Ⅲ. 阅读短文,从方框中选择恰当的单词,并用其适当形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。每个单词限用一次,其中有两个单词是多余的。
at, hard, change, up, before, win, happen,
down, choose, practice, come, part
Life is not easy, so I'd like to say, “When anything 1. ______, believe in yourself!” When I was a young boy, I was too shy to speak to anyone. My classmates often laughed 2. ______ me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later, something happened, and it 3. ______ my life. It was an English speech competition. My mother asked me to take 4. ______ in it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak 5. ______ all the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on, boy. Believe in yourself! You are sure to 6. ______.” Then my mother and I talked about many different topics. At last, I 7. ______ the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to remember every word of my speech and 8. ______ it over 100 times. With my mother's great love, I did well in the contest. I could 9. ______ believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place. I heard the cheers from the teachers and students. Those classmates who once looked 10. ______ on me, now all said congratulations to me.

1. happens 2. at 3. changed 4. part 5. before 6. win 7. chose 8. practiced 9. hardly 10. down