Fifty one years ago, the doctors told Dick Hoyt that the brain damage his son Rick suffered at birth was so severe that he would never be able to enter the mainstream society. There was no ______, they said, of Rick being anything more than a “ vegetable (植物人)”. The doctors told Dick Hoyt that Rick should be institutionalized (置于公共机构照料之下).

Rick’s parents never listened to the ______. Even though Rick couldn’t speak or use his arms or legs, the Hoyts decided to ______ him just like any other child. They took him to camp and swim, and also enrolled him in a public primary school. Rick ______ to graduate both from high school and from Boston University. Today, with the help of personal care attendants, he lives ______ in his own apartment.

His career as a(n)______ began when he was in middle school. Rick told his father he ______ to participate in a five- mile benefit ______ for a local player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Dick was not a runner, but he ______ to push Rick through the race course in his ______. During the run, Rick felt as though he wasn’t ______ any more—he was simply one of the runners.

“When we got home that night, Rick wrote on his computer, ‘Dad, when I’m running, it feels like my disability ______’, which was a very powerful ______ to me.” said Dick.

Dick has run thousands of miles to be with and ______ his son. Team Hoyt’s total commitment to each other and to what they do ensures that they challenge themselves ______. In addition to their athletic events, the Hoyts ______ the country to speak about their ______. They also have ______ the Hoyt Foundation, which seeks to help young people with disabilities into everyday activities so they may live a fruitful and ______ life.

Just a few days before the 2013 Boston Marathon, a bronze statue of the Hoyts, with the ______ of “Yes You Can!”, was unveiled (揭幕) near the starting line.

I am a social worker. I wanted to tell everyone about my very dear friend who passed away a few months ago.

I met him many years ago while doing my internship (实习期) in the country prison. He was ________ a program he had designed to help prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. He was always ________ new ways to bring hope and help to these men and their ________.

One of his favorite ________ was the Toy Drive. He would run every Christmas for the children of the prisoners. He did this for twenty years ________ his sudden death. As last Christmas ________，I decided that this tradition had to be ________，for the children as well as the ________ of my friend.

But the file where he kept the names of the people who had been helped by him over the years was ________. I had to start anew(重新) and with very little ________! I started making phone calls, explaining about the project and my ________. I prayed every night that the event would, ________, be worthy of my friend. To my great ________, individuals, churches and businesses began to come on board and, ________, I had enough toys to give to all the children of the prisoners with some left over for the local community ________!

When Christmas Eve finally arrived, I felt very happy, thinking I had done all I could do and reflecting on what a(n) ________ it had been for me. I was bagging up the remaining toys ________ if there was anyone left who might like them. Then my phone rang.

It was my daughter. She ________ to explain about a woman she knew in Kentucky who had five children, one seriously ill, no husband, no heating in the home, no toys! Oh! How could we not?

My daughter and I drove all night, from New York to Kentucky, and those children woke up in a nice warm house with plenty of ________!

My friend’s ________ of kindness lived on that year, reaching all the way to Kentucky!

Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom when the door burst open. Her mother, Leigh, hurried into her daughter’s room, making a(n)______: “Can you help?”

Madison and her mother ran to a neighbor’s yard, where they found a ______ woman and other adults ______ a septic tank (化粪池) opening a few inches above the lawn. A boy, aged only two, had ______ an eight-foot-deep tank.

Madison quickly ______ the situation. She knew she was the only one who could ______ through the small hole. Without ______, she told the adults to lower her in. Leigh and others held her waist and ______. Madison shook her arms and shoulders until she got through the ______ into the dark and smelly tank. In the process, she ______ one hand severely. Rather than tend to her injury, Madison scanned the ______ of the water, hoping to feel the boy. Every once in a while, she could see his little ______ in the water but failed to catch his foot. Minutes ticked by before she saw the ______ of his foot again. Madison shot her good hand out and grasped the foot ______. Then both of them were lifted out.

But the boy wasn’t out of ______. He had been short of oxygen so long that he wasn’t ______. He was placed on his side, and an adult ______ him hard on the back until the boy coughed up fluids. Then they were rushed to the hospital.

It took Madison longer to ______ than the boy, who returned home soon. She,______, stayed there for her injury. “Madison’s a hero,” the boy’s mother says, “What other teenage girls will ______ to go into a septic tank?”