Robin asked us to share inspiring favorite words that other people had spoken. As I rolled through ideas in my head, my   1  kept returning to an event from my youth.

       The words spoken were not  2  in their delivery. The person who received them wasn’t me. And, the life-changing event  3  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  4  . We  5  a classroom every year from 2nd through 8th grade. High school got us into other groups of fellow students and we kept up our friendship  6  . But then the   7  happened during our senior year that changed her life 8  .

       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 Zevonne. On one particular day, Evonne, the teary-eyed 17-year old girl  9 Mrs. Lee’s office. She cried, “She might as well have told me I was  10  . She told me ‘You are not college material.’ Can you believe she said that?” Evonne  11  . Then the still tiny, but determined young woman made a brave  12 . “I’ll show her!” …and then she  13  !

       Evonne’s head 14  down in her studies the rest of that year. Following graduation she found employment and began  15  her way through college. She finished her 4 years and  16  to graduate school（研究生院）. Not very many years later I heard that she had a PHD and became a professor at a university in Tennessee.

       17  words don’t always make someone decide to invest（投资） in themselves so wisely. Whenever I think of the inspiration and motivation that  18  Evonne, I am also  19  that there are many others who are discouraged by the  20  of our words. My story today is in honor of my old friend, Evonne.

1．A．opinions                B．intentions             C．thoughts              D．dreams

2．A．accurate                B．ridiculous            C．moving               D．inspiring

3．A．stuck                    B．belonged              C．turned                 D．added

4．A．close                    B．near                    C．casual                 D．unique

5．A．entered                 B．owned                 C．spared                 D．shared

6．A．loosely                  B．cautiously            C．willingly              D．totally

7．A．situation                B．accident              C．condition             D．incident

8．A．always                  B．forever                C．temporarily          D．rapidly

9．A．escaped                B．locked                 C．shut                    D．left

10．A．stupid                 B．simple                 C．sensitive              D．selfish

11．A．begged                B．appealed              C．questioned           D．commanded

12．A．statement            B．comment             C．judgment             D．arrangement

13．A．nodded                B．tried                    C．would                 D．did

14．A．kept                    B．nosed                  C．bent                    D．turned

15．A．changing             B．finding                C．working              D．coming

16．A．wandered            B．headed                C．immigrated          D．rushed

17．A．Encouraging        B．Negative              C．Appropriate         D．Abstract

18．A．persuaded            B．proved                C．pushed                D．created

19．A．told                     B．informed             C．reminded             D．advised

20．A．carelessness       B．seriousness       C．firmness        D．vividness