【推荐2】I had worried myself sick over Simon’s mother coming to see me. I was a new _________, and I gave an honest account of the students’ work. In Simon’s case, the grades were very low. He couldn’t read his own handwriting.

So when Simon’s mother entered the room, my palms (手掌)were sweating. I was completely _________ for her kisses on both my cheeks. “I came to thank you, ” she said, surprising me beyond speech. She told me that _________ me, Simon had become a different person. He talked of how he _________ me, he had begun to make friends, and for the first time in his twelve years, he had _________ spent an afternoon at a friend’s house. She wanted to tell me how thankful she was for the _________ I had nurtured (培养)in her son. She kissed me again and left.

I sat, shocked, for about half an hour, _________ what had just happened. How did I make such a life-changing difference to that boy without __________ knowing it? What I finally came to __________ was one day, several months before, when some students were __________ reports in the front of the class. Jeanne spoke __________ and to encourage her to raise her voice, I had said, “Speak up. Simon’s the expert on this. He is the __________ one you have to convince, and he can’t hear you in the __________ of the room. ” That was it. From that day on, Simon had sat up straighter, paid more attention, __________ more, and became happy. And it was all because he __________ to be the last kid in the last row. The boy who most needed __________ was the one who took the last seat that day.

It taught me the most __________ lesson over the years of my teaching career, and I’m thankful that it came __________ and positively. A small kindness can indeed make a difference.

【推荐3】When Susan was a high school student, her English teacher, Fred DiMeo, asked her to carry out a task: Recite (背诵) a poem in front of the whole class.

“I had a mild stutter (口吃), which tried the _________ of my classmates,” Susan said. The thought of _________ in front of the class and stuttering through the _________ was too much to bear. When the day of the recitation came, Susan, painfully shy and _________, recited the poem. Once she was done, DiMeo said something she’d never _________ before: that he liked listening to her voice. For the first time, she _________ that public speaking didn’t have to be a source of _________. “I think in his mind he just wanted me to _________ I have nothing to be afraid of,” Susan said.

Susan went on to graduate from high school and go to college. She never got to _________ thank DiMeo. Sometime after college, she managed to __________ a job as a trainer. The work made her know how big an __________ DiMeo had had on her confidence. “It’s so __________ to stand up in front of people and speak with them. And I do it all the time,” she said.

Susan recently found a way to __________ her teacher, and sent him a letter expressing her __________. “ You played a big role in my life,” she wrote. “I don't know where I would’ve gone if I felt like I had to keep my voice __________ because I was afraid of embarrassing (使尴尬) myself. ”

【推荐2】Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would _______ around and take all morning just to have a lesson,” Phoenix ________. “And I loved it.”

But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better ________. So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced but known for being ________. And she quickly lived up to that ________. Phoenix found the stressful life was ________ like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he ________ that he would quit.

One day, however, Bade ________ him and said something surprising, “I have ________ in you. Keep going.” Then the unwilling student did something surprising ________: he said, “Okay.”

“It was as if all I wanted was just a ________ from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.

That moment ________ their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having ________ during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

“I went into ________ and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I owe (把...归功于) it all to that ________ moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”

【推荐3】Leslie Morissette’s son, Graham, was 6 years old when he was diagnosed with leukemia (白血病). Throughout Graham’s _______ in the hospital, Graham connected with everyone he met, from _______ patients to younger children. “He would lend other sick children his toys or act silly to make them laugh. ” Morissette said. “Graham’s special spirit is what kept me going. He gave me the energy and the _______ to fight with him.” In 1997, when he was 8 years old, Graham passed away.

_______ by how Graham lived his life caring about others, Morissette _______ the nonprofit Grahamtastic Connection in his honor. The organization provides free technology—including computers, iPads, and robots—to children _______ cancer and other serious illnesses.

One of the major goal of Morissette’s work is to _______ kids to their classrooms, which really helps them continue their education despite hospitalizations and days _______ from school.

The robots “transport” children right into the classroom in real time. They can _______ the robots right from their hospital bed or home. If a child is unable to attend school, they can ________ log on to their tablet or laptop and call in to the robot. They can ________ up and down the school paths. They can go to lunch with their ________. The real magic happens between classes, when they’re walking down the hallway with their friends, by robot, ________ their weekend and their favorite foods and other things.

Morissette said, “I believe that Graham’s ________ lives on in the work that I do. And I’m ________ and privileged to be able to do it in his honor.”