I. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. In the first year of lower secondary (1) _________, I had some difficulties inlearning English. My English pronunciation was really bad and my English grammar was (2)_________ . I did not know how to improve (3) _________. I didn’t want my father andmother to know about (4) _________. One afternoon after the lesson, my teacher (5)_________ English told me to wait (6) _________ her outside the classroom. She took me tothe school library and showed me tapes of pronunciation drills kept in a glass bookcase. Shealso told me how to use an English- English dictionary to (7) _________ my Englishgrammar. “Now I think you know what you should do” she said. I made (8) _________progress and only one year later, I won the first (9) _________ in the English SpeakingContest (10) _________ for secondary school students in my home town.