In my forties, I suffered from cancer. As a non-smoker who ate healthy food and________ daily, all I could think was: Why me?My ________ of the long journey ahead-surgery, and chemotherapy(化疗)一 prevented me seeing a(n) ________ side.

Several months later, my neighbor Greg________ a high place and was paralyzed( 瘫 痪 )from the waist down. I could imagine his________. In a matter of seconds, he went from being an active young man to being helpless. I thought about ________ him, but I didn't know if he liked my company.

Later that fall, I was ________ to go for a short walk. But chemotherapy had sapped(消耗) the last of my energy. ________, I'd turned around to go back home when Greg drove by, waving with a ________ on his face. I was ________ to see he could drive a truck ________ as a disabled man.

I worked up the________ to ask him how he was doing. He answered, “I'm not going to ________. At first, I just felt my life was over. But one day, my dad had a ________ with me. He said, 'Son, you need to ________ what you can do instead of what you can't.’Dad's ________ changed my life. The list of things I could still do was much ________ than the things I couldn't. I got my life back on track."

Greg's inspiring ________ started me down the path of acceptance. From then on, I no longer felt ________ about my hair loss. I realized that a positive ________ gives you power over your situations.

When a young woman in Texas learned that her father’s small business fell on hard times during the pandemic (疫情), she made a request on Twitter, asking people to help.

“I wouldn’t _______ do this, but my father’s taco (玉米卷饼) truck business is _______, and he only earned $6 today,” Giselle Aviles, 21, wrote in a tweet about her father’s taco truck. “If you could retweet, I would _______ you so much!”

When the pandemic _______, the truck’s sales began to _______. Like Aviles’ father, many small business owners throughout the country continue to struggle through the pandemic. More than 100,000 small businesses have not _______—and that number is on the rise.

But Aviles’ social media plea (请求) _______—by Sunday night, the post had _______ around 2,000 retweets. She told her father that he should start to prepare for many new _______ when the truck opened the next day. Her father didn’t understand ________, so he didn’t know what to ________, she said.

When he arrived at his food truck at 8:00 am on Monday, a ________ of customers had already got there—some had been ________ as early as 6:00 am. Business was so ________ that the food truck had to ________ twice—once to restock and again when they were ________ sold out. He even asked his daughter to help with the ________.

Aviles estimates that her father ________ more than 200 customers on Monday. She said she appreciates the ________ for her father’s business and has since made an Instagram page for more customers to find his ________ easily.

As a nurse, Fawcett jumps around from the emergency room to the COVID-19 units upstairs. The unique ________ has allowed her to see all aspects of the disease — from patients on their death beds to those ________ enough to recover. But her fellow nurses in the emergency room have been so ________ and helpless, who don’t see any light at the end of this dark tunnel. “The patients are just ________,” the nurse said.

At a morning meeting, Fawcett decided to ________ what she witnessed with her fellow nurses. It really gives them a little ________ in their step. Fawcett has worked overtime since an old man was admitted. “This man came in, looking very________. His wife was accompanying him,” she recalled, “We cried together and ________ together. I did not think he was going to make it.” However, the turning point came a week later. He had been taken off the ventilator (呼吸机) and was ________. He was sitting in a chair, smiling at his wife! It was just ________.

The________ has become a motivation for the nurses who struggle to keep up their ________ during growing pandemic (流行病). They feel more ________ to everyone there because they’re all going through this war together. ________ the awesome death rate, they are firmly convinced that the pandemic will surely pass and everything will ________ be fine.