I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people___    I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a____person.
I think my ____    _started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my____    _and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever_____     to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really____    _. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n)  ___    _. I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I___    _ to help. That was really a big___    for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of___    _are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new____    __, however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my____     . Every time I came into her room, she was so ______    _  because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never____    __her, so I took her place. She let me ____    ___that making others feel good made me feel good, too. When she died, I was____    _, but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much_____     person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not_____    _ these experiences. They have ____     me to care about other people more than about myself. I _____    __who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

A．since B．before C．or D．unless

A．famous B．simple C．different D．skilled

A．education B．career C．tour D．change

A．balance B．homework C．degree D．interest

A．talked B．wrote C．lied D．reported

A．careful B．lonely C．curious D．guilty

A．argument B．game C．experiment D．defence

A．dared B．offered C．hesitated D．happened

A．dream B．problem C．duty D．step

A．us B．which C．them D．whom

A．attitude B．hobby C．hope D．luck

A．friend B．partner C．guide D．guest

A．polite B．happy C．strange D．confident

A．bothered B．answered C．visited D．trusted

A．explain B．guess C．declare D．see

A．homeless B．heartbroken C．bad-tempered D．hopeless

A．quieter B．busier C．better D．richer

A．forget B．face C．improve D．analyze

A．forced B．preferred C．ordered D．taught

A．miss B．like C．wonder D．expect