lost anger appreciated course attending misdirected quiet reverence convinced silence voice utterd lectured sound pursuing A turning point is the time when a big event happens that changes the 1)_____ of our life. My mother 2)_____ me to study business in a community college although I had no real interest in business. I might not have finished college if it hadn't been for the two astonishing sentences that an economics professor 3_____ . On a fall morning, when the professor 4)_____about macroeconomic theory, I began reading a novel by Jack London. I was 5)_____ in my reading so that I didn't notice that the professor was walking towards me. When he reached my desk and snatched the book from my hands, I was terrified by the absolute 6)_____ in the classroom. However, instead of criticizing me, the professor said in a very loud 7)_____ : "This student won't be spending the rest of his life studying columns of debits and credits. He is interested in literature." He pronounced the word literature with genuine 8)_____. I spent the next few weeks pondering his reaction. If an economics professor valued literature as much as or even more than economics, perhaps the study of literature would be something worth 9_____. Then I changed my major to English, raised my grades and 10)_____ school for the first time. Now I'm doing what I'm really interested: writing books.