【推荐1】Zora woke up early on Saturday morning, ________ for her long-awaited trip to the mall with her friends. They had planned this shopping spree (狂欢) for weeks and she had been ________ the days. Zora always had one ________ item she planned to buy for her mum.

As they walked past a fabrics store, Zora’s eyes ________ up. She had been saving up for months to buy a sewing machine for her mum to help patch (缝补) ________, and she knew this store carried it. She dragged her friends inside, and as soon as she ________ the sewing machine, she knew it was the one.

But when Zora checked the ________ tag (标签), her heart sank. It was much more expensive than she had ________. She started to feel disappointed and considered giving up on her ________ of helping her mum.

Her friends noticed her ________ and decided to help her. They took out some money and encouraged her to buy it, telling her how much her mum ________ it. With their ________, Zora decided to spend on the sewing machine, and as she walked out of the store, she felt a sense of pride and ________.

The rest of the day flew by, and they headed back home. Zora realized that her ________ were the real friends she had. They had helped her at the important moment and created ________ that she would cherish (珍藏) forever.

【推荐2】In my freshman year, I asked myself, “Why am I in school?” I thought I was forced to be there, but I decided just to get along with it until I could find it _________.

One day it finally hit me. We were studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in our _________ class. Each of us was asked to _________ a part, and I jokingly _________ to play the nurse. They all laughed, thinking that I, a boy, couldn’t play it, _________ I decided I was going to be the best nurse ever to appear on the stage of the freshman writing class. On the day of the _________, I walked slowly onto the stage and put my heart and soul into the play. The _________ look on my peers’ faces let me know that my performance was excellent, and then I knew what _________ meant to me. School was then a place where I could explore _________ areas in my mind. Perhaps this realization had __________ appeared before I had never been brave enough to __________ it.

To feed my new-found hunger for learning, I decided that I wouldn’t be __________ any more. I began raising my hand higher in class discussions; I was at the point where I no longer felt __________ to take part in, but did because I wanted to. In oral communication class, I chose unpopular speech __________ like “The Flat Tax” and made them __________ by creating characters. In British literature class, I chose to write a song for a creative project on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. __________ these creative activities, I made classes interesting not only for me, but also for my classmates and teachers.

In short, I’ve discovered that __________ is not something teenagers are forced to experience. __________, learning is a way teenagers grow. What I want to __________ my classmates is that I’m a brave and creative actor, musician and writer, whose __________ each of my teachers knows by the end of their first class, and will be reinforced each day through my brave behavior.

【推荐3】As a new teacher, I was sent on my first practical class at a middle school. During my class, I_________ something terrible in the school and realized it could be a place lacking justice and_________among the students.

Jess was an 8th grade student who always _________her classmates though lack of respect in return. Kids constantly _________her behind her back. Tyson, a 12th grade student, was handsome and always_________ by his classmates. When the school talent show came around, Jess asked to _________a solo(独唱) act. I hesitated to allow her to take the stage, fearing that she might _________challenges. However, I knew it would be_________to say no, so her name was onto the list of performers.

The day of the show, the whole school gathered in the hall. The _________began and I was pleasantly surprised when each performance was greeted with __________and praise. Then it was Jess’s __________. The music started and, to my horror, she missed the first line of the__________. She became nervous, and forgot her lines. As she__________through the song, kids whispered and laughed. Jess looked very embarrassed and was about to__________when the most amazing thing happened. The sound of somebody__________with the beat of the song began to rise above the crowd. I looked around to see__________it was. It was Tyson. He was clapping loudly, __________his friends to join in. Slowly, the claps spread from Tyson’s group to the rest of the students, then__________the hall. Soon the encouragement made Jess find__________. As the song ended, the whole audience cheered.

The smile on Jess’s face that day is one I’ll __________ forget. Tyson changed my life by regaining my faith in the kindness of youth.

【推荐2】I was 12 then in the summer of 1941. One day, my dad _________ my little brother, Joe, and me with the news that we were going all the way to San Francisco, California for the Word’s Fair (世博会) on Treasure Island.

The day before we set out, mama fried up one of the chickens we raised _________ we’d have our own travel meals. We _________ our hair in snoods (束发带) which were very popular then. Mama had also bought me a handbag that matched hers, and from then on, it went everywhere with _________.

The trip from Alabama to California took a full 3 days. In California, we _________ the ship for Treasure Island each morning to see sights at the fair. I remember seeing and hearing Benny Goodman and his Big band playing their popular dance tunes for _________ in an open-air theater.

On the way home, we changed trains in New Orleans. During the two-hour stopover, everyone in our family was tired _________, we were on the train heading back home to Birmingham when I discovered that I had _________ my handbag in the New Orleans train station.

I felt _________ and started crying and Dad tried to __________ me in his usual calm manner. Mama scolded me for being so careless.

A few weeks after we were home, Dad returned from work one day with a __________. He had __________ the New Orleans station, where a woman had found my handbag and returned it to Dad.

Through all these years, my handbag has been __________ me around. It is __________ a lovely handbag. It is a __________ of happy times with my family.

【推荐3】Rebecka Peterson, a high school math teacher, is the nation’s 2023 Teacher of the Year. Her first year of teaching wasn’t without its _________, but she remembered why she was there and wanted to bear those _________ thoughts in mind. So she _________ the One Good Thing blog.

It was _______ and fun, really. Every evening, she would write on her blog, _________ “one good thing she experienced that day. She gave her blog the tagline; “Every day may not be good, but there is one good thing in every day.”

She encouraged her ________ to do the same in their handwritten journals. Just a few minutes a day to ______ something good that happened—that would be enough, she _________. She believes that it will make them happier and more ________ to learn.

During her eleven years in teaching, Peterson has_________ that some students find math difficult. But her efforts to make it _________ made her the 2023 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. From there, she_________ to win the nation’s 2023 Teacher of the Year.

Peterson has travelled around the country, talking to teachers about bringing ________ back into Classrooms. Her goals include emphasizing the positive experiences students have not only with math but with learning ______. She hopes her stories will attract new teachers to the profession and give ________ to current ones.