After the birth of my second child, I got a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced 1 for a few days, I was 2 to wait tables on my own. All went 3 that first week. When Saturday night came, I was luckily 4 the tables not far from the kitchen. 5 , I still felt a little hard to carry the heavy trays (托盘)。

    Before I knew it, the6was full of people. I moved slowly, 7every step. I remember how 8 I was when I saw the tray stand near the tables, it looked different from the one I was9 on. It had nice handles (手柄)，which made it 10 to move around. I was pleased with everything and began to 11 I was a natural at this job.

    Then, an old man came to me and said, “Excuse me, dear, my wife and I loved 12you work. It seems your tray stand has been very 13 to you, but we are getting ready to14 now, and my wife needs her 15back.”

    At first his 16did not get across. “What was he talking about!” Then I got it. I had set my trays on his wife's orthopedic walker (助步器). I stood frozen as ice, but my face was17. I wanted to get into a hole and18.

    Since then, I have learned from many mistakes such as the one I just 19, I have learned to be more 20and not to be too sure of myself.

    The first time Mercado thought seriously about becoming a professional model, she surfed the Internet for someone with a physical disability in the modeling world. That was six years ago, when disabled models were 1. Thus, her search came up empty.

    “I didn't think there was a 2.” she talks of the career she'd imagined "Not because I wasn't worthy of it, but because I didn't see anyone else like me out there. It was just not a thing.” However, Mercado has helped 3 that reality because of her not giving up. Last year, Mercado signed with IMG Models, the powerhouse agency which 4 top supermodels.

    During a shoot, there are certain movements and 5 that are simply not an option for her. But her team has always found a way to work around these 6, and she's never been cut from a campaign because of concerns about her disability.

    "There's 7 been a problem with the team not getting what they need to get from me as a model. There's never been an excuse where it's like—'she has a disability, this is not going to work because the 8 won't look nice.' "She says, "If I'm a model, a clothing company wants to showcase their 9 on me, that's great, "she says. "That's all it should be."

    Her small body has more than a dozen surgical 10 and she fell both nervous and excited when she decided last year to 11 them for a shoot for a lingerie(女式贴身内衣) company. "12 I'm very outspoken with what I believe in, I'm very much of a 13 person still at heart. But I wanted to 14 a challenge. "Mercado liked 15 people that everyone can and should feel attractive in their own skin: "You shouldn't be ashamed of your own 16.”

    In the meantime, she's focused on her work and using her blog to encourage those who want to follow her 17. When the next generation of disabled models searches the Web for 18, they'll find her.

    Mercado 19 her success to confidence, faith and never 20,"I'm an example that you can do what you want, because… "she pauses. "Just because! That's it. You just can. "

    “Oh, no! You're moving?” Such was my neighbor's 1 when she saw household items appearing on my lawn and 2 my driveway.

    “Nope. Just cleaning house!” I called back, smiling.

    This yard sale had been the result of six months of 3. I had searched every 4 and overflowing closet and cupboard—crazy about my seeking to find items to 5.

    I met loads of 6 and friendly people. The Mirror Lady was 7 to buy the antique mirror from my first apartment for her daughter's first apartment; and the Futon Girl, a college sophomore, said my futon (沙发床) and frame were 8 for her dorm room.

    And how can I 9 the Camera Man? Bending absorbedly over the “technology” table, he spotted my husband's faded 10 bag from the early 80s. Zippered compartments (隔包) 11 a broken camera and a few old lenses. “Wow!” he said, as he picked it up and made me a(n) 12. I asked what he was going to do with it. “It's just cool—I have a shelf at home for cool 13 technology.” So apparently he 14 it just so he could look at it. As he walked down the driveway with the dusty bag 15 over his shoulder, for a second I 16 my journalist husband doing the same, heading out to 17 a story. That made me feel 18.

    All yard sales lasted two days. As hard as it can be to let things 19, the true value of those things is to 20 you of a place you lived in, a special time in your life, or a loved one in your heart.

    Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside a(n) 1. Although she was born without arms, that has 2 stopped her from doing one thing: using the 3“can't”.

    Cox got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to 4 using only her feet. She made what's seemingly 5 become a reality. Her certificate6 her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.

    “She's a good pilot and she's strong,” said Parrish, the flying 7 at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. Parrish 8 a company of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's 9 “When she came up here driving a car,” Parrish recalled, “I knew she'd have no 10 flying a plane…”

    Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she 11 early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic（假体的）12.

    Not only did Cox 13 a license to fly airplanes on October 10, 2008, but she also has a college degree in psychology, and a successful 14 as a motivational speaker. What doesn't Cox have? Arms. From 15 on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car and fly an airplane using her feet, without any 16 adaptations.

    “I highly encourage people with 17 were confident enough to consider flying,” Cox said, “It helps 18 the traditional idea that people with disabilities are powerless into the belief that they are19and capable of setting high 20 and achieving them.”

    Think of the ways you use your eyes every day. Imagine your life  1sight. Cover your ears, and  2being deaf and blind for the rest of your life. Think about the songs, the voices, the music you will never  3again.

    For the first 19 months of her life, Helen Keller was  4to see and hear. But then a sickness struck her. She became  5blind and deaf. For the rest of her life, she was never to see or hear. She didn't have memories of sight or 6. And the sickness struck her when she was a baby 7she learned to talk. But Helen Keller became a teacher and writer. She was in the hearts of millions of people.

    8did this miracle (奇迹) happen? For the first seven years of her life she was almost like a 9animal. Her mother and father did not know how to  10her. She screamed, kicked and cried. She wanted very much to have others understand her, but there was no way she could do. 11her parents decided to send for a family 12to treat her. Some went away shortly after they spent a few days with her, until the 13one — Annie Sullivan came, who seemed to be sent here by  14, for during the rest of Helen's life, she stayed with Helen to overcome (克服) a lot of unthinkable 15.

    Sullivan was a lovely young woman with great patience and imagination. She was a born teacher, 16of turning a deaf-blind creature into a useful human being. It was this teacher that did not let Helen's world be  17. Through the teacher's hands and fingers, Helen heard the sounds 18one can hear on a farm, the noises made by cows, horses, chickens and pigs.

    19back on those years, Helen once said, she was greatly struck by her teacher's wisdom and she was very grateful 20 her teacher.

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