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 |
F. violently |
G. financial |
H. conclusion |
I. devoted |
J. graduation |
Seventeen years ago, when I was in military college, I was known as “the worrying wreck from Virginia Tech”. I worried so _________ that I often became ill. In _____
_____, 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 _____
_____ 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 __________ demand that I pass my physics examination before I obtain a degree, who am I to question their wisdom?”
So I __________ for physics again. This time I passed because instead of wasting my time in worrying about how hard it was, I studied _____
_____.
I solved my _________ 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 ____
______.
As I look back at it now, I can see that my problem was one of __________, a lack of willingness to find the causes of my worry and face them realistically.