Directions: In the text, the author explains why we should choose optimism. Please scan the text and finish the following blanks with the words in the bracket. (poverty,profound, crisis, good, odd,adopts, rational, service, self-fulfilling, exsit, solution, positive, accomplished, negative,benefited,) There is enough good and bad in everyone's life to find a 1) _______ basis for either optimism or pessimism.e.g. The author is in his 70's. He has lived through more than one 2) _______ . But when all is said and done, he finds that the 3) _______ in life is far greater and more important than the bad. Negative thoughts, attitudes, and expectations feed on themselves; they become a 4) _______ prophecy.e.g. The author was feeling great when he drove into a 5) _______ station. The attendant told him he looked sick, and before long, he was actually feeling sick. When a whole culture 6) _______ an upward look, incredible things can be 7) _______ . When the world is seen as a hopeful , positive place, people are given the power to attempt and to achieve. Optimism doesn't need to be naive. You can be an optimist and still recognize that problems 8) _______ and some of them are not dealt with easily.e.g. Think in 9) _______ terms about how to address the issue rather than criticizing money spent on another program. Without optimism, issues as big and ongoing as poverty have no hope of 10 _______ ).