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. ________
