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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。
I was in the ninth year when I began to suffer depression. My parents noticed but felt that since I’d always been a good child, this was temporary.
____61____ (fortunate), it was not to be so. I didn’t have friends. Hardly could I share my problems. Deep worry began to destroy my confidence. Finally I refused to attend classes, ___62___(shut) myself in my room for hours.
The examination was approaching, but I simply didn’t care. My parents and teachers were surprised 63 my bad performance. One morning, after ___64___ particularly severe lecture from my father, I stood at the school gate, _____65___ (depress). Then as the other students marched to their classrooms, our headmaster called me. The next forty-five minutes was one of ____66____ (precious) moments in my life. She said she ___67____ (notice) a big change in me and wondered why. At first she took my hands in ____68_____ and listened patiently as I mentioned my worries. Then she hugged me as I wept. Months of frustration and ____69___ (lonely) disappeared in her motherly hug.
No one had tried to understand ___70___ the real problem was except the headmaster, who helped me out simply by listening and hugging.