1 . It should have at least been a dunk (扣篮). Everyone in the area knew it as the tall, wonderful _______ flew toward the basket. There was no one within 20 feet of him and no obstacle to _______ him from scoring as he had so many times before. But this time he _______.

Never mind that he was_______ at full speed during a pressure-packed game, with thousands of _______fans screaming at him to miss. As far as I was concerned, there was no _______for missing such an easy, automatic shot. I couldn’t believe it. For the rest of the game, I _______about every missed shot and every bad pass. By the end of the game, I _______ at him through the television screen, “You’re a professional. A professional doesn’t make mistakes like that!”_______, he didn’t play a perfect game.

Later that evening I was doing some filing (归档) when I paused to reread a column from several weeks ago. I stopped when I __________ a typo(打字错误). Instead of “the”, I had written “tje”. But it was an understandable __________. After all, the letters “h” and “j” are right __________ to each other on the keyboard. Anyone could slip and hit the wrong __________. And I was sure the editors would catch the mistake and fix it __________it went into publication.

My eyes went __________ to “the”. And somewhere in the back of my mind I heard a(n) __________ scolding voice: “You’re a professional. A professional doesn’t make mistakes like that!”

I guess it’s __________ that we don’t really have a right to expect __________ in others until we’re prepared to expect it in ourselves. And not just professionally. This is __________true on the highway, in the grocery store, at the movies and most especially in the home. Unless we can offer ourselves as a perfect example, we ought to be willing to excuse others’__________.