A large cat arrived at a farm where many mice lived. None of them dared go outside for fear of being   _________by the cat.

The mice decided to hold a _________ to find a way of stopping themselves from being in _________.One day，when the cat was out，mice of all ages _________ into the meeting room.

"Let's build a big trap，"one mouse _________.When this idea was _________，another said，"What about poisoning（毒死）her？"But _________ knew where to buy the poison. One young mouse，whose mother had become the cat's food，_________ said，"Let's cut her teeth，so she can do no more harm." But the meeting did not accept his _________.

At last，one mouse，__________than the rest，jumped onto a table. Waving a bell，he called for __________，"Be quiet！Let's __________ this bell to the cat's tail，so we'll always know where she is！We'll have __________ to escape，and the slower and weaker mice will hear her coming and be able to __________！"Hearing the words，everyone got __________ and they congratulated him on his good idea.

"We'll tie it so tightly（牢固地）that it will never __________！"

"She' ll never be able to __________ quietly again! The other day, she suddenly appeared right in front of me! Just imagine..."

However, the wise mouse said, "We must __________ who is going to tie it to her tail." There was not a sound in the room. Nobody was __________ enough to put the plan into action. The meeting ended without any decision made.

It's often very __________ to have bright ideas, but putting them into practice is a more difficult matter.

When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to ______. I bought twenty chickens and asked him to ______ them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would ______ the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken ______ with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was ______ would be his to keep. Gene was ______, thinking he would make his first ______.

After several weeks’ successful work, I began to ______ that egg production was going down. I ______nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have ______ money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never ______ a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped ______ eggs.

Then I asked him if he had ______ the amount of feed he had given the chickens, he was ______. It was like he did not think anyone would ever ______ what he had done. After a long ______, he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them ______ food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”

I was just astonished at the question in my own ______. I was dumbfounded (惊呆) at the ______of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, but you cannot “fool the chickens,” because ______, you will find out, as the saying goes, “What goes around comes around.”

When struggling to reach a goal, don't let limitations control you. Use them as ________ to push beyond your comfort zone. That way you'll find ________ solutions and become better familiar with your inner ________ which determines how you'll ________ barriers in life.

In the July 2016 issue of Guideposts, Bryan Anderson, an Iraq War soldier, told his story of ________ the biggest battle he ever faced. At 20, Bryan ________ the Army and was shipped out on September 11, 2001. Towards the end of the ________, he was behind the wheel of a jeep in Baghdad when a roadside bomb ________. As a result, Bryan lost his left hand and both legs. Several days later, Bryan ________ up in Maryland, at a Medical Center with his mother by his side. It was in that hospital that his mother said the words that ________ the course for the rest of his life. She said, “You have basically two ________ here, move on-or roll over and die?” He ________, “Move on.”

While in physical therapy, Bryan noticed that the patients who were making ________ were the ones who accepted their injuries and worked hard to move forward. From the start, Bryan pushed himself; he ________ to let his injury prevent him from living life. Today, Bryan lives a ________ life and is a motivational speaker. Bryan's story is a powerful reminder that we too can overcome our limitations.