My stepmother walked over to me, __4__ my head
slightly upward,and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied,“You are __5__.This is
not the worst boy at all,__6__ the smartest one who hasn't yet found an outlet(释放的途径)for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a(n) __7__ between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my __8__ as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She __9__ my father to go
to a dental school,from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat,where my father's career could be more __10__
and my brothers and I could be better __11__.
When I turned fourteen,she bought me a secondhand __12__ and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm,I __13__ it,and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her __14__ and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of __15__ that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life's work later. I wasn't the __16__ beneficiary(受益者). My father became the __17__ man in town. My brothers and stepbrothers became a physician,a dentist,a lawyer,and a college president.
What power __18__ has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one's purpose and is __19__ strengthened by faith,it becomes an irresistible(不可抗拒的)force
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