题目内容：

My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel _1.___(encourage) by his compliments。

One day, _2._ we learned the new word “eccentric” in class, we __3.__(ask) to make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy __4.__ clothes never fit him。” _5.__(Hear) this, the whole class burst into __6._(laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. __7.__ class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped out of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must__8._(hurt) him deeply。

Not until then did I realize words could be powerful in_9.__positive and negative ways. We should avoid hurting _10.__(other) if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak。