【推荐1】It has been argued by some that gifted children should be grouped in special classes. The ________ is based on the belief that in regular classes these children are held back in their intellectual (智力的)growth by   ________ situations that are designed for the   ________ children.There can be little doubt that ________ classes can help the gifted children to graduate earlier and take their place in life sooner. However, to take these   ________ out of the regular classes may create serious problems.

I observed a number of ________ children who were taken out of a special class and placed in a   ________ class. In the special class, they showed little ability to use their own judgment, relying   ________ on their teachers’ directions. In the regular class, having no worry about keeping up, they began to reflect   ________ on many problems, some of which were not on the school program.

Many are concerned that gifted children become   ________ and lose interest in learning. However, this   ________ is more often from parents and teachers than from students, and some of these   ________ simply conclude that special classes should be set up for those who are   ________. Some top students do feel bored in class, but why they   ________ so goes far beyond the work they have in school. Studies have shown that to be bored is to be anxious. The gifted child who is bored is an   ________ child.

【推荐2】People live in the present. They plan for the future. History, ______, is the study of the past. Given all the ______ and pressures that come from living in the present and ______ what is yet to come, why bother with what has been? Given all the available branches of knowledge, why insist - as most ______ systems do - on history? And why encourage many students to study even more history than they are _____ to?

Any subject of study needs to be______: supporters must explain why it is worth ______. Like most widely accepted _____, history attracts people who simply ______ the information and modes of thought involved. But for people who are less interested in the subject and more ______ about why they should bother with it, a clearer explanation of its purpose is required.

____ do not perform heart transplants, improve highway design, or arrest criminals. In a society that quite correctly expects education to serve ______ purposes, history’s functions can seem more ______ to determine than those of engineering or medicine. History is in fact very useful, actually _____, but the products of historical study are often less ______ and immediate than those of other subjects.

History helps us understand people, societies and how they ______. For example, how can we ______ past wars (and future threats) without using historical materials? Unfortunately, major aspects of a society’s operation cannot be set up as precise experiments. ______, history must serve, however imperfectly, as our ______, helping us understand who we are and why we do what we do. This, fundamentally, is why we cannot ______ history.

【推荐3】The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. --Thomas Macaulay

Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neill gave a math ________ to our class. When the papers were marked, she discovered that twelve boys had made the same mistakes throughout the test.

“There is really nothing new about ________ in the exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O’Neill didn’t even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to

________after class. I was one of the twelve.

Mrs O’Neill asked ________questions, and she didn’t ________ us either." She wrote on the blackboard the ________words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to ________ these words into our exercise books one hundred times.

I don’t ________about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single ________of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay's words, they ________ seem to me the best yardstick(准绳), because they give me a ________to measure myself rather than others.

________of us are asked to make great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called upon daily to make a great many personal decisions. ________the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket or turned over to the policeman? Should the extra change received at the store be forgotten or ________? Nobody will know except ________. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.

【推荐1】I’m standing in a class of wild 14-year-old girls as they throw paper and howl with laughter.They won’t listen to me. I never wanted to _______. I wanted to be a writer. But when I arrived in London, they were _______ of teachers.

My efforts at teaching were _______. When the bell finally rang, I _______ to the staff room, red with anger. The other teachers weren’t _______. “That’s 4B, the worst class in school.”

But I couldn’t _______. I quit formal lessons. Instead, I brought topics for class discussion.One of the liveliest talks was about the arguments they had with their _______. They paid attention and were _______to share about their family lives. Then I had them write about themselves.As time went on, their essays became a _______ between us. I________their humor, toughness and eagerness, and I think they appreciated my interest in their lives.

The musical My Fair Lady was playing in the West End and I asked if they’d like to see the musical. They thought I was joking and did not take it ________ since no teacher had ever suggested taking them out. A few weeks later, 4B and I were ________ in theater. They loved the musical and the characters.

Near the end of the term,two most rebellious(叛逆的)girls with flowers were knocking on my door. I was ________ to know I had touched their hearts and made a difference to their lives, but they had also touched mine. I enjoyed teaching and getting along with ________.

When I returned to Australia several years later, I still ________ to be a writer. Teaching wasn’t the end of my writing career; it was the beginning.

【推荐3】My phone rang and it was a number I didn't recognize. When I __ it, I heard my son's __ voice on the other end saying, Mama, I got on the wrong __ .“This was his first year in the middle school. I knew my little boy was very __ . After all, it was only his second time to __ home. Since he normally had football classes, I would met him.

The phone wasn't hung up, I could hear my __ was speaking with the bus driver. I could feel his frustration (挫败）. The tone of his __ when he told the bus driver “ I'm so sorry” was __ . Then on the other end of the line, I __ a calming response. The woman driver said, “Oh, honey, you don't have to ___. It's my job to get you home __ . And this is what I'm going to do.” I'm grateful, __ she was comforting (安慰）my son. I couldn't help but think of the many other responses he could have __ . She told me not to worry. We appointed (约定）a place and then she went out of her way to comfort him.

When I arrived at the location we __ on, the woman driver came over with my son and explained how she noticed he felt terrible and __ . My son had even asked her if he messed everything up. She tried her best to make him __ .

Every day, I pray that there are people in our __ and in the right places to watch over my __ when I'm not there. And today it did happen. This __ truly showed the love in her behaviors and care for my son. I won't let her behaviors go unnoticed, so this story will be __ with everyone on the Internet.

【推荐1】Once I went with my brother to watch how the villagers caught fish in the local pond. Usually the locals catch fish in the _______ morning. It was exciting so we _______ at 4 o'clock. Not only did it sound like a(n) _______ to me, but it also turned out to teach me a _______lesson.

The fishermen had a big fishing net, one side of which was _______ along with the boundary of the pond and the other end was taken to the _______ boundary of the pond underwater. After a certain time they slowly started _______ the free end towards the fixed end. Most fish got _______ inside the net and the fish had already started feeling _______ wrong. Because of the lack of ________, they started panicking. Some started ________ to get out of the net. Though they knew getting out of the water was a big risk, they still ________ their best to jump with all their strength; ________ few fish got out of the net. I asked a fisherman about the fish that “escaped”. They told me it usually ________ that next time they would again get ________ after another 6 months. Hearing this, I realized one of the greatest life lessons. The fish that took the risk actually ________ their life time by 6 months! I ________ what would happen if they lived in big lakes. Maybe, they could live longer.

In life there are certain situations where we might feel we are ________ our living space. We take the biggest risk of our lives and jump out of the space, ________ we fall into another small one where we may end up failing. So we need to be wise enough to choose to live in much ________ spaces where we have more conditions to help survive or succeed.

【推荐2】I was having my dinner at McDonald’s one evening when an old couple slowly walked in. They _______ their meal, took a table near the window and started _______ food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fires(炸薯条) and one drink. The man _______ the food into two halves and carefully placed _______ before his wife.

He took a sip(一小口) of the drink. His wife also took one and then _______ the cup down between them. “That _______ old couple! All they can _______ is one meal for the two of them,” thought I. _______ the man began to eat his French fires, I _______ to my feet, went over and said that I was _______ to buy another meal for them. But he _______ refused me and said that they made it a ______ to share everything.

______, the lady didn’t take a bite. She sat there ______ her husband eat, and taking turns sipping the drink. Again I ______ to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was ______ his face with a napkin. I ______ no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time. _______ being politely refused, I asked the lady ______,“Madam,why aren’t you eating? You said that you share everything. _______ is it that you are waiting for?” “The teeth,” she answered.