I dreamed of being a football star when I was a high school student. During my first year there I was a very ________ boy. I was only 50kg. I joined in some football games but spent most of my time ________ on the bench (替补队员席). So I decided to do ________. Drinking a lot of milk made me much ________. Before the football season started, I thought I could make ________ succeed in being stronger at last. But I was soon ________ when I saw that I was still smaller than most of the other boys.

During one of the ________ of the season, the teacher let me play first. I was ________ and jumped up and down. But I still lost.

I lost many times. I hoped to be a ________ player. But finally I found that I couldn’t make it ________. For a long time I was really unhappy about this and thought about giving up. ________ as time went by, I knew that enjoying the feeling (感觉) of working hard was necessary. In fact, the ________ wasn’t the most important thing. Now, my friend is celebrating for me in a party because I ________ a football game this morning. I didn’t succeed before. It is the ________ time that I have won a football game. I succeed after lots of ________. I never give up and fight on.

Darrius was born with three fingers on his right hand and one on his left hand. He had to work hard to do things that were easy for _______. Every time his classmates tried to help, he would say, “Thanks, but I can do it myself.” He learned to use the four fingers to do different _______.

When Darrius was 10, he told his father _______ he liked piano music very much. “It’s too bad you can’t play,” his father said. _______ the boy took that as a challenge. “I will show people that I can,” he said to himself.

Months later, a neighbour gave him an old piano when she moved _______. He taught himself to play the piano and _______ for hours a day.

Darrius’s favourite piano music is River Flows in You by Yiruma, a Korean musician. It took Darrius a year to learn it. When he succeeded, he felt so proud. Later he was lucky enough _______ the music together with Yiruma at a famous concert hall! He was so happy that he _______ well that night when he knew the news. Yiruma encouraged Darrius to follow his _______ of playing his own music. Darrius has made it. And his music is ________ today.

“I may have a disability,” he says, “but I don’t let it hold me back from anything.”

On the day of the interview, I got up at 6:00 in the morning. I got to the interview place without having ______. I was the 24^th interviewer(应聘者) and the 22^nd was a short ordinary-looking girl. I greeted her by ______ my head. I asked her where she graduated(毕业). She told me in a low ______. "I graduated from a junior college(专科学校). I was the only one without getting a bachelor's degree(学士学位) among the 50 interviewees."

I didn't ______ the interview would last so long. As I didn't have breakfast, my stomach started to ache. I had to sit by the table for a ______. Just at that time, the girl asked me ______ happened. I told her, "I didn't have breakfast this morning, so my ______ comes to me."

After a while, a worker came in and ______ me some bread. It was certain that they were bought by the girl. I felt ______ all over my heart because I hadn't imagined she would be so nice to help me — her rival(竞争对手).

Luckily, I got the job. The first day I went to work. I was ______ to see the girl there. She also got the job. Later I asked her why she got the job. She said ______ a smile. "That day when I bought you the ______, an interviewer went to the toilet with papers in hands. He asked me ______ I could help him to copy those papers while he was in the toilet. I helped him. After I came back to him, he asked me why I took the food in hands. I told him the ______. Then I got the job." At that moment, I came to know that when the girl helped me and the interviewer, she also helped ______.

Helping others means helping yourself. Do you think so?