Question

 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 _____41_____ that I often became ill. In _____42_____, 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 _____43_____ 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 _____44_____ demand that I pass my physics examination before I obtain a degree, who am I to question their wisdom?”

So I ______45____   for physics again. This time I passed because instead of wasting my time in worrying about how hard it was, I studied _____46_____.

I solved my _____47_____ 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 ____48______.

As I look back at it now, I can see that my problem was one of _____49_____, a lack of willingness to find the causes of my worry and face them realistically.

Answer 1

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