Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the words in the box. listener in trouble underestimated unburden sympathetic The power of a sympathetic ear can never be ___1___ . Dale Carnegie was once invited to a bridge party. There he chatted with a lady who talked about Africa for 45 minutes without asking Carnegie anything. She just wanted an interested ___2___ . Abraham Lincoln also did the same thing during the darkest hours. he talked for hours with a friend and didn't ask for his opinion. All Lincoln wanted and needed was a ___3___ and friendly listener to whom he could ___4___ himself. That is really what we want when we are ___5___. li