Self-reliance（自立）

Everyone has heard （hear） the word "self-reliance". Emerson wrote a（1）_____ （fame） essay about it. He felt that people should trust in their own（2）_____ （able）. They should think and act for themselves. Like many such（3）_

Self-reliance（自立）

Everyone has heard （hear） the word "self-reliance". Emerson wrote a（1）_____ （fame） essay about it. He felt that people should trust in their own（2）_____ （able）. They should think and act for themselves. Like many such（3）_____ （term）, this one had no real meaning for me until it was（4）_____ （demonstrate） to me in real life.

Last year I met a blind girl（5）_____ （name） Gail. She was（6）_____ （extreme） slender and weak, but she always insisted on（7）_____ （find） her way around the school by herself. When she（8）_____ （sit） in a room with several of us, there was sometimes a（n）（9）_____ （easy） silence, because we thought she might resent our acting too cheerful and thoughtless in her（10）_____（present）. On such occasions, she would say something casual or show us how fast she could write. She never asked for anyone's pity. She truly relied on herself.

1.famous

2.ability

3.terms

4.demonstrated

5.named

6.extremely

7.finding

8.sat

9.uneasy

10.presence