Charlie Villanueva, once an NBA player, is known for his ability to shoot hoops(篮筐). He says his success is largely due to what he has _________ since childhood.

Today Villanueva’s career may look successful, but life wasn’t always _________for him. At 10, Villanueva got a skin disease alopecia. It caused his _________loss, which was not life threatening but difficult for a kid to go through. Other kids called him hurtful names. In middle school, he was suspended (停学)for _________ a no-hats rule. _________ a note from his doctor allowed him to wear hats, they only _________ more unfriendly attention.

Through it all, Villanueva’s mother was there for him in good times and bad times. With his mother’s help and _________, Villanueva turned his frustration (挫败)into _________ to play basketball well on the court. As he improved as an athlete; basketball helped him deal with his alopecia.

In fact, over six million Americans have alopecia like Villanueva. They have gifts, abilities and a need to feel _________, Villanueva established the Charlie Villanueva Foundation to help families of kids with alopecia. Villanueva __________kids to feel good about who they are, work hard toward their goals and __________to others. Here’s his __________for them.

“We’re all __________in our own different ways. Embrace it and enjoy life __________. Many didn’t think I’d make it. Thankfully they were __________ about me. Believe in yourself, and all dreams arc possible.”

It was a rainy and foggy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she insisted that I come to see something at the top of the mountain_________.

So here I was, _________ making the two-hour journey through the_________ that hung like veils.

“I’ll stay for lunch, but I’m heading back down as soon as the fog lifts," I announced when I _______.

"But I need your car to the garage to _________ my car," Carolyn said. "Could we at least do that?"

“How far is it?" I asked.

"About three minutes," she said. "I'll _________ I'm used to it."

After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her _________. "I thought you said three minutes."

She _________ . "This is a detour."

Turning down a narrow track, we___________the car and got out.

From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across folds and valleys, were __________ of colorful daffodils (水仙花). It looked as though the sun had__________gold down the mountainside. Here and there were coral-colored tulips (郁金香). And as if these were not__________, western bluebirds played over the heads of the daffodils jofully

Who created such beauty? How? When?

As we __________ the home that stood in the center of the property, we saw a(n) __________ that read: "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are __________ About."

The first answer was: "One Woman Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little__________." The second was: "One at a Time." The third: "Started in 1958.”

One at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she__________ at it. The wonder of it would not let me__________". I imagine," I said, "If I'd had an idea and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have__________?

Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. "Start tomorrow," she said."__________ yet, start today."

There was a son. After getting married, he started feeling annoyed with his parents and when his father ________ one day, he decided to send his mother to an old age home.

One day he came to know that his mother was seriously ________ and was left only with few hours of her life. He decided to ________ his mother that day and found her ________ on the bed. Out of nowhere he started feeling ________ for himself for he had not ________ his mother the way she had always treated him. He asked if he could do something in her last time that would make her ________.

His mother replied, “Please ________ some fans, as there isn’t a fan in any of the rooms of this home and also buy a ________ for the old people living here. People living here have to sleep without food as it gets ________ for lack of a fridge.” The son, being ________, asked, “why are you asking me for all these today when you are left only with few   ________?” The mother replied, “I ________ that you will not be able to live here ________ if your son may one day send you here.”

This is how a mother’s ________ is! It does not demand anything!