题目内容：

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” __2.___ 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 out ____6.___(laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. After class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate would have dropped out of school ___7.____ 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 __10.____(hurt) others if we can’t always be encouraging when we speak。