【推荐1】When Wu Rongjin was a child, she often pretended to be a teacher. She used pieces of chalk and a tiny ________ made by her father to teach her “student”—her doll. Wu was always the ________ student in her class to be ________ after school. Because her ________ were often stuck at work. A teacher would stay with Wu until her parents ________.

At that time, Wu ________ one day she would be a teacher, and have a positive influence on her students. In 1994, she chose to become a teacher at a primary school, after she ________ from Shanghai Teachers Training College.

Inspired by the former head of the school, Wu and her colleagues began ________ their students with sentimental (感情上的) education, because they firmly ________ that all-round development of personal character and sentiment is necessary for young students.

A weekly course, offered, by Wu, became ________ with students. The class was ________ and useful in guiding them to think ________ and improve their personal skills as well as ________ in interpersonal communications. Wu has conducted that course for around two decades.

In fact, Wu, has not limited sentimental education to the ________. For instance, she always stands at the school’s entrance to ________ the students. Wu hopes the students will learn to show ________ for the feelings of other people.

Moreover, Wu has ________ her students to speak with their teachers about their problems and difficulties they ________ in their daily lives.

Her greatest ________ is to guarantee every child’s happy growth, ________ and mental health.

【推荐1】Huagu (“flowery drum”) Opera is a local art form of Yueyang in Central China’s Hunan province. It______the cultural life of the local residents in a long history. It ______ more than 200 years ago. It is mainly ______ in a dozen counties and cities in not just Hunan, but also in the neighbor Hubei province and the eastern Jiangxi province.

In the past, they could ______ it mostly during important festivals such as Lunar New Year. But now they can watch it often. The One Yuan Theater, ______ Rongjiawan town of Yueyang, has staged 30 to 50 Huagu Opera shows each year since 2012. And the audience numbers for each show sometimes ______ 1,000. Some people ______ stools or are even willing to stand through a show of two or three hours. Though the theater has a ______ capacity of 800, there are not enough seats. To enjoy a show, each audience has to pay only 1 yuan ($0.15) as ______ fee to the theater, as the programs are ______ government funding. The project provides ______ and nearly-free shows to local residents. It has been ______. It has brought the once-dead cultural heritage back to life.

In its long development process, the opera has widely ______ features of Yueyang folk tunes and _____ factors of other opera types to form its own style. ______, Huagu Opera had no full-time performing teams. It was only performed by ______ artists, most of whom were local farmers, during free farming seasons on ______ stages. In recent years, ______ have been taken by the local government to ______ the art form. The One Yuan Theater, which aims to absorb more audience, has been a successful _______

【推荐3】It is natural to find aspects of other cultures not only interesting but also attractive. Often the first image we see from another culture________ the longest in our minds. If you ask me what “Chinese culture” is, I would perhaps mention The Art of War or the Tao Te Ching, old classics I ________ by a Sinophile friend when I was a teenager. We considered them insightful and cool.

There is no better way, however, to help anyone really understand contemporary China than to learn its________. Therefore, I was ________ when the British government adopted a target that 5,000 students should be studying Mandarin(普通话) eight hours a week by 2020. Yet this is just part of a pan-Western ________! In the United States, the president has ________a similar movement to prepare young students to deal with China in future jobs.

The ________ behind such decisions include China’s economic development and growing importance in the world. As George Osborne, a member of the British Parliament put it, learning Mandarin will help young people succeed in an increasingly ________ economy. Mandarin is more “ ________ ”to their later careers than other languages.

I first met many Chinese and visited China during my university years. Since then, I’ve been trying to learn Mandarin. ________, studying the language by myself with books and CDs turns out to be quite tough. Devotion and regularly talking with native speakers really ________.

Meanwhile. I have found that many fresh graduates from China are not knowledgeable enough about Chinese and are not able to ________ original ideas to the West. This may explain why the most famous Chinese books in the West are still classics like those I mentioned. ________, the Western trend for learning Mandarin should not only fill you with pride but come as a“ ________” too. While you are busy learning English, you should perhaps spend an equal amount of time stepping up your Chinese knowledge as well. As part of the rising generation, you have the chance---and the responsibility--to ________ that cultural influence will go in both directions.