As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on other musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just ______ to sing. Anyhow their ______ were humorous enough to be copied by other groups. They were so popular that their fans formed clubs in order to get more ______ with them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs ______ by other musicians. ______, after a year or so in which they became more ______ about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they     ____ their own records and started touring and playing their own music. In the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more ______. The band ______ up in about 1970, but happily they reunited in the mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, _______which they celebrated their former time as a real band.

The doctor examined Nuala’s leg. Nuala tried not to cry, but it was a (n) _________. Her leg really ached. “How did you _________ yourself?” asked the doctor.

“I jumped off a swing,” said Nuala. “Is it _________?”

“It sure is,” said the doctor, holding out the X-ray. “See right here?”

Two hours later, Nuala left the hospital on crutches (拐杖). Her leg was in a cast (石膏). “What will I tell Ms. Chang? I shouldn’t have…” She felt a deep _________.

Ms. Chang was Nuala’s dance teacher. The spring dance performance was _________ two weeks away. Nuala’s cast would be on for at least six weeks!

“She’s going to be so _________ with me!” groaned Nuala. But Ms. Chang wasn’t. She said, “We’ll think of something.”

Nuala felt _________ going on stage with her crutches. “I look stupid,” she _________. “I can’t dance with these.”

“Have you ever heard of the _________, ‘The show must go on?’” said Ms. Chang. Together, they __________ the dance. They thought of how Nuala could move to the music. They brainstormed ways for her to dance on __________.

The night of the __________, Ms. Chang almost had to __________ Nuala onto the stage. Nuala’s cast looked __________ and awkward, but she went out and danced. At the end, the audience went wild clapping. They threw roses at Nuala’s feet! The show did __________!

At the age of 12, I withdrew into my bedroom with my guitar. I had neither musical talent — many_______music lessons had proved that — nor musical training. My fingers ached as I tried to press down on the strings without making them buzz (发出嗡嗡声). _______, I worked my way through 2-, 3- and even 5-chord (和旋) songs and discovered the _______ thrills of these musical notes. No one _______ me to do this. I did this myself and of my own free will for a week, and the sense of happiness－ true happiness _______ in absorption in something － has _______ me. Fifty years later, that week’s self-directed practice became a model and _______ for almost every meaningful thing I have done since. It makes me understand the _______ between achievement and accomplishment.

The world favors achievement while _______ accomplishment. The former is the completion of the task imposed (强加) from the outside — the ________ being a path to the next task. The latter is the end point of an activity we have chosen, whose bonus is the sudden ________ of happiness.

The seeking of accomplishment always ________ people. I learned so long ago in that ________ week that simply lifting one finger from the guitar’s C chord, you should get the most moving ________ in tune. I didn’t know then it was a major 7th chord, a favorite of some masters’. I just ________ accomplishment. That’s real human “achievement”.