Ye Ziyi, a young 32-year-old Beijinger, becomes the first Chinese winner of the International Earth and Sky Photo Contest. She has ______ to more than 40 countries to capture the ______ of the starry sky with her camera.

Before becoming a photographer, Ye had a ______ job in an advertising company. But her ______ to astronomy made her decide to become a full-time photographer. However, making a ______ out of her hobby has not been easy, but she has never ______ pursuing her dream, and she hopes more people will be able to ______ the power of nature and pay more attention to the issue of light pollution ______ her works.

The purest view of the sky is always ______ in the corners of the world and star seekers need to overcome a lot of ______, including suffering unpredictable weather, climbing high mountains and knowing how to avoid being ______ by wild animals.

To get good ______ of the Milky Way, she once went to Nam Co Lake in Xizang alone at 2:00 am while the temperature was -5℃. While taking her photos, ______, Mother Nature suddenly grew changeable and the clear night sky suddenly clouded over and brought two storms. The next day, she ______ from severe high-altitude diseases. But when she looked at the beautiful Milky Way photos she took, she felt it was all ______.

I am a recovering perfectionist and learning to play again saved me. I remember playing a lot when I was younger and being _________with a sense of openness, curiosity and joy._________, my attitude began changing from playfulness to perfectionism. Instead of being present and _________the process, I started focusing on performance. The more I did this, the more anxious, critical and _________I grew.

I first developed perfectionist when I was _________piano lessons in school. I got the idea that I had to _________each note again and again to perform each song perfectly. I started hating piano and eventually_________. My perfectionism _________into other areas of my life, too. In school, I _________myself to get straight A’s, and if I earned anything__________, I felt like a failure. At this time in my life, I believed that if I worked __________enough, I could do everything right and look perfect.

It __________me several years to find happiness again. One of the major things that helped me do so was recovering a sense of__________. About this time, my friend Amy and I started taking fencing (击剑) lessons together. I was quite bad at it, but it didn’t__________.I didn’t care about performing __________moves. Instead, I cared about being present with __________in the process and staying open and curious. I felt free and__________, and I realized that I had been __________playfulness for many years. Fencing helped me rediscover play and leave perfectionism__________. When we practice playfulness, life becomes a (an)__________, and there is always something more to learn, explore and enjoy.

Budha Magar, who lost both of his legs, hopes to become the first double above-the-knee amputee (截肢者) to climb Qomolangma.

Though he will be ________ with special legs, the 43-year-old will essentially be crawling up Qomolangma using his ________. He estimates it will take him three times longer than able-bodied climbers to reach the summit, though he is ________ he will be faster than average on the ladder sections because of his superior upper body strength. Indeed, moving up without knees is ________ hard.

Magar, an infectiously ________ and cheerful man, describes his walking gesture as “like a penguin”. In an interview, he jokes about the ________ of living without legs like “no smelly socks” . As well as pushing his own body, he wants to change ________ about disability. “Even now, disabled people are viewed as ‘the burden of the earth’,” he says.

In 2010, suddenly legless, he spent at least 18 months ________ , drinking too much, before a charity offered him the ________ to go skydiving. “That was a big turning point, especially for my confidence, ” he says. “And when I ________ the ground I realised without legs I can do many things.” He realised that it was his mind as much as his body holding him back:“I didn’t know how ________ the mind is. If we set our minds, our body will ________.”

He began doing sports — rock climbing, golf, table tennis — before setting his sights on mountaineering. Before long, a childhood dream to climb Qomolangma ________ , and he began training in earnest. Success on the world’s highest mountain can never be ________ , but his expedition belief illustrates his mindset: no legs, no ________.