学进去

It’s hard to forget the time when I stood in front of all my classmates and forgot my words while I was giving a speech. ___ that, I didn’t want to join in any class activities for a long time. __, things began to change one day.

A week before my school’s English festival, my teacher asked me to make a speech in front of the ___ school. I didn’t want to, but my teacher ___ me to think about it carefully and gave me a piece of paper. “The ____ step to success is the willingness （意愿） to try, and the key to it is to work hard”, I was encouraged by this and decided to have a try.

I finished ____ the speech on paper in a day and practiced it during my lunch breaks. I also asked my teacher for suggestions. As a result, ____ speech was a success. Since then, I’ve become more active and ____. I ask and answer questions in class more often and I ____ many different after-school activities.

I learned that the road to success is difficult and we need to have ____ and work hard.