题目内容：

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel 1.(encourage) by his compliments.

One day, when we learned the new word “eccentric” in class , we 2.(ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do_3. by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy4.clothes never fit him.” 5. (hear) this, the whole classburst into6. (laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. 7._class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped 8. of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must9.(hurt) him deeply.

Not until then did I realize words could be 10. (power) in both positive and negative ways. We should avoid hurting others if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak.