It was four o'clock in the morning, when I received a phone call.

"This is the emergency room calling and your son was just ___in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for a(n)___and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle." Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately it was ___.

The doctor described the ___which caused the burns. Our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they ___the charcoal (木炭), it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline. The flames ___my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head. __, one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and ___him on the grass. While the boy saved his life, it was not in ___to save him from severe burns and terrible scars (伤疤).

After he ____from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery (整容手术) within six months ____it took that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So, he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch, very ____scar on her arm, " Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not ____it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you."

I ____this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to ____and returned to school with his head held high — glad he was alive.

By the end of the six-month waiting period, he thought that the scars did not ____, so he made the ___to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have "scars" that we believe ____people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if we look different, or dress differently, people will like us better.

But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same ____standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value ____yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

Sitting in front of the computer, she efficiently logs in to her email and social media accounts using her chin (下巴).“I used to be very ________. Back then I would never have imagined myself with so many friends,” said Wang Yajing, a 24-year-old woman who is paralyzed (瘫痪) from the neck down.

Wang was born in 1992 in Fuyang. Different from other little girls,   she was born with cerebral palsy (脑瘫), ________ to move from the neck down. But Wang did not ________ living the life she wanted. In 2008, she ________ herself to operate a computer mouse and keyboard with her chin, and began to ________ poetry on the computer. For the next eight years, Wang ________ unimaginable difficulties and published over 4, 000 poems and stories.

________ her writing, Wang also devotes herself to people ________. She holds lectures and ________ people she meets online. She has a lot of friends on all her social media accounts. Whenever they have trouble and need to ________, Wang always listens to them ________ and encourages them to stay ________.

“I know I can’t solve their problems, but I am willing to ________ their sadness. When they are ________ and lose hope, I can be there to stop them. Because I know everything will be okay in the end and life is too ________ to give up.” said Wang, smiling.

Sometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength.

Take, for example, the ________ of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study judo (柔道), although he had lost his left ________ in a car accident.

The boy began ________ with an old judo teacher. The boy was doing well, but he couldn’t understand why, after three ________, the teacher had taught him only one move.

“Teacher,” the boy ________ said, “Shouldn’t I be learning more moves?” “This is the only move you’ll ever ________ to know,” the teacher replied.

The boy didn’t quite ________, but he believed in his teacher and kept ________.

Several more months later, the teacher took the boy to his first tournament. The boy easily ________ his first two matches. The third match was a little ________, but after some time he used his one move to win the match.

Still ________ by his success, the boy was now in the finals.

This time, his opponent was bigger, ________, and more experienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be ________. The referee (裁判) was worried that the boy might get ________. He was about to stop the match when the boy’s teacher said, “No, let him ________.”

Soon after the match started again, his opponent made a big ________: He dropped his guard. The boy quickly used his move to pin (压住) him. The boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the ________.

On the way home, the boy asked his teacher: “Teacher, how could I win the tournament ________ only one move?”

“You won for two ________,” the teacher answered. “First, you’ve ________ one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only defense for that move is for your opponent to grab your left arm.”