_________, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts (选拔赛) for cheerleaders (拉拉队队员). She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be _________ for her to be selected. Two hours later, the _________ read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart _________ as the list ended without her name. Feeling _________, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving home, she started with math. She had always been a good math student, but now she was _________. She moved on to English and history, and was _________ to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to _________ math for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school __________. Mrs. Biden wasn’t as ____________ as Jenna. “I’m sorry, but we have enough ____________ for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then.” Jenna smiled ____________ and left. “Why is high school so ____________?” she sighed.

Later in ____________ class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much ____________. By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d continue to try to ____________ her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d succeed, but she knew she had to ____________. High school was just as her mom had said: “You will feel like a small fish in a big pond ____________ a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the ____________ fish you can be.”

Wu Lidi, a 48-year-old cleaning lady, was surprised by an exhibition of her paintings held by students at Nanjing University. The paintings _________ were Wu’s works on a blackboard in a student dormitory where she works. The themes of the works _________ from the colorful university campus to beautiful natural scenery.

During the exhibition named “A Cleaning Lady’s Spring,” many students left handwritten messages of _________ to Wu, including “Thank you for your blackboard paintings that have _________ me through four years of my youth.”

While Wu has never received professional training in painting, she has had a _________ for it since she was young. After becoming a cleaner in a dormitory at Nanjing University, she _________ to draw pictures on a blackboard, which _________ had only a few characters reading “Welcome Home.” The attempt became the starting point of Wu’s _________ journey of life and she has since become increasingly _________ to practising painting skills in her spare time.

As her __________ improved, the contents of her works on the blackboard changed from __________ objects to complex landscapes. Her talent and devotion have received much-deserved __________ from students of the university and she has become widely known as “a cleaning lady who could have become a(n) __________.”

Wu is grateful to the students who held the exhibition for her, saying it is their encouragement that keeps her __________ her hobby.

Wu’s story is a __________ that anyone can achieve greatness and inspire others, regardless of their background or position in life.