My son Joey was born with club feet (畸形足) .  The doctors told us that with ___1___   he would
be able to walk   2  but would never run very well. The first three years of his   3    were spent in surgery(手术) . By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a 4  when you saw him walk.
     The children in our   5   ran around as most children do during play,and Joey would jump right in and
 run and play,too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be   6  to run as well as the other children. So he didn' t know.
      In seventh grade he   7  to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others. Perhaps he 8  that the abilities that seemed to come   9  to so many others did not come naturally to him. 10  the entire team runs, only the top seven runners
have the 11   to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team,
so he didn't know.
     He    12   to run four to five miles a day , every day-even the day he had a fever. I was   13 , so I went to look for him after school. I found him running alone. I asked him how he felt.
" 14  ," he said. He had two more miles to go. The   15  ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from
his fever. Yet he looked  16   ahead and kept running. We never told him he   17  run four miles with a fever. So he didn't know.
     Two weeks later the names of the team runners were 18  . Joey was number six on the list. Joey had
made the team. He was in seventh grade-the other six team members were all eight-graders. We never
told him he couldn't   19  to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. We never told him he
couldn't do all those things. So he didn't know. He   20  did it.