【推荐1】It was Friday, and I slid into my seat I looked up and felt the _________. I heard our fifth-grade teacher say we were about to take our weekly math test. She told us not to _________ it. If we practiced our problems at home, we should be fine.

I took some deep _________ and comforted myself, “It’s only 10 questions. How hard can it be?” But when a blank test arrived on my desk, I was full of _________. Everything seemed like a blur (模糊) as I rushed to _________ on time. However, as I handed my paper to the teacher, I felt _________ good—maybe it was because the test was over. Before the end of the day, though, she handed back the tests. I _________. Another C.

Growing up, I felt math was a _________. Only thanks to a devoted teacher in a summer course did I gain the basic _________ I needed to move forward. From then on, math felt more or less tolerable.

So you might be __________ that I’m now an elementary school math specialist. Today, I often think about why many students find math __________, and I think it has something to do with the fact that we don, t develop in them the critical (批判性的) thinking skills needed for math reasoning. That’s why my __________ is to teach math as a way of thinking.

I remind those students, who think they’re born bad at math, that math is a skill you never __________ learning. There’ll always be something you haven’t yet mastered, and that’s OK. It, s also OK to __________ along the way. Actually, it’s not the __________ of the world if a problem needs correcting; it’s an opportunity to learn and grow. So keep learning.

【推荐2】Zhi Yueying is a village teacher who has been working for almost four decades. When Zhi Yueying, then 19, went to the _______ Niyang village in Yichun city, Jiangxi province, to work as a village teacher in 1980, villagers _______ if she was going to stay long. After all, a number of voluntary _______ had arrived before, but all had _______ soon after. Zhi, though, was there for more than thirty years, before going to a more remote village school in the mountains.

Over the past four decades, Zhi has devoted herself to rural_______ . She is a recipient of China Central Television’s Touching China awards that recognize the most _______ role models in 2016. She was also _______ as a model poverty fighter by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council earlier this year.

Born in Nanchang city, Jiangxi, in 1961, Zhi wanted to become a teacher since childhood. She _______ to work as a teacher at the primary school in Niyang village after graduation, despite her mother's strong_______Located amid the mountains, the village was very poor and far from any town. Villagers had to ________ in the mountains since there was no road. Moreover, local people needed to go downhill to ________ daily necessities. “I had never walked on a mountain road before, so in the beginning, I walked much more ________ than others, sometimes I was left behind too much and was scared to tears, ” says Zhi.

But she gradually ________ to her life there. She has a profound understanding of the importance of education in the mountains. Over the years, Zhi taught the students and ________ them, since many of them were “left-behind” children whose ________ migrated to other places to work. More than 1, 000 students of hers have left the mountain area, and created a better life for themselves.

【推荐3】My husband had to stay in hospital for a month. I had to ask my school for a _______ . I entered my classroom, ready to tell the kids there would be a supply teacher. Then I found a green envelope.

“What’s this?” I asked _______ , picking up the envelope, so _______ that it barely closed. As I _______ it, coins and dollar bills fell out—fives, tens, twenties. Obviously, someone had _______ them of my husband’s diagnosis (诊断). But I had never expected they would _______ in such a way. How had these kids _______ that much money? My throat tightened with _______ .

“I can’t take this.” I attempted to _______ it.

“We had intended to get you ________ ,” one student, Jesse, said. “But we decided to give you the money so that you can buy what you need. We guess that might be more ________ .” They looked at me silently but with eagerness.

I held up the cash, and quickly ________ the amount: that would buy a lot of flowers.

As the adult in the room, I felt ________ for accepting cash from teenagers, but their eager faces gave me no ________ . More important than the envelope in my hand was the ________ in their hearts and the lesson they had taught themselves: how wonderful it feels to meet someone’s need and to make a difference.

【推荐1】Sofia Moncayo was born in Colombia. She remembers her own experiences with a lack of food while growing up. So she is always using her free time to help_________people in her community.

However, Moncayo has faced her own_________during the corona virus pandemic（流行）. She lost her job at a building company and remains_________. But she has continued to_________money in the community and lead the effort to provide more than 1,000 boxes of food to families two times per week. Most of the food is_________by a neighborhood restaurant and other businesses and organizations. Last March, Moncayo founded a food assistance program. The program currently_________hundreds of people. Moncayo_________a group of volunteers who give out food to those in need.

Neighborhood resident Carol Sullivan lost her job as a stage manager when New York_________closed because of the pandemic. At first, she was not_________about receiving food, but she said Moncayo and the other__________made her feel welcome.

“It has been a__________to the community that I didn’t have before. And it also saves a lot of__________over having to pay for food or having to pay the bills,” Sullivan said. “If you have a dollar, you have to spend it__________to cover all your needs. Having them has made the__________less stressful.”

“If we had not been doing these, I think this would have been a__________time for them,” Moncayo said.

【推荐2】Looking back, the memory of doctors, nurses and the conclusion of appendicitis (阑尾炎) was still clear. ______, nothing hurt more than three days with appendicitis. After a series of emergencies, I could merely lie ______ and beg my body to stop hurting.

All the ______ acquired from years of swimming was eaten away. Previously, I could swim miles daily. Now it was a(n) ______ to sit up and I couldn’t swim for almost three months.

When I finally returned to the pool, I struggled with my ______ ability. Race after race, I ______ my goals. Every time I ______ to enter the national competitions, I failed by a tiny amount.

Finally, I came to the last event that could ______ me for nationals. This was my last ______ : now or never. After so many failures, I couldn’t help being furious about recent events.

The race started, and I dived in, throwing the pain, ______ and anger I had experienced recently into the pool. My mind focused, self-limitation was ______ and I devoted all my attention and strength to my moves.

When I saw my time, a wave of ______ swept over me. I eventually ______ self-doubt and won what almost ______ from me. Nationals were waiting for me, and by no means would I let anything ______ my advancement.

【推荐3】Dogs cannot speak and write poetry like humans, but their love is as pure as snow and as innocent as an angel. In fact, there are not enough words in the universe to _______ a dog’s loyalty and love for its owner. This is something 81-year-old Harry Smith _______ to himself when his dog saved his life upon realizing he was in danger.

81-year-old Harry Smith, a resident of Port St. Lucie, Florida, was out on his electric wheelchair to enjoy the sunshine with his dog Sarah. Suddenly, the wheelchair _______ off-track and rolled down a lake’s embankment (湖堤), where it got _______. When Harry tried to free it from the mud, the wheelchair _______ and threw him over into the lake. It was a very _______ moment for Harry, who cannot swim. He was neck-deep in water, and he started shouting in panic.

Sarah quickly _______ what was happening and began barking loudly from the lake. Because of the non-stop barks and water splashing (哗啦) by the dog, two people across the street were _______.

Edward Suhling and his friend Aby Jacob Chacko _______ to see what was wrong. ________, a patrol (巡逻) car was passing, and they ________ Police Officer Adam Doty for help. Together, they managed to pull Harry out of the water.

Harry, who was close to ________, looked deathly pale. But upon medical check-up on the   ________ , he was found well enough to go home. His rescuers helped him get back to his house, with the dog happily following.

Although they were praised for their good deed, Edward and Jacob ________ Sarah for saving her owner’s life. Edward told TCPalm that it was Sarah’s loud barking which he heard and none of Harry’s ________ for help.