One midnight，a little girl woke up to drink water. She got up by ______，walked to the bedroom door and ______it. She looked outside but walked ______，because it was so dark in the hall ______ she feared.

Her mother said，“Don't be afraid，honey. Take courage（勇气）！”

“What's courage？”she asked，running to her mother's bed.

“Courage ______the brave breath，” her mother answered.

“Mum，do you have courage？”

“Certainly. ”

The little girl held out her cold hands，saying，

“Mum，blow some ______ your breath of courage to me. ”

After her mother blew some of breath into her little cold hands，the little girl clenched her fists（握拳）______，afraid that the “breath of courage”______ run away. Then with her fists clenched，she walked out of the bedroom towards the kitchen with nothing to fear（害怕）.

Her mother said to herself，“It will be ______ if someone can blow some kind of ‘breath’ to me. Then I can also hold it in my hands when I feel terrified. ”

In a word，the thing that we are terrified of is nothing else _______the fear in our mind. The person who we should defeat is nobody but ourselves.