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!