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.