Most people know Emily Blunt as a well-known film and stage actress. However, between the ages of 7 and 14 she developed a crippling stutter (严重的口吃) that had her struggling to even hold a simple conversation. “I     1     (曾经是) a smart kid and had a lot to say, but later I just couldn’t say it,” she said in an interview. “I could     2     (几乎不) think I’d be able to sit and talk to someone like I’m talking to you right now.”

For Blunt, it was one junior high teacher in particular that helped her     3     (处理) the problem of speaking by encouraging her to try out for the school play. At first, Blunt did not like the idea, but the teacher wouldn’t give up on her and     4     (真诚地) encouraged her to take acting lessons and experiment with different accents and character voices to help express herself. In the end, those efforts paid off for her. In addition to her    5     (难以置信的) career as an actress, she also became a member of the board of directors for the American Institute for Stuttering.