【推荐1】A classroom of kindergartners listened attentively as their teacher, Robin Hughes, read them a book about snow. But as Hughes turned pages and _______ them photos of children making snow angels, she noticed some students looked _______. Hughes was shocked to know that only a couple of kids had seen snow. So she _______ her sister Amber Estes for help. “Could you make a snowman for me?” Hughes texted Estes. That text led Estes to build “Lucky”, a tiny _______.

Days later, Estes _______ her the snowman—completed with blueberries as eyes, a carrot as a nose and two branches as arms-on a nearly 800-mile journey in a _______ filled with ice bags. Hughes opened the box eagerly. To her surprise, the snowman had arrived almost _______.

The kids _______ saw the snowman in the classroom. “I was so excited just to see their joy,” said Hughes. Ever since, at least twice a day, Hughes brought “Lucky” out from the cafeteria _______ and put it on a silver plate so students could ________ the snowman and asked questions. Cheers and wows filled the classroom every time the snowman was ________. Whenever the snowman started to ________, she took it back to the fridge.

“In a time when things are not ________ for kids in the classroom, this little snowman has created ________,” Hughes said. She planned to melt the snowman before Earth Day and use the ________ while planting a flower at the school.

【推荐2】A student stuck a note on one of his classmates’ back while they were having a break one day. The note said “_________”. He asked the rest of his classmates not to tell the boy. The other students started laughing at the boy, but none of them would say_________.

Soon, it was time for their afternoon_________class. Their teacher wrote a difficult problem on the blackboard._________was able to solve it except the boy with the note on his back.

Ignoring (忽略) the laughter, the boy walked_________the blackboard and solved the math problem. The teacher praised him_________she asked the class to clap (鼓掌) for him. Then she_________the note on his back. She told him, “It seems that you didn’t know about the note your classmate put on your back, but you don’t seem to_________anyway.”

Then the teacher looked at the rest of the class_________. She said, “Before I punish (惩罚) you all__________things. First, all of you will be labeled (贴标签) at one point or another by people who don’t want you to succeed. Don’t pay any__________to these labels. All you have to do is to take every__________you have to learn, grow and improve.”

“Besides, it seems that none of you are real friends with this boy, since none of you were__________enough to tell him about the note. If that’s true, then you’d better hope that you have some good__________yourself. Or you night be the__________one with a note stuck on your back someday with no one telling you.” Bearing what the teacher said, all the students were lost in deep thought.

【推荐1】I can still remember the first lesson I had with my English teacher, Mrs. Smith. The ________ remains vivid (鲜活的) to this day.

With a friendly, enthusiastic face and a pile of English ________ in her hands, Mrs. Smith asked us if we all believed that we could be top English learners and speak English ________ like native speakers. Many of us didn’t believe it. Mrs. Smith looked at us with wide eyes and told us that she believed that anyone could be a top student. Then, she told the whole class that she would help us become top students if we had ________ and good methods.

After a while, she began to teach us her set of plans. First of all, she told us that we should be ________ pronunciation and intonation (语调). As we all know, reading English passages aloud is very important, but if you read word by word, it would sound very ________.

Mrs. Smith told us that we should ________ the words clearly and correctly. She told us not to ________ or swallow any vowel (元音). If there were foreigners around, we could pay attention to their ________ when they spoke. Their mouths would be opened wide to make the sound ________. Only when you read the sound correctly will it sound good. Mrs. Smith also told us to read a passage with a cadence (节奏) combining the ________ and falling tones.

Later, the teacher explained how to “accentuate (重读)” certain ________ words, such as nouns, verbs and adjectives. To make it clear, she offered some examples with two different pronunciations of a sentence to ________ strong emotions. In “Nice to meet you”, for example, we should ________ “meet” to show our happiness.

Toward the end of that class, Mrs. Smith also offered us some good ________ to learn English. We should actively ________ group activities because it can help develop our communicative abilities. More importantly, we should ________ listen to others, ________ others’ strengths, ________ weaknesses and imitate authentic English expressions and thinking patterns. With the help of such a kind and patient English teacher, I have faith that I will be a ________ learner. She is not only our teacher but also our good friend.

【推荐2】Meet Charlie, he is a 6 year old black Labrador. His job in the army is to find unexploded bombs with his handler Henry. It is 1916 right now and Charlie and Henry are in the trenches in France. It is wet, cold, muddy and there are a lot of _________. Charlie spends part of his day chasing these annoying rats away from the soldiers, _________are all tired and need their precious rest.

Charlie loves his handler Henry very much and would do _________for him. They first met back in England in 1914, when Charlie first started his training. Charlie remembers how Henry smelt of _________, having just had his breakfast, and Charlie spent the first 10 minutes of meeting him licking the bacon grease off of his hands. They have not been apart since that first day and are now _________. They also still share a love of bacon, not that they get it very often.

Charlie and Henry spend their days with the other soldiers, trying to sleep in dug out shelters in the walls of the trench. They are _________and frightened and they don't know what could happen from one moment to the next. It's hard to _________in these conditions and there are always lots of loud noises from the bombs blasting near the _________but they have to grab it when they can as they spend their _________hunting for dangerous unexploded bombs and looking for wounded men.

Once it's dark, Charlie and Henry crawl out of their trench into no man’s land, staying __________so they don't disturb the tin cans hanging on the barbed wire, __________would alert the enemy soldiers in the German trench. Charlie is frightened but tries hard to be brave, he knows that he is __________people's lives. The two of them crawl from crater to crater, listening for sounds from the wounded, Charlie sniffing __________bombs.

Suddenly Charlie stopped and pricked up his __________, he heard something. Charlie bolts forward following the sound, searching this way and that way, trying to find where it came from. He lets out a low whine, Henry realized Charlie has __________him to a wounded British soldier. He has been shot in the leg and cannot __________. Henry throws him over his shoulder and they race back towards their lines. As they are getting closer to their trench suddenly the Germans start shooting __________them. One of the Germans throws a stick grenade that lands close to Henry, Charlie sees that his best friend is in so much danger! He picks up the stick grenade in his __________and sprints away, dropping it into a deep crater full of mud and water where it explodes, saving Henry and the wounded soldier.

They eventually make it __________to the British trench, where Henry tells all the soldiers of their adventure and they all cheer __________Charlie the Hero dog.