2 . When I was a child in 1970s, my family was very poor, just     1     other average families in the countryside. The second-hand clothes and rain leaking roof of old house became part of my memory. However, the worst    2       (impress) is that I was feeling hungry all the time. Sometimes hunger bit me so severely     3     I regarded dried sweet potato slices as delicious snack. At that time, my dream was getting enough to fill my empty stomach.

In the early years of 1980s, with the reform and opening-up policy     4     (carry) out, the children’s dream came true. And then,     5     dream became clear and clear in my mind, I must try my best to escape out of my poor and backward hometown. I worked     6     (hard) at my study than most of my classmates, and, after lucky     7     (succeed) in the national college entrance examination, I realized my dream again: after graduation, I became a citizen working in a city. As the first college graduate out of a remote village, I set an example for my folks.     8     came to realize that schooling is a good way to change one’s fate. In the     9     (follow) years, there were fewer dropouts and more college graduates in my village, of     10     I am proud even today.