Self-reliance (自立)
Everyone has heard (hear) the word “self-reliance”. Emerson wrote a___41___(fame) essay about it. He felt that people should trust in their own___42___(able). They should think and act for themselves. Like many such___43___(term), this one has no real meaning for me until it was___44___(demonstrate) to me in real life.
Last year I met a blind girl___45___(name) Gail. She was___46___(extreme) slender and weak, but she always insisted on___47___(find) her way around the school by herself. When she___48___(sit) in a room with several of us, there was sometimes a(n)___49___(easy) silence, because we thought she might resent our acting too cheerful and thoughtless in her___50___(present). On such occasions, she would say something casual or show us how fast she could write. She never asked for anyone’s pity. She truly relied on herself.