1 . 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Ritch Addison was ashy kid. In elementary school, he didn’t speak up for himself, and he 1 (worry) a lot. But once he went to high school, he made up his mind 2 (develop) a sense of humor to make more friends. His new approach worked and he started to become known for his jokes—like the time he made fun 3 a classmate’s poor score on a math test.
“It turned out that I had gotten a hundred on the test and he didn’t do so well,” Addison recalled. “And I joked heartlessly about it.”
Then one day, his good friend, Holly, pulled him aside and said, “Ritch, sometimes you really hurt 4 (people) feeling.”
Addison 5 (shock). He had always seen himself as the one who made his friends laugh. He couldn’t imagine that he might be hurting them.
“But I kept thinking about what Holly said. Finally, I realized that she was 6 (absolute) right. I started paying attention to 7 other people was reacting to my humor,” he said.
It couldn’t happen overnight, 8 . “Over the years, I worked on 9 (be) more compassionate(同理心的) toward the people around me since I wanted to have 10 different kind of relationship with them,” he said.