Choose the correct words to complete the passage.
the professional basketball player was much taller anyone else in the room. everyone kept staring at him in
awe y me. you see, i'm way y thinking being tall is something unusual. i've been just over seven feet
tall since i was sixteen years old. once, when i was a little kid, i tried balancing a weight on my head. i walked
around for an hour to see if it would get me to stop growing. it had no . i still managed to grow a full six inches
that year!