I will never forget the night in 1946 when disaster and difficulty visited our home. My brother, George, came home from football practice and collapsed with a temperature of 40℃. After a(n) ____  (1)  ____, the doctor informed us that it was polio(小儿麻痹症). The doctor ____  (2)  ____ told George the truth. "I hate to tell you this, son" he said. "But the polio has taken such a bad influence ____  (3)  ____ you will probably never ____  (4)  ____. again without a limp(跛行), and your left arm will be useless."

   George had ____  (5)  ____ pictured himself as a championship wrestler. Barely able to speak, George ____  (6)  ____:"Doctor...", "Yes," said the doctor leaning over the bed. "What is it, my boy", "Go to hell!" said George in a voice filled with ____  (7)  ____. The doctor seemed shocked, but you see, Morn and Dad ____  (8)  ____ us that just like you would never let someone else come into your house with an axe and break up your furniture, you should never let a ____  (9)  ____ thought come into your mind and break up your ____  (10)  ____.

   The next day, the nurse walked into George's room to find him lying flat on his face peacefully. "What's going on?!" asked the ____  (11)  ____ nurse. "I'm walking." George ____  (12)  ____ replied. Sometimes it would take George 20 minutes just to get out of the chair, but he ____  (13)  ____ any offers of help.

   I remember seeing him ____  (14)  ____ a tennis ball with as much effort as a healthy man would need to lift a 100-pound barbell. I also remember seeing him, six months later, step out on the mat as captain of the ____  (15)  ____ team. No one had ever been known to ____  (16)  ____ so quickly or so completely from this disease. He had been through hell and he came out of it with a ____  (17)  ____ as strong as steel.

   George entered the world of show business and revolutionized television by creating and ____  (18)  ____ such shows as Laugh In and The American Comedy Awards. He also won an Emmy(爱美奖) for his production of Sammy Davis Jr's 60th Anniversary Celebration Special. ____  (19)  ____ challenges, George never ____  (20)  ____ and came back stronger. He had read that if one looks at the roadblocks, he isn't looking at the goal.