As one of the most common students. I pulled myself through every day hoping to stay invisible(隐形的)，yet somehow I wondered why it was impossible for anyone else to ____1____ me.
Then one day, a simple ____2____ from a teacher changed my life.
That day, Mr. Curtis, our band director, played a B-flat pitch and asked us to tune(调音) our instrument one by one. As he listened，his serious face and impatient steps showed his ____3____ with each note. No one ____4____
My turn was coming soon, and I was fearful. I had to play all by myself while others sat and listened! I felt ____5____ in my chair.
“Maya! It’s your turn. Play!”
“It was only a note.” I closed my eyes, and took my turn. I played my single note quietly, and with all the feelings I had felt that year. I poured my heart into that one moment of music, and the sound echoed softly through the room. I was right on pitch, but I didn’t ____6____ Mr. Curtis’s reaction.
He looked at me as if for the first time; his serious face relaxed into a relieved smile. “That is what I have been ____7____! That was a perfect note!” And then he said something I have never forgotten. “Maya, that one note has earned you an ‘A’ this year. Keep it up.”
Nobody could imagine my ____8____ at that moment. I had remained unnoticed for so long, yet Mr. Curtis helped me see my ____9____
One ray of light came into the shadow of my school life, and a seed started to sprout(发芽). Thanks to Mr. Curtis， I found a place to ____10____