【推荐1】Juleus Ghunta is a published children’s author and award-winning poet. But when young, he could ________ read.

He grew up with his three sisters in rural Western Jamaica, raised by their single mother. Life was tough, and proper schooling was out of the question due to ________ resources.

When Ghunta finally went to school, he couldn’t ________ on reading. Not only had he been kept home from school as a child, but he had not been ________ to books.

By sixth grade, he could spell his name, but still couldn’t make out words or read with ________. He struggled in school with a deep sense of ________ and worthlessness.

At age 12, a young teacher-in-training ________ a special reading program for ________ students. Ghunta was the first to join. That teacher, whose name he does not ________ now, became Ghunta’s unsung hero — the person who changed his life.

The teacher was incredibly kind to him. Under her guidance, Ghunta’s reading skills saw marked improvement, and his sense of inadequacy began to ________.

“She had left me with the gift of literacy,” he said. “And a deeper ________ of my talent.”

After Ghunta’s experience with the teacher, his life course ________. He graduated with academic ________ and is now the author of two children’s books, including “Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows.”

Years later, Ghunta returned to his old school and asked the principal and teachers if they knew her ________, but none did. Carrying this memory, however, he still hopes to find and thank her for seeing his ________ and being a source of light and hope in his life.

【推荐2】When Shelby Lattimore, a math and science teacher, saw her third graders weren’t attending class, she found a fun way to change that. The 25-year-old teacher started her class ______ to encourage them not only to ______ but to get excited about learning.

In the class, students can choose from a variety of “______”, from being a door holder to being a cleanup crew. They get “paid” every two weeks and the ______ they get depends on which job they take on. The money is not real but play money spent on a homework pass, a seat change, and so on.

Each month, Lattimore’s students also have to pay “rent” for their class desk and chair. To keep things interesting, Lattimore also introduced a new ______ to her current class. At the beginning of the school year, she ______ students $5 and then once the new year hit, the ______ increased to $7. “So that was kind of an ______ that they had to make,” she said.

Students can buy rewards once a month. The reward ______ low, medium and high price ranges, with $2 candy being the cheapest option to a more ______ $5 “lunch with Ms. L” reward. Students can also ______ until they have enough money for the most expensive reward, for example, being the teacher for $ 30.

Today, Lattimore has seen how much they’ve learned about various ______ from budgeting and saving to reading a receipt and ______ change. She has also heard from students’ families, who are ______ of this idea because their kids are learning something they never learned at this age. “That’s really the goal here, to not just ______ them this year, but to keep it going,” she added.

【推荐3】My 70-year-old mother was fighting an 18-year battle with cancer. It was a battle I knew she would someday______.Maybe soon. And it______my heart to think about that.

Mom and I had a good relationship, but we just weren’t______in the way I was with my daughter. Mom and I never______or said “I love you” like I often do with my daughter. Sometimes I felt______about Mom’s love for me. Then the pandemic hit. Our city was in lockdown to______the possible infection(感染). Therefore, I didn’t come to Mom’s place but made daily phone calls instead. We didn’t say too much, but we knew we cared about each other. “ I’ve set about quilting(缝被子), and I’ll make one for you,” my mother announced______over the phone one day. I tried to ______her suggestion as it was too tiring for her, but she insisted.

My quilt was Mom’s last one. A month later, I got a call from Dad saying Mom was gone. A great sense of_______overwhelmed me-the pandemic took away my last chance to see Mom and show my love to her.

One day, I decided to give quilting a(n)______myself for my daughter. I carefully______the fabric(面料) I thought she would enjoy, and maybe I was still trying to make a______between Mom and myself in this way. I always thought what had______her to quilting late in life. I imagined asking her for______       on how to make the right stitches(针脚). Sometimes I’d______us sitting together in the living room watching TV together.

Finally, I got the quilt Mom______ me. I opened it and what I saw caught my______.It was exactly the same fabric I had chosen for my daughter. Yet something far more difficult to______at last became clear. Mom, in her own way, had ______ said those three beautiful words “I love you” I______ to hear.