Learning from Discoveries
When I was in junior high school, I was overweight. So I was not 26. ______ (good) at sports. Other students always 27. ______ (laugh) at me in P. E. class. Gradually, I came to believe that I did not have the talent for sports.
One day, I was playing table tennis with a classmate in a P. E. class when my teacher came to me and said, “You are 28. ______ excellent table tennis player! You should show 29. ______ (you) classmates how to play well.” I was very happy 30. ______ it was the first time I had ever been praised by a P. E. teacher.
From then on, I stopped looking down on myself. And I decided 31. ______ (practice) table tennis every day. After a lot of practice, I became the 32. ______ (good) table tennis player of all the students in my grade. Now I love sports and join others actively in 33._____ doing all kinds of sports: running, swimming, football, basketball, etc. I have become the star of my class at the school sports games. The experience of going from failure to success has 34. ______ (teach) me a lot. I have learned that everyone will make great progress if he 35. ______ (work) hard.