I was hurrying to our basketball game one morning. Hillary Barnes, the most popular girl in the school, stopped me. "Are you the twin(双胞胎之一) who won the art competition?" she asked. "No, that's Christine. I'm Katie," I said.
My twin sister Christine and I were not the same. In fact, Christine was quite excellent. I couldn't do so well as1 . Compared to Christine, I felt like one of Cinderella's ugly sisters. One Saturday Christine gave me a painting lesson because I was expecting to be an artist, too.2 I knocked over the bottle of paint. Instead of becoming angry. she turned the whole 3 into a dreamy masterpiece(杰作)and won First Prize in the art competition.
I wanted to be excellent, too. Joining Christine's basketball team was my latest 4 to be like her. On the way to the gym, I made up my mind to do best in that day's game. As soon as I arrived at the gym, I couldn't wait to 5 . "Christine, here!" I threw her a ball. It was too high and she missed it. The ball fell onto the recorder(录音机) and broke it. It was used to play the national anthem(国歌)before each game.
How bad! Coach looked at the mess and asked, "6 are we going to play the song now?" Christine suggested, "Let Katie sing it! She's always singing at home and she's got a nice 7 ."
Coach asked, "Would you?" "Yes, I would." I said. I looked up to the flag and began to sing. My voice was so 8 that everyone could hear me. When I finished, the gym was silent. Then it was filled with cheers. As the game started, my teammate said to me, "You should try out for the school musical!" I 9 and said that I might.
The next morning, Hillary Barnes stopped me in the hallway and asked, "Are you the twin who 10 the national anthem?"
"Yes, that's me." I would never think that I was not as perfect as Christine. Well, just be myself?
