Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. desperation
| B. authorities
| C. diligently
| D. confusion
| E. enrolled
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F. violently
| G. financial
| H. conclusion
| I. devoted
| J. graduation
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Seventeen years ago, when I was in military college, I was known as “the worrying wreck from Virginia Tech”. I worried so ____小题1:_____ that I often became ill. In _____小题2:_____, I poured out my troubles to Professor Baird, professor of business administration. The fifteen minutes that I spent with Professor Baird did more for my health and happiness than all the rest of the four years I spent in college. “Jim,” he said, “you ought to sit down and face the facts. If you _____小题3:_____ half as much time and energy to solving your problems as you do to worrying about them, you wouldn’t have any worries. ”
I figured that I had failed physics because I had no interest in the subject. But now I changed my attitude. I said to myself, “If the college _____小题4:_____ demand that I pass my physics examination before I obtain a degree, who am I to question their wisdom?”
So I ______小题5:____
for physics again. This time I passed because instead of wasting my time in worrying about how hard it was, I studied _____小题6:_____.
I solved my ____小题7:_____ worries by taking on some additional jobs, such as selling punch at the college dances, and by borrowing money from my father, which I paid back soon after ____小题8:______.
As I look back at it now, I can see that my problem was one of _____小题9:_____, a lack of willingness to find the causes of my worry and face them realistically.