People love to ask, “What’s your secret?” Sometimes they want to know how I perform _________. Other times they want to _________ how I went from an adopted child to the Olympic champion.

My answer to both is the same: a mix of talent, hard work and catching the right _________ when given the opportunity. I was _________ to have both a gift for gymnastics and the chance to _________ it, and I did devote myself to _________ it. But many people aren’t so lucky.

Do you know that _________ there are nearly 400,000 children and youth waiting to be _________ in the United States? But as _________ as 3% of adopted kids go on to earn a bachelor’s degree, compared to about 30% of the general __________. They simply lack the support, resources and opportunity to ________ their potential.

So I want to __________ for these kids because I was adopted myself. My road to __________ began on the day my grandfather adopted my __________ and me. My birth mother suffered from drug addiction, and when I was just three years old, my sister and I moved around until I was six and my grandfather made the __________ move to adopt us.

Finding a family made me feel like I __________. Finding a passion, something I loved, made me feel I was important. __________ my country and being part of such a __________ Olympic team matters.

Our __________ shouldn’t shape us or keep us from our goals. My hope is that I can help other adopted children realize their __________ in the months and years ahead.

Why are younger age group so much more willing to post an offensive message on social media? Why aren’t we changing the ___________ in the actual cyberbully (网络欺凌)? That’s when I had a idea What if I gave them a chance to ___________ what they were doing? If an adolescent ___________ to post an offensive message on social media, and if I went, “Whoa! Hold on. You’re about to shoot an offensive message to someone. That can really ___________ them. Are you sure you want to post this message?”, would they still be ___________to do it?

So early this year, using my science and technology skills, I ___________ a software system. And basically, they were able to compare whether a caution which caused adolescents to consider what they were doing actually reduce their _____________ to post offensive messages.

In the end, I was able to get 1,500 _____________ trials of data. 93% of the time when adolescents _____________ a caution that says, “Whoa! You’re about to post an offensive message”, they finally ____________ their mind. I was able to ______________ the willingness to post offensive messages from 71.4% to 4.6%.

Now, the app Rethink has become widely popular. I also currently hold a patent for this ______________ idea. According to the data, Rethink has ______________ that, in those seconds, when you decide whether or not you’re going to hit “post”, the ______________ of the seconds means so much in the future. So, I encourage all of you: rethink before the damage is done. We need to slow down,______________, and consider what we’re doing.

Arts often lie at the bottom when students and parents are asked to rate subjects learned in school according to their importance. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not ______. Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an ______ priority (最重要的事). This view is shortsighted.______, music education is ______ and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of human beings who ______ it, it reflects their thinking and values,______ the social environment it came from. Rock music shows a ______ just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their ______ is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and ______. It gives us identity as a society.

Music provides a kind of emotive perception (感知) that can ______ be shown in any other way. Science can just explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts,______, explore emotive meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and ______ to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.

In exploration of the world, the arts are as ______ as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the ______ of civilization through which we ______ our fears, our curiosity, our hunger, our discoveries and our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be ______ with others. When we do not give children access (机会) to an important way of expressing themselves such as music,______, they miss an effective way to express themselves.

Science and technology do not tell us what it ___to be human. The arts do. Through music, we express and ______ human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.

So music education is far more necessary than people to ______.