did he________look at me?

"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his ________ ." I thought.

One afternoon, Tim took off his raincoat and put it on the back of the chair. While he was setting up the chess pieces, his face seemed more ________and his motions more lively.

Some months later, I sat staring at Tim's head, ________he was bent over the chessboard. I was thinking about how little we knew about the healing （治疗） process.________, he looked up at me. "It's your________," he said.

After that day, Tim started talking.

Maybe I gave Tim something, but I learned a lot from him. He showed me how one without any words can________out to another person. All it________is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, a sympathetic nature and an ear that listens.

When we're young, we always dream of love and fulfillment, and we think perhaps of beautiful nights or walks along the beach at sunset. No one tells us that the greatest _____ of a lifetime are flying, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.

Not long ago, as I was reading a bedtime story to my seven-year-old daughter, Annie, I became aware of her ____ gaze. She was ____ at me with a fascinated expression. ____ , completing The Tale of Samuel Whiskers was not as ____ as we first thought. I wondered what she was thinking about.

“Mommy," she _____, “I just can't stop looking at your pretty face." I was almost deeply moved by her words. Little did she know how many ____ moments the glow of her sincerely loving statement would carry me through over the following years.

Not long after, I took my four-year-old son to an elegant ____ , where the sweet notes of a classic love song _____ us toward a musician playing the piano. Sam and I sat down on a marble bench nearby, enjoying the _____ quietly.

I didn't realize that Sam had stood up next to me until he turned, took my face in his little hands and said, “ __ with me.”

If only those women __ under the moonlight knew the joy of such an_____ made by a round-cheeked boy with baby teeth. Although shoppers _____chuckled, and pointed at us as we moved around the open space, I would not have______a dance with such a charming young gentleman if I'd been offered the universe.