When I was about 12, I had an enemy. A girl liked to point out my _____ Week by week her _____ grew: I was very thin; I wasn’t a good student; I talked too much; I was too _____ , always feeling superior to others, and so on. I tried to hear all these as long as I could. _____ , I became very angry. I ran to my father with _____ in my eyes.

He listened to me _____ , and then he asked, “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever _____ what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s _____. Go and _____ a list of everything she said and mark the points that are ______. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”

I did ______ he told me. To my great ______, I discovered that about half the things were true. I couldn’t ______ some of them, but a good number I could — and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I had a fairly ______ picture of myself.

I brought the list back to Daddy. He ______ to take it. “That’s just for you,” he said. “You know the truth about yourself ______ than anyone else. But you have to learn to ______, not just close your ears in ______, feeling hurt when something said about you is true, and you’ll find it of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your affairs. Don’t ______ your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”

Daddy’s advice has always ______ me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.

   At 7a.m.on October 2，2016，I got up，feeling excited and nervous. The first thought in my mind was，"Today's game is my first _____ football game." I'd played before but not like this，not in pads（防护垫），not with a helmet on my head and my heart started beating faster. I _____ finished breakfast and left for the field.

The whole time on the bus，I felt sick and nervous. Finally，I reached the field. ____that white numher7 jersey（运动套衫）for the first time made me feel ____ .I felt like football was my fortune.

We stood there. By the look on our faces，you could see who had _____ before and who hadn't. To me，it felt like a war. I was a（n）_____ soldier going into battle. Now I know that feeling was fear. We had _____ ，but not the real game. In training，we took a form and knew each other. In the _____ you don't know your opponent's strength. Everything just happened _____ you know it was happening.

We did warm-ups and some of us couldn't ______ to play，jumping around and yelling. Others stood still waiting for the direction. The referees（裁判）came out. We knew the game ______ came. As a captain，I went out for the coin toss to see which team would get the ball first. Campus Magnet won the coin toss. They ______ to receive.

Soon the game ______ and I caught up with the ball carrier and ran at a full speed. I lowered my shoulders and ran to his side with all my _____ ，knocking him down and at the same time knocking my ______ out. I rose to my feet and ______ what I had done. I'd made my first tackle（阻截）.I was ______ my dream，feeling renewed. That tackle encouraged me，giving me strength，______ and the desire to go on.

We ______ that game--8 to 6. That year we went undefeated, ______ every team on our schedule, and I was rated the best receiver in our division.

It's not unusual for youth nowadays to speak more than one language, but 32-year-old Muhamed Mesic can communicate fluently in 56 different languages.

As a little boy, Muhamed 【小题1】（discover）to have an unusual talent for quickly learning to communicate in different languages. Once he was on vacation with his family in Greece, he was able to figure out 【小题2】 the locals were saying from the situation they were in.

But that was only the beginning of his journey to mastering as many languages 【小题3】 he could. When he was nine, he picked up Swedish from the Swedish soldiers in his town. Soon after, he went to Hungary and managed to learn Hungarian as well. And he 【小题4】（become） fluent in the Baltic language in just 2 weeks, with the help of YouTube and 43 cartoons.

Though having the great ability 【小题5】（learn）foreign languages quickly, Muhamed also devotes almost all of his time to 【小题6】（study） them. "The more languages you speak, the 【小题7】（easy） it is to learn new ones, because many of them have lots of 【小题8】（similar）, "he says.

Today, Muhamed speaks an 【小题9】（impress）56 different languages, from common ones like English or Portuguese, 【小题10】 Japanese and Georgian, and even languages that most of us have never even heard of, like Kinyarwanda or Quechua.