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Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for new _________ in high school.

_________, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to the cheerleading tryouts (选拔赛). She was competing against very talented (有天赋的) girls, and she knew it would be _________ for her to be chosen. Two hours later, the judge 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 happy to find that she didn’t have any trouble with these 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 newspaper but was told that they had enough _________ for the newspaper already. Jenna smiled _________ and left. “Why is high school so ____________ ?” she sighed.

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