【推荐1】I have just finished my 23rd year of teaching at universities. And there have been several changes in the way students approach their classes. The most_________ is that when I started teaching, students took notes in notebooks, but now almost every desk has a laptop on it when I give a lecture.

There seem to be a lot of obvious_________ of taking notes on a computer. For one, it is easy to save the notes in a place where you can_________ them later. For another, you will be able to read your notes later especially if your handwriting is_________.

Before we go out and encourage every student to bring a laptop to class, though, it is worth checking out a study by Pam Mueller and Danny Oppenheimer. They compared college students’ _________ in tests following exposure to material. The students were assigned either to take notes by hand or using a laptop.

In the first study, students took notes while watching a lecture. Then, they engaged in other activities for about 30 minutes. Finally, they were given a quiz about the lecture. The quiz contained_________ questions as well as conceptual questions that required some understanding of the subject matter. Students did about equally well on the factual questions_________ how they took notes. However, the students did much_________ on the conceptual questions when they took notes by hand than when they took them using the laptop.

The experimenters_________ the content of people’s notes to the lecture and found that when people typed their notes on a laptop, they were much more likely to__________ what people said directly rather than writing their impressions of it. That is, people writing out their notes had to think more__________ about the content of what they heard than those people who were just typing.

Then, in the second study, the experimenters told people using the laptops to take good notes rather than just taking down what they heard. Even when people were given these__________, they still had a greater tendency to type what they heard than people who were taking notes by hand. As before, the people who used the laptops did more poorly in a test of__________ knowledge than those who took notes by hand.

So there is real value in having to think about the material in the__________ of taking notes. It is because handwriting is slow and__________ that people have to think more clearly about what they want to write down rather than copying down what is being said.

In the United States more than 80 colleges now accept just only women. Most of them were founded in the 19th century. They were set up to ______ women the education they could not get anywhere else. At that time _______ of the universities and colleges ________only men. In the past 20 years many young women have_________ to study at colleges that accept both men and women. As a _______, some women’s colleges decided to accept men students, too. Others still refused to change. Now the women’s colleges are ________ again.

The president of Trinity College in Washington D. C said by the end of the 1980s women had come to ______ that studying at the same colleges with men and women did not mean       ______had the same chance to _______ . The president of Smith College in Massachusette said “A women’s college ________ women to choose classes and activities   ______ . For example, if a woman student wants to learn maths, she will be given the chance. So the percentage of students who like to study maths in a women’s college is _______ than that in a college with men and women. ”

Experts say men students in the United States ________ have enough courage to speak in class.       _____ , women students can’t. In a women’s college, women feel free to say   _______ they want to. According to a report, women colleges also _______leadership ability in many fields. At a women college, every ______ office is held by women. Recent studies ________ that this leadership continues after _______ . The studies also prove that it is easier for the American women who went to women’s college to _________successful jobs later in life. Maybe that is why this kind of college is liked by people now.

【推荐2】A few years ago, I decided to read a novel or a short story collection from every country in the world. But when it_______to reading the world, the biggest _______ for me was that I didn’t know what to read and how to get the books. I had to turn to others for _______.In October, I _______ my blog and posted a short appeal online. I explained who I was, how_______ my reading had been, and I asked anyone who _______ to leave a message suggesting what I might read from other parts of the planet. I had no idea _______ anyone would be interested, but within a few days people started to get in _______.

Books often came from surprising _______. People gave me different ideas about what to do, I got a message from a woman called Rafidah in Malaysia. She said she loved my project and that she could go to her __________English—language bookshop and __________ a book I needed and post it to me.

I accepted __________, and a few weeks later, a package arrived, __________   not one, but two books —Rafidah’s from Malaysia, and a book from Singapore that she had also __________for me. I was__________that a stranger more than 6000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never meet. But Rafidah’s __________proved to be the pattern for that year.

I was deeply __________ by these kind-hearted strangers around the world and I know it’s the power of books that has __________us across the world. I hope more people will __________ me. If we all read more __________ ,we would all be richer for that.

【推荐3】Jennifer’s mother, a librarian, read to her three children every day. She got them ________ to books. When Jennifer had the ________ to be an elementary school teacher in Danville, Virginia, she had the ________ that her students loved reading just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids were left with limited ________ to books.

“It’s ________ to teachers of young children at the end of the first day of school which kids are ________ to or are not,” she said. To Jennifer, the ________ was simple: give kids books. In 2017, as part of an event called Engage Danville she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be ________ with that.

“Anybody could do that,” she said. “I wanted to do something to ________ my faith.” So she raised the goal ________ by setting a new goal for herself: give away one million books. It sounds like a number beyond her ________ but she got to work, first by ________ friends to donate books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Jennifer’s project ________ strangers started leaving books by her front door. As the books come in, Jennifer gives them to local schools free of charge, and also ________ books to little free libraries around the city of 41, 000. She also ________a book club in the local prison.

In the four years she’s been doing all this. The Book Lady, as Jennifer has come to be ________ has given away more than 78, 000 books! And she has no ________ to slow down. It’s too important for kids with few ________

“Reading can take you ________” she said. “If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”

【推荐3】If you're walking through Boston during a downpour, you might see a poem appear before your eyes. For nearly a year, Bostonians _______ the city streets in the rain may have _______ poems written on the sidewalks.

Titled “Raining Poetry”，this _______ resulted from cooperation between the nonprofit Mass Poetry and the city of Boston. The first poems were installed to _______ the start of National Poetry Month, with several more _______ to the city's streets last May 13. These poems cannot be seen during dry, _______ weather, but appear like magic_______raindrops start falling from the sky.

The poems were _______ by Danielle Legros Georges, Boston's poet laureate (桂冠诗人). They are all based on their _______ to Boston, as well as the general themes of water and rain.

“I wanted to draw works from poets influential in the Boston­area literary, educational or cultural fields,” Georges said.

The poems are __________ to the sidewalks in a matter of minutes and should wear away in six to eight weeks. While all of the poems __________ installed are written in English, Sara Siegel, program director for the Mass Poetry, hopes to add __________ ones in the many languages that are __________ throughout Boston.

“Our hope is in the next two years everyone in the state will meet a poem in their __________ lives at least once or twice a month,” says Siegel. “This is a fun and __________ way to bring poetry to the people.”