Mike and I wanted to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We made a_____at our favorite restaurant, but when we arrived, our_____wasn’t well prepared.

We walked toward the bar in the restaurant to wait. Mike_____a chair for me and the man next to me_____over to give me room to slide in. I smiled my thanks.

“I’m here on business. Can you_____some interesting things to do locally when I have some time off?” the man asked.

Mike and I immediately shifted our attention to the stranger. We love our adopted hometown and quickly suggested half a dozen fun_____.

The stranger’s name was Bill. He and Mike _______to be both mechanical engineers. The two men had_____to talk about. Seconds turned into minutes and strangers turned into friends.

When the hostess approached and told us our table was_____, we said goodbye to Bill. “We’re out to_____our wedding anniversary,” I said as we______to follow the waitress to our table.

“Wow! I really_____you taking the time to talk to me,” Bill said. “It is blameless to ignore me. Happy anniversary!”

The evening sped by. Soon we had to go home. Mike signaled our waiter for the bill._____, the waiter smiled and handed us a note:

Thank you again for talking to a stranger. I really appreciate your kindness._____is on me. Bill Surprised, we looked at the waiter.

“Yes,” he said. “It’s true. He paid your bill.”

We walked back to the_____to thank Bill, but his seat was empty. But we never forgot his generosity and decided to pay it forward.

As her father guided her ________ down the road alongside the swimming pool, 12-year-old Tina Fisher fiddled (整理、摆弄) with the folds of the borrowed wet suit she was wearing and took a few ________ breaths.

This is a girl who loves the ________ of water flowing around her limbs (四肢), who until recently was ________ her underwater swimming, and who takes every opportunity to spend time in the water.

But this was the first time Tina had been anywhere near a pool since the otherwise ________ June 2 when she was playing with a friend. Just 90 minutes after the preteen felt pain in her legs — the first symptom of a spinal stroke — she became paralyzed (瘫痪) from the waist ________ .

Now she was going to try something she’d never ________ even when she’d had the use of her legs: She was going to take her first scuba diving lesson.

Tina’s father, Dennis Fisher, slipped into the pool and helped Occupational Therapist Kaitlin Macdonald ________ his daughter into the water. She lay ________ , rested her head on the surface and, for a few brief moments, ________ her eyes. Then she did something that made MacDonald smile. “Tina,” she said, “look at your leg.” Ever so slightly, Tina was moving her right leg. It was ________ a few inches, but still — Tina’s mind was telling her leg what to do, and her leg was ________ .

“A lot of times, we’ll see movement ________ in the water,” MacDonald said, “It means a capacity (能力) is there that we can build on, ________ it’s still weak.”

For Tina, it felt great to just be back in the pool. She wrapped her arms around her father and briefly lay her head on his chest. Then she turned to Macdonald and indicated she was ready to swim the ________ of the pool.

“OK,” Macdonald said, “Here we go.”

Inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might _________. And sometimes, it can come from the most _________ places.

I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spine (脊椎) disorder. Okorafor was told that a simple operation could _________ it. But when she woke up from her _________, she found that she couldn’t move her legs and was in great pain.

Okorafor got _________ later. But before she did, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her _________ as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also _________ a woman—a woman who could fly, in fact. This _________ woman inspired her and helped her _________ her pain. “I felt myself become __________,” she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.

We __________ know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a __________, most of my inspiration comes from other people’s music. But I also find __________ in other places. Books, movies and __________ just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.

__________, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I’ve seen it plenty of times before; it’s one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reason, I saw it __________. I decided to make music that could create the same feeling as the __________. It’s not done yet, but the music I’m working on now is heavily __________ by the movie’s setting and characters.

Anything can __________ us. You just have to be __________ to catch inspiration when it hits.