Exercise and I have never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _________ me into a dozen sports. _________, I didn’t like any of them.

When I entered University of Regina, my dad _________ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _________” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15 pounds, do you?” So I _________ to give swimming a shot, but I _________managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _________ to convince myself that “Yeah, that’s OK.”

Spring semester came. A friend of mine _________ me one day asking if I wanted to go to Zumba with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically exercise dancing to Latin and pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn`t be _________.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my __________ of tea. The instructor would always say: “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my __________ about sports. I didn’t have to be __________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just need to __________ the music and move. Zumba did __________ me from the Freshman 15 pounds, but it also did so much more. It let me make peace with (于一重扫于好) my __________ past with physical fitness, and enjoy staying healthy.

I was at home alone at midday, working at my typewriter, when the telephone rang. A man' voice said “Your name Bell? You'd better_______ over to the hospital right away. Your _______ has been hurt in an accident.”

Janet had gone out ten minutes earlier. As she left, I'd kissed her absent-mindedly and she _______ me, “You don't even know who you are _______.” She was laughing as she went out the door.

The traffic was heavy and I was caught between _______ and despair (绝望) . My thought turned to the evening last year, _______ I was struggling at a job I didn’t like while longing to make a living at _______. She knew it and made the _______ easy for me- at a time when turning away from a (n) _______ income would have been unthinkable to most women.

In the last few blocks to the hospital, I said to myself our life together could not________ . There were too many good years ahead with our children. Too many trips we'd ________ and hadn't made. They have to be shared to be ________.

Rushing into Emergency, I found Janet's face and clothing were covered with blood. But she reached her hand out to me, saying “I'm all right, darling. Just don't ________ me.” There were the most wonderful words I'll ever hear.

She was all right. We are one of the ________ families, as we know. I had never let Jan understand how meaningless life would be ________ her, How grateful I am for a second chance.

Last evening I was watching the evening news on television. The news was about a prize for scientific _________; I forgot what it was. The announcer, whose name was Ralph Story, said something, that caught my _________. “All great discoveries,” he said, “are made by people between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.” _________ a little over thirty myself, I wanted to disagree with him. _________ wants to think that he is past the age of making any discovery. The next day I happened to be in the public library and spent several hours looking up the _________ of famous people and their discoveries, Ralph was right.

First I looked at some of the _________ discoveries. One of the earliest discoveries, the famous experiment that proved that bodies of different _________ fall at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that _________ to Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he published his world-changing theory of relativity. Well, _________ of that. Yet I __________ if those “best years” were true in other __________.

Then how about the field of __________? Surely it needs the wisdom of age to make a good leader. Perhaps it __________, but look when these people __________ their career. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln __________ the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six.

But why __________ best years come after thirty? After thirty, I __________, most people do not want to take risks or try __________ ways. Then I thought of people like Shakespeare and Picasso. The former was writing wonderful works at the ripe age of fifty, while the latter was __________ trying new ways of painting when he was ninety years old!

Perhaps there is still __________ for me.