Eva started to practice calligraphy (书法) at ten. But Eva didn’t make much ________. She asked her teacher whether it was because she wasn’t smart enough. The teacher told her, “________ talent is important, it’s not the key.” At the same time, he wrote one word “compel (逼迫)” on a piece of ________. Eva was required to write again and again by the teacher. But there was still no progress and she had to keep finding the answer.

Until one day she heard a saying, “If you want to climb over a ________, please throw your hat out first.” Eva ________ understood the teacher’s words. Because your hat is on the other side of the wall, you have already had no choice but to ________ some ways to climb over it. Sometimes, we need some pressure to ________ ourselves. We often think that our life has a lot of paper. But ________, the paper of life is limited.

In order to achieve her dream, Eva decided to make full use of every second of her life. For life, the most ________ thing is how to write the best words on limited paper rather than how much paper we have used. If we want to achieve our goals, we can’t just find excuses to ________ our time. What we should do is to make efforts to go ahead.