| final, nine, understand, complete, fill, easy, make efforts, piano |
All the runners stood nervously at the starting line. All of them had prepared themselves for this important race.
Bill's life was with disappointment. Primary school had been a long hard time for him. Of all the reading skills, he even couldn't pick up the one though he had tried many times. Bill tried hard. But in the following years he still failed to catch up with his classmates.
Then one day his teacher said, "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but Bill isn't trying anymore. He has given it up ."I was afraid that Bill might have forever lost heart, although he .
I had a talk with Bill. "Though I was the slowest one in primary school, my parents and teachers were really . Because of that, I went to a music school . Now as you know, I'm a . We think achievements come easily to others. Life usually isn't like that. The person who has succeeded is usually only a few percent." It seemed that Bill had realized it.
In the grade, Bill went out for the race again and won the first prize.
