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When Mrs. Green asked us to discover our professions（职业）, the whole class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be _______. “Yes, you will all be searching for your future _______. Each of you will have to _______ someone in your field and give an oral report.”

Each day in her class, Mrs. Green talked about this. Finally, I picked print journalism(新闻业). This _______ I had to go to interview a true newspaper reporter. I was nervous. I sat down in front of him _______ able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”

I shook my head.

“How about some _______?”

I shook my head again.

Finally, I thought he _______ I was nervous, and I got my first big tip(建议) as a _______：“Never, never go anywhere without a pen and paper. You never know what you’ll run into.” After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from_______in class. I got an A on the project.

Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career(职业), but with no success. Then I________ Mrs Green and my dream at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t ________ me. They just reminded me how competitive the field was and ________ all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my________. It gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was ________.

For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, ________ stories from Olympic Games to car accidents and ________ choosing my strongest area. ________ I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible（令人难以置信的）wave of memories hit me and I realized that ________ Mrs. Green I was able to be sitting at that desk.

I get ________ all the time：“How did you pick journalism?”

“Well, you see, there was a teacher…”I just wish I could ________ her.