I believe in miracles because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to(被引荐) me who was one hundred and two years old. "There’s a _________ in my upper jaw." she said. "I told my own dentist it’s nothing, but he _________ I come to see you".

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would _________ to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the _________ of her mouth. A careful examination later _________ that it was a bad sort of cancer.

During her next appointment I explained to her the _________ of the problem. She held my hand firmly in hers and said, "I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just _________.

I thought otherwise. After considerable _________ on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to _________ me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected, __________ treatment.

About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and __________, "How are you?" I asked. "I’m just fine, honey," she responded __________ high spirits. "When can I get started on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”

__________ to see her at all, I answered confusedly, "Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it."

I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had __________ nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone-only one small area of redness __________.

I had read of such things happening but had __________ seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then, I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting __________ to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle, __________ through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to __________ the miracles of one another.

Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that a miracle exists __________ we choose to find it.

Lottie Mills, a student at the University of Cambridge, won BBC Young Writers' Award and she was congratulated for her entry(参赛作品) “The Changeling” at the virtual award ceremony. It was a(n) _______   story. Upset about how difference, _________when it comes to disability, is described in novels, Lottie was inspired by "otherhood" and aimed to _______ a positive state of mind.

“The Changeling”_______myth(神话) into magical and wonderful_______   of a girl's powerful coming of age. Lottie said, “As a disabled person, my stories quite often _______ ideas of otherhood, based on _______ who are deserted by their society in some way or another.”

“I had been_______ fairy-related- myths for university essay(论文) and when I came across the idea of changeling, it really stuck in my _______. I really wanted to write a story which would show the ________of disabled people, rather than describe them as disadvantaged and in need of 'fixing' as so many stories do.”

Now Lottie is writing her first novel, a children's book. ________ she knows how life-changing the right story can be, she________ to become an author.

Lottie beat off fierce________ from four finalists. Kate Thisteton, BBC RI presenter and chair of the Young Writers' Award judges, said, "We were blown away by 'The Changeling'. It's simply ________ . I love the way it uses fairy mythology to tell a story about difference, disability and acceptance. I'm so happy Lottie won and is considering a job as an author after being ________by the Young Writers' Award."

Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis have been co-workers for a decade. _________, they didn’t know each other well.

Their spouses each needed a kidney _________, and while Wimbush could have given her husband one of hers, she wasn’t a _________ match. Ellis, meanwhile, was no match at all for her husband.

One day, _________ the fall of 2020, the women saw each other in the office restroom and started chatting,   _________ that patients may wait many years for their name to _________ on the national kidney cadaver donor waiting list. Both women   _________ their husbands didn’t have that kind of time.

Wimbush asked Ellis what her husband’s blood type was.

After exchanging the replies, the women were amazed to find it was a _________ that they were both going through this with their husbands at the same time and they could also be in a position to help. Then Wimbush made a _________ to get tested.

So they did. Antibody tests __________ that each woman was an excellent match for the other’s spouse. And in March 2021, seven months after that chance __________, they made the donation.

The surgery was a success, with no __________. “It’s really just a story about simple __________,” Susan Ellis says. “For us, it started with two people just being good humans.”

Rodney Wimbush says he will be forever __________ that his wife decided to __________ a subject about blood types in the office restroom.