Self-reliance（自立）

Everyone has heard （hear） the word "self-reliance". Emerson wrote a（1）_____ （fame） essay about it. He felt that people should trust in their own（2）_____ （able）. They should think and act for themselves. Like many such（3）_____ （term）, this one had no real meaning for me until it was（4）_____ （demonstrate） to me in real life.

Last year I met a blind girl（5）_____ （name） Gail. She was（6）_____ （extreme） slender and weak, but she always insisted on（7）_____ （find） her way around the school by herself. When she（8）_____ （sit） in a room with several of us, there was sometimes a（n）（9）_____ （easy） silence, because we thought she might resent our acting too cheerful and thoughtless in her（10）_____（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.