Self-reliance (自立)

　　Everyone has heard (hear) the word “self-reliance”. Emerson wrotea____41____ (fame) essay about it. He felt that people should trust in theirown____42____ (able).They should think and act for themselves. Like manysuch____43____ (term), this one had no real meaning for me until itwas____44____ (demonstrate) to me in real life.

　　Last year I met a blind girl____45____ (name) Gail. Shewas____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 roomwith several of us, there was sometimes a(n) ____49____ (easy) silence, becausewe thought she might resent our acting too cheerful and thoughtless inher____50____ (present).On such occasions, she would say something casual orshow us how fast she could write. She never asked for anyone’s pity. She trulyrelied on herself.