【推荐1】I was said to be the worst student in my class, and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to _________ grade six. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia, came to our school.

One day after class, she noticed that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came to me and began to talk to me. It was just a _________ conversation. After that day, she gave me particular _________ and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling that someone believed me, and my _________ started to improve in her subject.

Months later, she moved into a house near my _________. We would walk home together after school. Her constant(不断的) support helped me, _________ in my studies, as I knew she would check my grades both in her subject and the other subjects. I finally _________ second in my class.

Then, after grade six, she started to slowly drift away(疏远) _________ still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in grade seven, we hardly spoke, but by then I had become the _________ in my class. When I left my school, I was __________ with her, as she never answered the __________ when I called her.

Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths(路) __________ again. I met her at a wedding. I could not __________ asking her, “Why did you stop talking to me?”

“You are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree standing on your own roots, not depending on others. Now here you are and I feel __________ of you. You are your inspiration and do not need to __________ a shoulder,” she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I’ll always thank her.

【推荐2】Sam was very nervous. It was his first day in new _________, and lunch was only thirty minutes away. For most students, lunch is the _________ part of the school day. It is time when you talk with your friends, get to know what interesting things everyone is doing, and, of course, _________. Sam, however, didn’t know anyone or anything, like where to sit or with whom to sit at lunch.

Sam’s _________ was in the army, so his family moved a lot. He had really liked his old school and _________ leaving his two best friends. They still talked to each other through phone calls and emails, _________ he couldn’t see them every day. He wondered if their _________ would continue. He didn’t want to lose them, but he knew it would be _________ for them to stay close.

“I know this is hard on you,” his mother said as he got ready for school this morning, “and I’m really _________ you have to keep changing schools.” Sam could see regret in her eyes, but he didn’t want her to feel that way. ______________ had always been ready to defend (保卫) not only the family but also the country. Sam loved her so much. He gave her a smile and told her not to ________________. He had wanted to mean it, but there was still always worry in him when they moved.

The ______________ time came quickly. As Sam was walking to the dining room, a voice behind him said. “Excuse me.” Sam ______________ and saw five friendly faces.

“Would you like to join us?” asked one of them.

This ______________ invitation was exactly what he needed. Sam nodded yes ______________ and joined them. He was sure about his future school life now.

【推荐3】I had never expected such an answer from my son.

I was 28 at the time and my son had just been ___ into elementary school, and was sitting on a park bench (长凳) with me, telling me all about his friends and teachers in the new school. I could tell that he was extremely ___. Looking up at the cloudy blue sky while I ___, I was having a hard time thinking of questions to ask him about his new ___, probably because he was answering every single one of them before I even ___ them.

Being in America, there are people of many ___ races and nationalities that live here, ___ I decided to ask him about those people. He loved ___, and if he heard someone who had a different ___ or something like that, he would ask them where they were from. It was ____ for me. I thought he was being rude and didn’t ____ it. But the people would always ____, and tell him where, whether it was the UK, China — you name it. ____, he would get into his seat in my car and， demand that I take him to the ____ so that he could learn about those places. I would ____ do it, giving him chances for every bit of ____ he desired. He would even tell me fun facts and things that I didn’t know about. He was ____ the word “foreigner”, even though he had no idea what it ____. I signed and spoke, “So, David, are there any ____ at your school?” He looked at me ____ the biggest smile I had ever seen, and swung his legs back and forth on the bench.

“No, Daddy. Just kids.”

【推荐3】When 29­-year-­old artist Sophia recalls her mother, Marilyn, she remembers her singing. “She loved karaoke and funny 80s’ _________，” Sophia says. “She sang all the time.” In late 2017, before cancer_________Sophia’s mother of her voice, she_________a message in English and_________it inside a teddy bear: “You make Mommy so proud. No matter where you are, a part of me will always be with you. I love you forever.”

After her mother’s death in 2019 at age 53, that teddy bear became Sophia’s most priceless _________. Therefore, when the backpack containing it was _________in the mess of moving, Sophia was_________. She spent that night crazily_________ through dustbins in downtown Vancouver. When her_________proved fruitless, she took her hunt to the Internet, ____________ photos of her lost Mamabear and the security video on Twitter. A local CBC reporter ____________the story, and the news made it all the way to an actor, who encouraged his 17 million Twitter followers to help Sophia, ____________ a $5,000 reward for the bear’s safe return.

____________, Mamabear made it back to Sophia’s arms four days later, thanks to some good­hearted people, who ____________ the thief from the security video Sophia had shared on social media. Sophia was excited: “I feel like losing that bear and __________ it was just my mother telling me, ‘The world is okay, kid. You’re going to be fine. I will always be with you.’”