When I first married, we only had a car for work. I worked earlier so my husband_______me off and waited until work time. In the afternoon, I would_______three miles to his workplace and we returned together.

One day, while waiting for him in the car, I saw the_______woman I had ever seen off the movie screen driving a fancy car. She looked like Liz Taylor. Our eyes made_______and she smiled at me. She was wearing a blue shirt that just_______her car. It was all I could do to_______. Then, a nice-looking man came and they left.

Sitting there in my jeans, I wanted to _______. How could some people _______ it all? In the following weeks, it became almost a _______ to see her. She seemed ________ and always waved in a big smile. My ________ lingered (逗留) long after she drove away. I had always ________ to see her full length. Finally, I could see very well as she walked very ________ with a walking stick. The lady had a prosthesis (义肢)！

I couldn’t watch any more because tears were ________ me. For weeks, I’d envied this woman ________ I had been able to walk three miles！I told my husband about the ________ and he said he knew her story. Both of her parents were killed in an accident and she was ________ injured at only 12.

Suddenly, I realized how ________ I was to have my parents, the ability to walk and many wonderful things. When you meet a person who seems much ________ off than you, don’t be fooled. Looks can be ________.

2015 was the first year when the Blue Jays had made it to the playoffs (季后赛) since their World Series win in 1993.

That year, baseball gave me a whole new way to _________ with my 9-year-old son. He got _________ about playing baseball, and we started watching the Blue Jays games together, _________ the language of baseball. Over the years, my son’s baseball devotion has pretty much _________ our lives. Then came the pandemic (流行病). This spring was a(n) _________ time, but watching the Blue Jays on TV _________ cured me. And the repetitive pattern of the game was comfortable and of much _________. No, you don’t know what’s going to happen, _________ you do know there will be baseball.

By summer, we were back at the _________ to watch my son’s team play. That game __________ my spirits. It helped me feel like __________ was going back to normal. Singing O Canada, __________ for the Jays and feeling the crowd’s positive energy helped me feel like __________ and celebration were possible again.

So, years from now, when I hear the names from this season’s team, I will be __________ back to this time: to the pandemic, and to the real __________ of being a baseball fan.

At age 83, Barbara Humbert dreams of taking part in next year’s “Marathon for All” race at the Paris Olympic Games. It is the first ______ of its kind, allowing amateur(业余)athletes to run the same race path as the Olympic marathon athletes. Humbert has a history of success suggesting she could ______ some runners half her age.

Unlike your ______ great-grandmother, the German-born Frenchwoman runs 50 kilometers a week. She has ______ in many marathons and has the medals to show for it. “It's ______ to have the Olympics in my homeland,” said Humbert, “It would be a ______ for my 60th marathon.”

However, Humbert is ______ whether she will receive the paper for admission to the race, as the number for the Marathon for All will be ______ to 20,024. Humbert's husband Jacques is a big supporter, helping where he can. He is waiting to hear from the sports ministry about the ______ to reserve a piece of admission paper for his wife.

Many ______ hang in the entrance of Barbara and Jacques’s home. They ______ Barbara of all the races she has taken part in, from Athens to Boston and many other cities. She figures out that she has ______

about 8,000 kilometers in those races.

Humbert wants others to ______ in her footsteps. She said of running, “It gives you balance. You run, you empty your head, you feel ______ relaxed afterwards.” Barbara is planning for more races ______ just staying on what has been achieved.