【推荐1】William may have been scared in the moment, but he said it didn’t stop him from jumping into action when he noticed his teacher Jack needed ________ help.

After 1 p. m. Jack was giving a class when students ________ he was having trouble speaking. A few students called 911 while William and another classmate ran to find another teacher, Pam, who took ________ of the scene. Pam had the students empty the room in ________ for medical staff to arrive.

Jack, 71, retired in 2014. He now works as a substitute teacher and ________ to coach school sports. Jack told the reporters the students noticed changes in his face and ________. “I’ve . no previous history of anything and I’ve been active all my life, ” Jack said. “So when the stroke was occurring, I directly ________ it. That’s why I give the students so much ________. They trusted their judgments and they stayed on the situation. ”

The principal Joshua said, “We are very ________ that our students responded decisively(果断地)and ________ in this moment of crisis. Any ________ could have had terrible consequences for Jack, and our students’ decisions made all the________. ”“While I am extremely proud of our students, I’m not at all ________ that they rose to the occasion, ” he added.

“As the principal, I have the pleasure to see and hear about daily acts of ________ and courage from our students. ”

William said it was “amazing” to be ________ in saving his teacher’s life. “It’s a good feeling, ”he added.

【推荐2】When I entered the fifth grade, I changed schools because my family moved to a new district. A_________of girls at the new school seemed to be the most popular girls in my whole grade.

One day, the two girls happened to_________next to me at break time. They were talking about the_________things that were on the mind of an 11-year-old at the time.

“School’s such a_________. I got a C in last week’s math test,” said one girl.

The other girl_________, “So did I. It was so unfair. Did you see what Michelle is wearing? It’s so_________. It suits her looks, though.”

_________one of them turned to me and asked what grade I had got in the test.

“An A,” I replied.

They were_________at first, but then the same girl said: “Do you know you’re fat?”

The classmates around us started laughing. The laughter continued as my_________started to melt to the floor. “Why did she say that to me? Did my__________look bad, just like Michelle’s?” Finally I started thinking that I might__________be fat.

My__________changed overnight. I knew that I could never be good friends with anyone who was friends with those two girls, or anyone who wanted to be friends with them.

As time went on, I realized that those people had no__________to say what was about me. I was not fat, and there’s nothing__________with being clever. I was able to make new friends with whom I could just be myself. I learned all that mattered was how I__________myself.

【推荐3】Mrs. Humboldt was my brother’s science teacher. It was said that her look once________all the sixth-graders. The teacher never smiled and seemed hard to get close to, which was far from their________. What they had been wishing for was an easy-going teacher.

Mrs. Humboldt________rules. She believed rules could push better habits and self-control. It was really a(n)________for students like my brother who didn’t follow rules. He always arrived late, and made various excuses to________homework. So he wasn’t a stranger________the teacher’s office. He seemed to be afraid of her.

However, in the days and months followed, my brother looked like a________person. He began to behave________. He got up early________it was an extremely cold morning. He finished his homework as soon as he came home. The only thing that didn’t change was that he still________Mrs. Humboldt for her being________with him. He once said to me that Mrs. Humboldt paid much attention to his________at school every day. He had to follow Mrs. Humboldt’s rules.

Later, he successfully entered a key high school. One day, my brother told us something that really________us. He said that Mrs. Humboldt was actually a great teacher and that he finally understood her good________. She really prepared him for high school. He added that Mrs. Humboldt was the teacher he wanted to________most.

【推荐1】Back in 2007, Uruguay had a serious problem with no obvious answer: The economy was growing very fast, but there wasn’t enough energy to power the rapid _________.

Then Ramón Méndez Galain, a physicist, started _________ different potential paths for Uruguay’s energy future. Finally, he wrote a plan that Uruguay could almost entirely _________ renewable energy. There would be less _________ and it would be the most economical choice Uruguay could make in the long run.

Méndez Galain’s plan was built around two simple _________ about his country. First, while there wasn’t a domestic (国内的) supply of coal or oil, there was a great deal of _________. Second, that wind blew over a country that was known for _________ grassland. His plan for Uruguay’s energy future was to _________ the empty grassland into hundreds of wind farms.

To solve the problem of how to pay for all those wind farms, Méndez Galain came up with a variation on a(n) _________ used by some electric plants in neighboring Brazil, in which state owned power plants handled energy generation, while __________ companies were in charge of power distribution and customer service. Méndez Galain’s plan changed the relationship to the __________, so that private companies would be in charge of setting up and __________ the wind farms, while the state-owned power companies would distribute that energy to its customers.

The strategy worked __________ well. Just within a few years, Méndez Galain had __________ what he had set out to do: 98% of Uruguay’s __________ comes from renewable sources.

【推荐3】I was driving my 5-year-old son home when I saw a homeless man in the median strip (中央分隔带) in the road.

I wanted to give the man some ________ , but I didn’t have any cash. My son ________ the man as well and he insisted that I give the man the 30 cents he had. It seemed that he had read my ________ and he responded out loud.

I was more than ________ that he wanted to help, but honestly, I was ________ . I didn’t want to give just 30 cents to this man who clearly ________ more help. My own pride and ________ over the homeless man's disappointed reaction to ________ just two coins stood in the way.

I quickly realized that I was the only ________ in the situation and that the traffic light would turn green soon. I then thought to myself, “I’ve been teaching him about ________ others and now that he wants to give everything he can ________ , I shouldn’t let my personal self-centeredness ________ this act of kindness.”

I almost told my son, “Let’s wait to ________ until we at least have one dollar.” I almost told my son that what he had wasn’t ________ . I almost showed him that what he saw as a good thing couldn’t make a ________ in someone’s life. I almost taught him that personal ________ was more important than helping another human.

________ , I quickly got rid of that foolishness.

I then rolled down the window and said to the man, “I’m sorry. I don’t have any cash on me, but my 5-year-old son back in the ________ wants to give you everything he has right now.”

To my ________ , the smile on that man's face lit up the intersection. The only thing that matched the ________ of that stranger’s smile was the bigger smile on my boy’s face.