阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
In my opinion, we should try our best   (realize) our goals even though   is little hope. The efforts seem to be the lights in the darkness, leading the way to hope and success.
I used to be   shy girl in my primary school. I was weak in English at that time, especially for   (speak) English. So I was afraid to answer the teacher’s questions during English classes. After I entered my dream middle school. Something (change). I started to read many   (interest) English stories and my English teacher was patient to help me a lot. I studied hard in class and practiced by watching English films and listening to English songs in my free time. Little   little, I found  more and more interesting to learn English. I could even talk with my classmates   (fluent) in English and I was not shy any more. At last, I got high grades in English and I had  ( confident) to do it better in the future.