I can’t swim because I have a strong fear of water. Look back 1. ________
　　my childhood experiences, I think that three reasons might          2. ________
　　explain the fear. The first reason is that I was not allow to go       3. ________
　　near the water when I was a child, for my mother had a            4. ________
　　unreasonable fear of it. So, even as a child that I was taught to     5. ________
　　see the water as something danger. Second, my eyes              6. ________
　　became bad when I was five. If I took off my glass in the           7. ________
　　water, I couldn’t see anything, or this increased my fear.          8. ________
　　The worst part of my experience is that as a child I saw            9. ________
　　a neighbor drowned. After then I have been more frightened.     10. ________