学进去

   Lifeart is a student-run organization which was _________ by one of my best friends at my school in Boston, US. It sells _________ by our friends and classmates and raises money for cancer(癌症) research. To collect more money, we set out onto the streets of Boston to sell our paintings to the public last spring.

We came to the subway station in order that we could get more _________. Things didn’t go well at first. It was _________ that day, so our paintings kept being blown away. All of us were quite _________ and were slow to ask people if they would consider buying our paintings. We were also worried about being driven away.

One of our girls, Luna, tried to talk to our first customer. Although he did not buy anything, it gave some _______ to the rest of us. With every new customer Luna brought to our little stand(货摊), we had more courage. I also stepped forward and talked to a Korean woman _________. I felt a bit embarrassed when she said that she didn’t have time. But thanks to this short conversation with the stranger, my courage _________. I kept talking to more people, including some Chinese people. At the _________ of the day, we sold about 20 pieces of paintings. It might not be as much as we had expected, __________ the courage that we got made up for the day’s shortcomings(不足).