【推荐2】At twelve, Nico Leonardo is in secondary school, but he has run his own free private school to help other children and even some adults with their studies.

Leonardo loves to _______, and he wants to pass it to others. After seeing some of his classmates _______ to keep up at school and some children spending much time playing and _______their studies, he made up his mind to _______them. Last year, he told his grandmother that he wanted to _______ his own school and asked her to help him build it next to her _______. She agreed, and today Nico’s school has nearly 40 students. He is _______ that his school has already made a _______ to many of the children attending there.

Nico’s school is pretty _______ compared to most regular schools. __________, with the help of neighbors, it’s larger and getting better every day. The school has benches and desks, a small __________ with about 100 books, a blackboard and even a bell.

But what’s most __________ is the quality of the education and his __________ to helping others. He lives 20 minutes away from his grandmother’s home, but every day he gets on his __________ after school and rides to his school to teach classes on different __________ like math and grammar.

Sometimes, when his students cannot attend the school __________, he runs the classes at night to ensure they don’t __________ on their studies.

Though most students are younger than him, there are a few __________ attending classes at the school as well. He does his best to help them __________ the subjects they struggle with, and many admit that attending his school has __________. “It helped me to pass the grade.” one student said.

【推荐3】I took my six-year-old son Joe on a weekend trip to the University of Virginia, my alma mater (母校). I had planned out every detail _________ and wanted my son to become familiar with something dear to me. I _________ him my dorm, my favorite breakfast spot, and even the bar where I’d worked in my _________. All of this registered with my son, but without the _________ I expected. _________ , we were running out of things to do.

I asked Joe what he wanted to see. I would never _________ his response: “I would not mind finding a swing set (秋千).” That’s when it _________ me that while I thought I knew every inch of my college town, I had no idea _________ to look.

_________, I remembered the Venable Elementary School, something I’d __________ countless times but never really noticed. We parked in the lot, empty on a Saturday, and I __________ my son and watched him delightedly swing back and forth.

What did I learn on that trip? First, travel is great fun and often leads to __________. But maybe greater happiness is just around the corner. Second, do not rely too much on your __________. Do your best but stay __________, and always remember what John Lennon said: Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. Third, there is always a new way to __________ things, no matter how much you think you know.

【推荐2】I still remember my first fishing experience as if it were yesterday. I have been _______many times in my life (like when I got admitted to the best school), but never more intensely(强烈地) than when I received that first fishing _______from my uncle.

My uncle, who knew by long _______where pickerel(梭鱼) would gather, _________placed me at the most favorable spot to fish. I threw out my line and waited anxiously for a bite, _______the float up and down rapidly on the surface of the water. But_______ came of it. “Try again,” said my uncle. Suddenly the float _______out of sight. “Now for it,” thought I, “here is a fish at last.”

I made a strong pull, only to bring up some weeds. Again and again I threw out my line with aching arms, and drew it back empty. I looked at my uncle _______. “Try once more,” he said. “We fishermen must have _______.”

Suddenly something pulled at my line, and swept off with it into deep water. Pulling it up quickly, I saw a fine pickerel wriggling(扭动) in the sun. “Uncle!” I cried, looking back in uncontrollable ________, “I’ve got a fish!” “Not yet,” said my uncle. Just then, I saw the scared fish shooting into the middle of the river, my hook(鱼钩) hung ________ from the line. I had lost my prize.

My heart sank with it and I felt like a ________. We tend to speak of the sorrows of childhood as matters of little importance ________ those of grown-ups. Controlled by reason and self-respect, the sorrows of grown-ups keep the social customs and rules of conduct ________ the sorrows of childhood are a complete abandonment to the passion. The toy is broken, and the whole world ________ with it.

So, overcome with my bitter disappointment, I refused to be ________, even by my uncle’s guarantee that there were more fish in the river. He refitted my bait, and, putting the pole again in my hands, told me to try my luck once more.

“But remember, boy,” he said, with a smile, “it’s no use boasting of(自夸) anything before it’s done, ________ it speaks for itself.”

How often I have been reminded of the fish that I did not catch ________! When I hear people talking about their distant aims as if they had already been achieved, I bring to mind that ________by the riverside, and the wise warning of my uncle takes the form of a proverb of__________application: “NEVER BOAST OF YOUR FISH BEFORE YOU CATCH HIM.”