【推荐1】Last month, Koch went to make breakfast and found a(n) ________ guest using his pool. A large moose (驼鹿) was swimming in the deep end,________ in the solar cover (太阳能覆盖膜).

“I looked out in the backyard and there’s the moose absolutely scared and ________,” Koch told The Dodo. “She stepped on the solar cover and put her ________ through it and she was ________ trying to get free.”

Koch has noticed more wildlife around his home in Ottawa, but he had ________ seen an animal this impressive before. He rushed outside and ________ the solar cover off the poor moose, who continued swimming around the pool, proving to be a ________ skilled swimmer.

The wild moose seemed to be having trouble finding her way out of the pool, so Koch called the police and wildlife services to see if they could ________ a hand. “She looked so pitifully sad out there that my wife said, ‘I want to give her a ________.’”

Workers from wildlife services intended that they would get her to a safer spot, but they couldn’t ________ it until she was out of the water. “The ________ thing that happened was that after 3.5 hours she climbed out of the shallow end and ________ the fence,” Koch said.

The moose ________ unhurt, but the same can’t be said for Koch’s pool — which now has two hoof-sized (马蹄大小的) holes in the ________.

【推荐2】Early in my teaching career, I heard countless(无数的 )excuses for why students didn’t have their homework. As time passed, I grew tired of hearing“ I don’t have my homework because…”, so 1 stopped accepting any ______

______ I taught in a new inner-city school. I______my eighth graders with“ No excuses! ”I ____homework at the beginning of each class. when a student didn’t have it. I never asked why. ____, I sighed loudly, shook my head and recorded a zero. I soon gained the reputation(名声)I thought I wanted.

One afternoon, shortly after school. Anthony______me. His lower lip quivering(轻微颤抖).“It’s just that……well, my _______work at night. I have to look after my little brothers. so I can’t _____. My homework.……”I put my hand on his shoulder. “Why are you just now telling me……？”I______in mid-sentence. I knew why. So I changed the______. “Would it help if you stayed here______school?”He swallowed hard and nodded.

The next day, I announced to all my students that I’d be_______an after-school study. Before long, more_______joined Anthony, I soon had a large number of ____, such as “I don’t have my homework ______ I don’t have any paper in the house. ”All, however, were very_______.

The things I learned weren’t_______in the education classes in college. I have discovered that not all kids have enough school______.Some don’t have a home where a parent is_______around. I have also learned that “I’ll listen”works a lot ______ than“No excuses!”

【推荐3】I was so worried about handing my little boy over during his first week of school, but Miss Anna made it easier. Miss Anna smiled at him like a mother would at her own child. Miss Anna radiated (流露) warmth and her hugs were always on _________.

After a day in class with her, Ben would come home _________. Whenever I heard his song about the days of the week, I would _________ her. I didn’t tell her at the time, but I loved her morning song so much that I _________ it in my own class.

Her creativity was _________. I’ll never forget the children’s faces when she beautifully _________ the classroom into “the Deep Dark Wood”. I remember their _________ faces talking about “the Magnificent Tower Building” she’d created.

In the short time I knew her, she taught me about the type of teacher I am _________ to be. She never seemed _________ by the mountain of paperwork or impossible work-life balance that comes with the __________. Instead, she appeared to __________ every minute.

I can’t understand why she has been taken from us. Telling Ben was one of the __________ things I’ve had to do. I’m not sure whether he fully __________ where she is. I hope everything she taught him about the place where good people go when they die is __________.

I wish I had told her all of this when she was with us. I hope that she knew the extent of her __________, and how loved she was.

【推荐1】The world’s largest painting has been sold in Dubai for almost $62 million. British artist Sacha Jafri created the painting and ______ a Guinness World Record.

During the spread of COVID-19 last year, Mr. Jafri was in Dubai. Rather than feeling ______ because he was unable to go out, the painter ______ to take on a big project that could “make a really big ______ ”. He planned to create the world’s largest painting. He ______ children around the world to ______ their own pictures showing how they were feeling during that ______   time. He got artwork from kids in 140 different countries.

Using the children’s ______as a starting point, Mr. Jafri began to paint in a ______ ballroom at a fancy hotel. He ______ included the children’s drawings in the artwork. He ______ long hours—often up to 20 hours a day. He hurt his back by ______so much while he painted. It took over 1,000 ______ and 1,664 gallons of paint to create the painting. When he ______ seven months later, the painting, called “The Journey of Humanity”, was roughly the ______ of four basketball courts.

Jafri had aimed to ______$30 million for children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic when it went under the hammer. As a result, Andre Abdoune, the artwork’s new owner,   ______ more than double that after he knew that the ______ would go to charity(慈善). He said that the energy and love Jafri ______ to the painting was so ______ .

【推荐2】The dream of many people is to leave their mark on the world however they can. This could be in countless different ________ , from coming up with a new invention to simply starting a family. No matter what it is, ________ the world in some way is the purpose of many lives.

That's ________ makes the Renaissance-an art period which centered in Italy between the 14th and 17th centuries-the era of world-markers.

When we hear the word “art”, it's very likely that we'll imagine a work from the Renaissance period. This was a time when many believe art made a revival（复兴）—“renaissance”, ________ , means to bring new life to something.

Take the works of Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci for example. His painting Mona Lisa became one of the best-known ________ on Earth. While many artists left their marks by bringing beauty to the world，Da Vinci did much more than that. The artist was fascinated with the study of human anatomy（解剖学）and even ________ time dissecting human bodies to help with his studies. Da Vinci also proved his ________ in many other areas，and he created sketches of ideas for many inventions，from bridges and machinery to even a helicopter and a robot.

The Renaissance also played host to many other great names in the world of art. Italian painter Raphael, for example, was another leader of this era. But his most famous work isn't ________ on a wall today. Instead, his masterpiece-the Raphael Rooms of Italy's Palace of the Vatican-is the wall. The walls and ceilings of the palace are filled with beautifully ________ paintings of the Bible scenes, which he started as a young artist in 1508.

Religious works such as Raphael's were the ________ style of the Renaissance period. We only have to look at the most iconic sculpture of that period-and perhaps ________ —to realize that.

Italian artist Michelangelo's sculpture David, ________ a biblical character，was firstly shown in the 1500s. The sculpture has ________ years of exposure to the rain, having rocks thrown at it by protesters（抗议者）, and even someone ________ it with a hammer in the 1990s. In spite of all these, David is still standing strong and ________ today-a true symbol of the Renaissance.

【推荐3】Confucius was born on September 28, 551 BC in the Kingdom of Lu, in today’s Shandong Province. Chinese people regard Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest _______ who had about 3,000 students.

Confucius himself was a(n) _______ learner who always reflected (反思) on his own _______. One day his student was cooking porridge for the teacher when something _______ dropped into the pot. He _______ got it out with the spoon and wanted to _______ the porridge away. But it occurred to him that it’s not _______ to gain the food, so he ate it. Just then, Confucius happened to come into the _______. He thought his student was _______ food to eat. So Confucius was ________ and decided to punish his student. But when the student ________ what had happened before, Confucius came to know that seeing is not believing.

For more than 2,000 years, Confucius’ ________ have been around in people’s everyday lives. But some people are concerned that young Chinese today are ________ their own history and culture. As a matter of fact, Confucius’ ideas are still ________ today’s Chinese youth. As a teacher, he said that all should go to school if they could and wanted to ________. His most important ideas are ________ and good manners. He had many ________ quotes, such as: young people should take care of the ________; people should think more of others instead of ________.

Nowadays, more than 100 Internet ________ are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas.