【推荐1】I was in the sixth grade and has just moved to California from Alaska when I met Ms.Linda Jones. Most of my teachers seemed to _________me; I was one more student among hundreds. Ms.Jones, however, took a _________ interest. “You can write, ” she said, explaining that she wanted to move me into the honors English class. So did I.

A decade later, when my first novel was _________， I went back to Ms.Jones’s classroom, handing her a copy of my book. “And I _________ this for you.” Ms.Jones began to cry _________. She’d been considering early retirement, she said, _________she felt she wasn’t having enough of an _________on her students. I didn’t know how to make Ms.Jones understand what she’d done for me: Thanks to her, I fell in love with Shakespeare. I learned how to compose an essay. It was her _________in me that gave me the confidence to become a writer. I _________her.

Fifteen years later, when I heard that she was __________ready to retire, I attended her going­away party. All Ms.Jones needed to do was say a few words thanking her colleagues for coming. __________， she stood up and made an exciting speech that began like this: “For those of you complaining that __________have changed, and that it’s harder to teach these days. You’re getting old and lazy. These kids haven’t changed. You have! Do not __________these kids! ”

When she finished her talk, everyone __________hands! I went up to Ms.Jones and thanked her for changing my life all those years ago. I __________that night that I was still, and would forever be, her student.

【推荐2】Peter,a 5-year-old boy,showed such great interest in sea shells that he often picked them up with his 3-year-old sister, Shirley. For Peter, sea shells lay shinning on the _________beach, waiting for him, just like stars twinkling in the sky.

One day,the two were hanging about in a _________ when Peter found his younger sister was not _________ . He looked back and found Shirley _________ in front of a toy shop,with her eyes fastened on a beautiful doll.

Holding his younger sister's tiny hand, Peter entered the shop. He tiptoed(踮起脚尖）to _________ the doll and handed it to Shirley. The sister was very happy to hold tightly the doll.

Peter went to the _________ and asked the shopkeeper, “How much does this doll cost,Sir?”

The shopkeeper looked at the boy with interest, asking,“Well, what can you _________?”

Peter took out the money that was _________ for their breakfast, gave it to the shopkeeper and asked, “Sir, is it enough?”

Shaking his head slightly,he replied, “My boy, I am afraid it seems not enough. ”

The kids were so disappointed. Watching his sister's smile _________ ，Peter frowned.

Without hesitation, he __________the shells out of his pocket on the counter, and asked the shopkeeper nervously , “Is it enough now?” Without even counting them, the shopkeeper replied, “These are __________the cost. ” Saying so, he kept only two and returned the __________ shells and the money.

Peter left the shop with Shirley very happily,leaving an assistant in that shop at a loss .

He asked the shopkeeper, “Sir! You only charged them for 2 shells? !” The shopkeeper said with a smile, “For us these are shells, but for the boy they are __________. His love for his sister is the most precious. When he grows up, he will remember he __________ a doll for his sister with the shells. He will cherish love and warmth in life-cherish every little __________ sea shell in his heart. ”

【推荐3】Carol-Anne O’Callaghan, a retired teacher, has spent more than half of her lifetime teaching. This time, she wanted to do something much more ________

One day in 2021, O’Callaghan was walking her dogs when she ________       yellow dots on all the oak trees along Leather Lane. The dots, she learned, indicated the trees’ ________drew near. The marked trees would make way for a new rail line, which was really a piece of ________news for her. Planted in the 19th century, they were ________parts of her childhood. “My family used to picnic under them,” she recalled,   “and they meant much.”

Unfortunately, they were to be cut down as part of the HS2 high-speed railway projects. O’Callaghan ________ the HS2 helpline, only to be told the ________couldn’t be changed.

As a teacher, O’Callaghan often told students, “If something is wrong, you can’t ________and let it happen.” So she started a(n) ________to save the trees. O’Callaghan went from door to door in the neighborhood, ________local people to fight for the trees.

The locals ________O’Callaghan. “It’s amazing to see someone who shows great ________for giving a voice to those trees,” said her neighbor Victoria. ________, her efforts paid off. HS2 ________an alternative overhead design. And O’Callaghan was nominated (提名) for “Guardian Angel” in recognition of her attempts to ________nature in the county.