【推荐1】Mrs. Humboldt was my brother's science teacher. It was said that her look once _______ all the sixth-graders. The teacher never smiled and seemed hard to get close to, which was far from their _______ . What they had been wishing for was an easy-going teacher.

Mrs. Humboldt _______ rules. She believed rules could push better habits and self-control. It was really a（n） _______ for students like my brother who didn't follow rules. He always arrived late, and made various excuses to _______ homework. So he wasn't a stranger _______ the teacher's office. He seemed to be afraid of her.

However, in the days and months followed, my brother looked like a _______ person. He began to behave _______ . He got up early _______ it was an extremely cold morning. He finished his homework as soon as he came home. The only thing that didn't change was that he still ________ Mrs. Humboldt for her being ________ with him. He once said to me that Mrs. Humboldt paid much attention to his ________ at school every day. He had to follow Mrs. Humboldt's rules.

Later, he successfully entered a key high school. One day, my brother told us something that really ________ us. He said that Mrs. Humboldt was actually a great teacher and that he finally understood her good ________ . She really prepared him for high school. He added that Mrs. Humboldt was the teacher he wanted to say ________ to most.

【推荐3】I loved my first-grade teacher, Mrs. Gross. She had such a sweet smile and was ______to us. I wasn’t sure what her ______was at the time but she already looked very motherly. She never ______her students. To me it felt like having a second mother as my teacher. I always _______the times I spent in her classroom.

One such memory is still with me to this day. We were doing math problems while Mrs. Gross walked through the classroom ______our work. I finished first and lifted my ______ up just as Mrs. Gross walked up behind me. She looked at my work and______, saying, “Well done, Joe. You’re a______ boy.” It felt good to be______ . From that moment on I always tried my best. I always wanted to be what she considered me to be. She awakened a______ in me to be the best person I could be. With her gentle love and ______ I started down a wonderful path that I am still on today.

David Whyte wrote, “People are hungry, and one good word is______ for a thousand.” I think the good words Mrs. Gross gave me helped me______ my own good words with others. I think the______ Mrs. Gross showed me helped me give love to others. Kind words, loving acts and a helping hand are______ in the eyes of someone in need. Make your life a gift of love.

【推荐1】Everyone has his most memorable teacher. When I think back to my most memorable teacher, Mary Justice's face_______comes into my mind. She was my journalism teacher in high school.

What I_______most about Mrs. Justice is that she_______me and everyone else in the class with so much_______that she always allowed us to make our own choices. Besides, she was such a(n)_______teacher that she was elected our school's Teacher of the Year for many times and she also helped raise our_______of being a person of action rather than just making plans. Her attitude gradually_______me. I didn't know it then, but she was really a_______for my future.

I wasn't quite a_______person in class. In my second senior year, Mrs, Justice__________me to compete for the editor-in-chief of the yearbook. When she__________the final appointment in the class, I was not only quite nervous, but I also felt delighted that Mrs Justice had chosen me for that position which helped strengthen my__________.

Mary Justice has an important effect on my life and my career choice. I will never__________her reaction when I told her I had__________Nicholls State University and decided to become a teacher after graduation. Her face lit up, and I knew at that moment she was so__________of me. Little did Mrs Justice know that it was because of her that I had chosen the same career as hers.

Twenty years later, my son, Derek, started middle school. That summer. The headmaster of our local middle school had to retire__________his illness, and he would be__________by a new headmaster. To my great__________, the new headmaster was Mary Justice! She had a strong influence on my son's life as well.

Now as a teacher, I teach my students the same life skills as Mrs. Justice taught me—being__________thinkers, and learning from mistakes.__________, these will help them become successful adults in the future.

【推荐3】A mother was criticizing (批评) her daughter because the girl was not good enough to compete at a championship level in the gymnastics camp.

The scene reminded me of my ______ of the day when one of my own gymnastic performances put me to tears.

My mother became seriously injured when she was young, and she has______ a wheelchair ever since. But she never let that ______ her. She raised five children and had a career.

One day I joined a gymnastics program at a nearby park. Before long, I was totally ______in it. By 1972, I was on the National Gymnastics Team for the Olympic Games. I couldn’t think of anything else but ______ a gold medal.

Before the competition, all in my mind was ______ not to disgrace (使……丢脸) my country and myself. But, though I tried my best, I didn’t win a gold medal. I was so ______. When the winners were receiving ______, I joined my parents in the stands, and we all cried. “I’m sorry. I did my best.” I said.

Mother said nothing but ten words I never ______, “Doing your best is more important than being the best. ” Suddenly I understood her______than ever before. She had never let her handicap(残疾) ______ her from doing her best.

Now I approached the crying girl and put a(n) ______ around her. “Honey, ” I said. “I know you have done your best, and doing your best is more important than being the best. I’m ______ you. ”

She ______ me with tears in her eyes. Maybe somewhere, someday, she’ll ______ those words along.

【推荐2】In 2011, retired worker Joao, found a South American penguin________ on the rocks and close to death on his local beach in Brazil. Joao cleaned the oil________ the penguin’s feathers,________him a daily diet of fish to get his strength up and named him Dindim.

A week later, Joao tried to ________the penguin back into the sea, but he just wouldn’t leave. Joao took him out in his boat, went to a nearby island and released him. Later that day, the penguin was back in Joao’s backyard. In the end, Dindim stayed with Joao for 11 months and then, “just after he changed his coat for new feathers he________,”Joao explains.

In fact, Dindim returns to Joao’s little beach in the summer every year-it’s ________that the penguin prefers to visit the elderly man rather than ________ to the feeding areas of his species.

Joao________how the penguin continued to follow him home. “Everyone said he wouldn’t return, but he________back to visit me for the past four years,” he says, “He arrives in June and ________ to go home in February and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even________to see me.” Now new pictures have________of Dindim visiting Joao in his village earlier this month.

When Dindim is staying with Joao, the two friends sometimes like to take a walk together down the beach-or sometimes Joao walks and Dindims swims alongside him. “I love the penguin like it’s my own________and I believe the penguin loves me, ”Joao says. “No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lies on my lap, lets me give him shower and allows me to feed him sardines and to________him up.”

Who said there wasn’t still some ________news left in the world?

【推荐3】It had been a long business trip. We had already had multiple flight delays, so I was pleased when we ________ boarded the plane on schedule. The flight attendants shut the door, ________ the passengers, and soon after, I heard the sound of the engines firing, which seemed quite ________ to me.

It is common in Atlanta that we had to wait a bit on the ________ for our turn. And then finally we started moving slowly. ________, when we did so for about 10 minutes, suddenly the plane stopped. An announcement came that we’d have a delay, and we’d be in a holding pattern (等待模式) for a little while.

That “little while” ________ 90 minutes at last. It was almost 40 degrees and we were ________ in the small plane with almost no air conditioning. It seemed like a(n) ________! So when the plane took off in the end, all the passengers couldn’t help cheering.

Waiting is not something that comes easily to me. I’m more like the sports car with the engine ________waiting at the crossing. But now, I’ve ________ something: When I have to stay in a “holding pattern”, it will be wise to accept that with ________ and a good attitude. Sometimes those “holding patterns” are for my ________. They make me wait until things are ________. Sometimes those “holding patterns” seem very long and ________   just like the one on the hot airplane but I should trust everything will be OK. I should know what I can do is just have ________ with the difficult time.