Last year, a community theatre decided to find someone to act in The Sound of Music. My husband said our daughters and I might enjoy being a(n) _________ of it. But there was one problem: I’d never sung _________.

We prepared to audition (试镜). But when the day came, I started to get cold feet. My children looked to me for courage. Giving up would set a bad example and I had to encourage _________.

“Whether you are chosen or not isn’t important — doing your best is what matters,” I’d been telling them. Now I had to _________ it.

I sang my song, _________ to look confident. My daughters _________ quite well. To our surprise, we all made it!

In the following days, I sang to the cat and the dishes when I was at home alone. I knew I’d have to get over my _________ because I’d never sung in front of so many people. I told my friends and family about the _________. Everyone wanted to see it since I was in it with my daughters. I didn’t want the theatre to be _________, but I didn’t want it crowded either.

The show went off smoothly. Friends all __________ us. After that experience, I braved more auditions and even learned to enjoy singing on stage.

He was no scholar, and his classmates teased him. Rather than read, the future director really preferred running around with an 8 mm camera, ______ homemade movies of his Lionel train set, which he showed to friends for a small fee.

After being denied ______ into a traditional filmmaking school, Steven Spielberg enrolled in California State College. Then in 1965, he ______, in one of those unexpected moments, his life took a complete ______. Visiting Universal Studios, he met Chuck Silvers, who was in charge of the editorial department. Silvers ______ the kid who made 8 mm films and invited him back sometime for a visit.

He ______ the next day. Without a job or security clearance (安全许可), Spielberg, dressed in a dark ______ and tie, walked ______ up to the guard at the gate of Universal and gave him a casual wave. The guard waved back. He was ______.

“For the entire summer,” Spielberg remembers, “I dressed in my suit and hung out with the directors and writers, including Silvers, who knew the kid wasn’t a studio ______, but winked at the deception (骗局). I even found an office that wasn’t being used, and ______ in. I bought some plastic tiles and put my ______ in the building directory (名录): Steven Spielberg, Room 23C.”

It ______ for everyone. Ten years later, the 28-year-old Spielberg ______ Jaws, which took in $470 million, then the ______ movies of all time. Dozens of films and awards have followed because Steven Spielberg knew what his teachers didn’t — talent is in the eyes of the filmmaker.