Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling. I woke up every Saturday to _______ my favorite “superstars.” My peers would _______ me for following what was called a “man’s soap opera.” So I put my _______ for wrestling on the shelf. Like everyone else, I wanted to be invited to the _________ and hang out with the popular kids. I became pretty successful. _______ my Friday evenings were busy with parties, I’d still wake up early on Saturdays to watch wrestling. It wasn't until freshman year that I_________ I wasn’t being myself. That year, I _______ many new things and activities. In my town, football was the popular sport, so I decided to play football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity. But I didn’t do it well. That _______ taught me a lesson: I wasn’t a football player. More importantly, it _______ me to be myself. After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan. I came across a quote: “Don't dream it. Be it.” When I ________ this, my friend Dan had the same ________ I had. “What if we build a wrestling ring?” we asked. We acquired the necessary wood and equipment for its ________. The following weekend, we ________ in his backyard. We worked the whole day to build our great establishment. By Sunday night, our mission was ________. Our hard work had paid off. We had a real ________. We decided to hold an “event.” We ________ for hours, trying to improve our wrestling ability. The date was May 24th. Our ________ had a start time of 9 p.m. To our surprise, about one hundred friends and fans showed up to ________ us. It was the most ________ night of my life and a complete success.

We are now well known throughout school. When I walk down the halls, I'm ________ by my peers, who know I did something I believed in, despite what others said or thought.

When I was in my college, I have a full class schedule and a part-time job. I_________had time for exercise.

What’s worse, I ate much fast food. Undoubtedly, I was _________ .

After graduation, I decided to go to the_________. Together with a friend, I began to _________ regularly. I was very satisfied. We went to the gym every day. My friend, however, became_________. One day, he suggested that we take up a sport.

I was not _________ , so I didn’t want to take up a sport. And no one was going to change my mind. However, after a few weeks, I stepped onto an outdoor racquetball(壁球) court unwillingly. I hit the ball, sending it flying in every direction except for the direction that I had _________

But as I was beginning to feel comfortable, my _________suggested we play tennis instead. Tennis? I can’t play tennis! I was strongly against my friend’s new_________. However, weeks later, I found myself standing on a tennis court. Awkwardly, I __________after every ball that he served to me, completely __________about ninety percent of them, and hitting the rest into the woods and the other court.

The first few months were quite__________. But one day, as the ball came flying toward me, my racket and the ball finally met in what tennis players consider as the “sweet spot(最佳击球点) ”. I __________ in surprise as my return landed powerfully on the other side of the court, almost exactly where I had aimed. I finally learned how to play tennis!

Obviously, if I hadn’t stepped outside of my comfort zone, I would have never __________ how much I enjoyed tennis. I began to try new things willingly with a sense of__________.

When I was a young student, none of my friends listened to classical music. Few learned to play an _______ for more than a year or two. They were listening to the big bands. But dad _______ me to learn to play the piano and I studied for three years. And later, you know, I gave it up. But one day one thing changed me _______.

One Saturday, I went to a _______ birthday party of one of my classmates and there were quite a crowd of people of my _______. And some of the kids were fooling around at the piano while the parents are _______ us a big meal. Then one of the girls _______ stopped talking, looked at me and said, “Robert, you took piano lessons. _______, play something!”

“No, I’m not going to play the piano.” I _______ that no one in that room would show________ in the kind of music that I could play. But though I was ________ objecting, I was pushed by my friends toward the piano. I was “________” to sit down. And there I was face to face with eighty-eight black and white ________.

What to play? The only thing that came to my ________ was Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. So, I began with the slow ________. And after two measures I became aware that there was a ________ in the room. After the next two measures, I felt people ________ toward me, and then the parents came out of the kitchen ________. I played the whole first movement and when I was through, the applause and cheers were ________ to believe.

If I had known that this would have happened, I never would have given up ________ playing the piano.