Robin asked us to share inspiring favorite words that other people had spoken. As I rolled through ideas in my head. My 36 kept relearning to an event from my youth.
The words spoken were not 37 in their delivery .The person who received them wasn’t me. And, the life-changing event 38 to someone else. But I remember it very well. My friend Evonne was a skinny little girl. We weren’t best friends. But we were 39 .We 40 a classroom every year from 2nd through8th grade. Hing school got us into other groups of fellow students and we kept up our friendship 41 .But then the 42 happened during our senior year that changed her life 43
Mrs. Lee was Evonne’s and my senior advisor. I don’t remember one word the woman spoke to me during consulting .However .I do remember what she said to Evonne .On one particular day, Evonne ,the teary-eyed 17-year old girl 44 Mrs. Lee’s office . She cried , “She might as well have told me I was 45 .She told me ‘You are not college material ’ Can you believe she said that?” Evonne 46 Then the still tiny ,but determined young woman made a brave 47 . “I’ll show her ”…and then she 48 !
Evonne’s head 49 . down in her studies the rest of that year. Following graduation she found employment and began 50 her way through coilege .She liaished her 4 years and 51 to graduaie school (研究生院),Not very years Not very many years later I heard that she had a PHD and became a professor at university in Tennessee 52 words don’t always make someone cleeide to invest (投资) in themselves so wisely.
Whenever I think of the inspiration and motivation that 53 Evonne . I am also 54 that there are many others who are discouraged by the 55 of our words. My story today is in honor of my old friend. Evonne.
36 A opinions | B intentions | C thoughts | D dreams |
37 A accurate | B ridiculous | C moving | D inspiring |
38 A stuck | B ridiculous | C turned | D added |
39 A close | B near | C casual | D unique |
40 A entered | B owned | C spared | D shared |
41 A loosely | B cautiously | C willingly | D totally |
42 A situation | B accident | C condition | D incident |
43 A always | B forever | C temporarily | D totally |
44 A escaped | B locked | C shut | D left |
45 A stupid | B simple | C sensitive | D selfish |
46 A begged | B appealed | C questioned | D commanded |
47 A statement | B comment | C judgment | D arrangement |
48 A nobbed | B tried | C would | D did |
49 A kept | B nosed | C bent | D turned |
50 A changing | B finding | C working | D coming |
51 A wandered | B headed | C immigrated | D rushed |
52 A Encouraging | B Negative | C Appropriate | D Abstract |
53 A persuaded | B proved | C pushed | D created |
54 A told | B informed | C reminded | D advised |
55 A carelessness | B seriousness | C firmness | D vividness |