【推荐1】A teacher in a primary school is doing a science lesson. She asks all the children to do a/an ________ of their own choosing. After the children have been ________ for a few minutes, she gets to the desk of little Johnny. Johnny has a/an ________ on his desk and she asks what he is doing.

“Well, Miss, the spider’s name is Herbert and ________ this,” Johnny says. Then he ________ down to the spider and whispers(低语), “Run, Herbert!” And the spider, as if by magic, moves across the desk. The teacher is a little puzzled. Johnny then takes the spider and ________ one leg. The teacher is ________ but lets the experiment continue. Johnny again whispers, “Run, Herbert!” And the spider moves across the desk again. Johnny then ________ the spider and removes another 2 legs and ________ the experiment. By this time the teacher is getting a little ________.

The experiment ________ in the same way until Herbert, the spider, has one leg left. The teacher at this point is ________ dumbfounded(目瞪口呆). Johnny then bends down to the spider and removes the ________ leg. Again he whispers, “Run, Herbert!” But Herbert doesn’t ________. He repeats the ________ but a little bit louder. After several attempts(尝试), Johnny is now ________, “Run, Herbert!” But still no movement. Johnny then looks at the ________ and she asks, “Well, a ________ experiment, but what are you trying to ________ with it?” Johnny replies, “Well, Miss, spiders with no ________ are deaf.”

【推荐3】“What are those?” Jennifer asked me. I looked over at two large raised beds (苗圃) and answered, “Those are potatoes.”

In class, she usually ________ herself in the work in front of her. Today, however, she frowned. “But...” she started with her voice fading to a ________ . With a sinking feeling I knew where this ________ was going. “But they’re green.” she started again. “Well, the bits we eat,—the ________ —are brown, while what you are looking at is the part above the soil.” I tried my hardest not to sound ________ .

Looking ________ , Jennifer shook her head. I knew the situation certainly called for immediate ________ . I reached over to the potato plant,________ it by its branches and leaves, and pulled. As the plant was ________ into the air, several large tubers (块茎) dropped onto the ground. I held the plant high in the air,________ a few more potatoes that were still attached at the roots.

Jennifer stood with a shocked look on her face. I held one out for her to touch. As she took the potato in her hand, understanding ________ across her face. Once ________ from the stems and leaves, the tuber was now something that she recognized.________ , she smiled and said, “I had no idea where they came from.”

For me, that best ________ how much pupils seem to know about their food and its production. This is why I started an eco-garden at school. We need pupils to be given opportunities to interact with nature and inspired to be ________ of the world around them.

【推荐1】It was a regular day for volunteer firefighter Matt Owens. As he drove home from visiting a friend, he_______a little baby magpie (喜鹊) on the side of the road. He had no idea how special that bird would be when he _______to investigate. Finding she had blood all over, Matt _______her in his hands and took her home.

His neighbour, a vet (兽医), examined the injured chick _______ and pronounced that if she made it through the night, she’d be all right. Matt was excited the following morning to _______ his new rescue, now named Swoop, was indeed alive.

Matt’s major _______while Swoop recovered was his cat Mogli. Anyway, cats eat birds. It’s _______ . So he kept Swoop high up on a table. However, much to his_______, the cat wasn’t eyeing Swoop up for lunch. Instead, the two were often seen lying on the sofa, fast asleep.

Meanwhile, Matt started _______her, teaching her how to hunt for insects and slowly helping her build her ________in flying.

Matt ________ her progress and her unusual friendship with Mogli online, which went ________. The one-in-a-million ________of feather (羽毛) and fur won many netizens’ hearts.

Despite his love for Swoop, Matt ________that people shouldn’t pick up baby magpies if there’s no ________ of injury and the best thing to do is leave them there.

【推荐2】That day Bill Price was attending a reunion for a summer program. He remembers standing outside after the reunion, _______ with friends. Eventually, everyone said their _______ — leaving Price standing by himself.

“Sometimes when you’re _______, it’s fine,” Price said. “But sometimes when you’re alone, you feel _______. And that’s the way I felt then.”

Nearby, another group of teenagers stood laughing and _______. “I found myself wishing so much to be a part of them,” Price _______. One of the teenagers was a person named Wendy Westman. She and Price had only met in another summer program a few months earlier. As Price stood there, feeling _______ lonely, Westman turned around and _______ him if he’d like to join them.

“My life was transformed at that moment,” Price said.

Westman’s kindness _______ a realization in Price: He could offer that same ________ to anyone, at any time. “It’s so easy to see someone who seems left out and alone and ________ them, say hello to them, be kind to them,” Price explained. “And I realize that is a gift that everyone can ________.”

Price became a psychiatrist (精神科医生). His job is being kind to his ________, listening to them and being attentive to their ________. Price attributes his understanding of the importance of kindness to that ________.

【推荐3】The teacher who changed my life was Marjorie Hurd. She actually set the ______ of my life in the new land I entered as a young war refugee (难民).

Shortly after I met Marjorie Hurd, I was ______. She introduced me to the ______ wealth of Greece — giving me a new ______ on my war-ravaged (受战争蹂躏的) homeland. I began to be proud of my ______.

One day, after ______ how writers should write about what they know, she ______ us to compose an essay from our own experience. Then looking at me, she ______, “Nick, I want you to write about what happened to your family back in Greece.” I had been trying to put those ______   memories behind me and left the assignment until the last moment. Then I ______ the essay, hoping never to see it again, but Miss Hurd ______ the essay to a contest sponsored by the Worcester paper and it won a medal.

For the first time I began to understand the ______ of the written word. I followed the literary path that Miss Hurd had once set me on. After graduation, I became the ______ of the Worcester paper. When the paper ______ a picture of me standing next to President Kennedy, my father cut out the photograph and ______ it in his breast pocket for the rest of his life to show everyone he met.

【推荐2】One summer afternoon decades ago, Dad and I explored a recreational park on a boat. The gentle lake around and the clear sky overhead provided slight relief from the August ________. Sitting back with my eyes closed, I ________ Dad rowing (划) quietly.

Suddenly a(n) ________, desperate buzzing (嗡嗡) came from the right side of my head. I sat up straight and looked around instantly. On my ________ landed a bee marked by bright black and yellow bands on the body. I, frozen in extreme ________, sat there with my eyes ________ as big as saucers.

"Don't move and it'll not bother you." Dad kept rowing skillfully, both hands ________. "It's tired and needs ________ for a hot day. Once it's back to himself, it'll keep on going."

"What? Was Dad telling me to just let a terror sit on my shoulder?" Gradually I gained my ________ and turned my head slowly, giving it a look. There it sat, wings folded neatly against its body. I was ________ by how perfectly formed it seemed. Finally, my curiosity ________ my fear and I relaxed. No sooner had I done that than it began spreading its wings and ________ off.

"I've told you." he simply said.

My father is no longer alive, but the ________ of that moment has taken root in my heart. For the first time I've ________ the fact that we are all one, all part of the same ________, small or big, human or insect.