【推荐1】The flowers are blooming and the birds are singing as Melinda sits in the rose garden of the nursing home. She is _______ old times as she waits for her family’s arrival. The nursing home has been Melinda’s new _______ ever since Thomas passed away a week ago. Thomas had _______ a long and hard battle against lung cancer for three years. Unfortunately, he has broken the _______ that he and Melinda had made: to be with each other for every _______. Melinda knew this was _______ but agreed to the promise for Thomas’s sake.

“Thomas, you are completely a dreamer.” Melinda shouted to Thomas _______ he dreamed on about living on an island with his beautiful wife. That’s what she loved about him most—he had a vivid _______. They got married at age eighteen and began having children right away. Mary came within the year, _______ by Thomas Benjamin II, Lilly-Ann, and Joseph “Little Joey” George. The family lived a ________ life filled with laughter and love.

“Mom!” Lilly shouted, but it really sounded like a howl. Melinda had ________ herself in thinking about the life she had shared with her ________ husband. Lilly pushed her ________ the long dark halls of the nursing home until they arrived at the recreational room.

When the doors opened, Melinda put her hand over her mouth and was completely ________. The room was crowded with the people nearest and ________ to her and the warmth and love was felt ________. The night went on; stories and cocktails(鸡尾酒) were ________ and everything was ________.

However, when Melinda caught a moment to herself she looked around at her ________ . With a smile on her face, she raised her glass and called out for a ________. “This one is for you, Thomas, though you are not here.”

【推荐2】Emma felt really bad those days. When someone from her daughter’s school informed her that her daughter, Jessica, needed to go to a(n) ________ education school, Emma felt like she was a(n) ________ mother. Because Jessica was always delayed when it came to learning to ________ and walk. Previously, Emma just thought that her child was ________ and every child developed at its own ________. Jessica was five years old, but still was not speaking in ________ sentences. Jessica would not be attending a ________ school. Instead, she would be in a special education school.

While this bothered Emma at first, she soon learned to ________ the school. Jessica had a specialized learning plan called an Individualized Education Plan. This plan set up ________ goals for Jessica, like learning how to feed herself. Jessica also received much individual ________. Instead of her being in a classroom with 20 students, there were only 8 students in her class. There were also some students who were ________ like Jessica. In addition, the class had two teachers’ ________ to help the classroom teacher.

The special education school scheduled ________ therapy (疗法) sessions for Jessica. Once a day a specialist would come in and work with Jessica to help her ________ learning how to move her mouth and tongue and ask for what she wanted.

Emma seemed a little ________ at first that her daughter was in a special education school, but after a year, Emma realized it was the best thing for her.

【推荐2】A town mouse and a country mouse were friends. The country mouse one day_________his friend to come to visit. He wanted his friend to come and see him at his home in the ____. The town mouse came and they sat down to a ______of roots and corn. The country mouse ___the food and he asked his friend to eat more. But his friend didn’t think the food was _______.

After _______for a while, the town mouse finally said, “My _______friend, you live here no better than the ants. Now, you should just see_______I live! There is plenty of nice food in my room. You must come and _______with me. I’m sure you will enjoy your ______there.” The country mouse wanted to eat better food, so he_______.

When the town mouse_________ town, he took the country mouse with him. He showed the visitor into his room which had a lot of nice food. The country mouse had _________seen anything like that and sat down to enjoy the food his friend _____. But right before they had________, the door opened and someone came in. The two mice ______and hid themselves in a narrow hole. After a while, when it was________again, they came out. But someone else came in, and they hid again. This was too much for the__________. “Goodbye,” said the country mouse, “I’m off. You have a lot of nice food to eat, I can see, but there is so much_________ around you. Though I can only enjoy my simple dinner of roots and corn, I can live_______in my hole. ”

【推荐1】15 years spent in the field of education has provided me with treasured moments. One of the most priceless happened when I was teaching second grade, 10 years ago.

In May of the fourth quarter, I decided to _______ something special for the children: A Mother’s Day tea. We put our _______ together to come up with ideas of how to _______ our mothers. We decided to hold our tea the Friday before Mother’s Day. Each child took home an invitation and I was _______ to see that every mother was planning to attend. I even invited my own mother.

Finally the _______ day arrived. At 1:45 that afternoon, each child lined up at our classroom waiting for the _______ of his or her mom. As it got closer to starting time, I looked around and my eyes quickly found Jimmy. His mother hadn’t _______ and he was looking anxious.

I took my _______ by the hand and walked over to Jimmy. “Jimmy,” I said. “I have a bit of problem here and I was wondering if you could _______. I’m going to be really busy. I was wondering if you could keep my mother company while I’m busy.”

My mom and Jimmy sat at a table with two other mother-and-child ________. Jimmy served my mom her treats, presented her with the gifts I had made, and pulled out and pushed in her chair, just as we had practised the day before. ________ I looked over, my mom and Jimmy were in ________ conversation.

Now, 10 years later, I work with students of all ages, educating them about the environment. Last year, I was at a high school to ________ a senior class on a field trip, and there was Jimmy. When Jimmy made sure we were the last two, he said, “Remember our Mother’s Day ________ we had in second grade? Thanks for all you did for me, and thank your mother, too. No one knew my mom didn’t make it!” I ________ my work with a hug from a teenage boy who had probably stopped hugging teachers years ago.

【推荐2】My father often works very hard. And he has __________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you __________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and __________ go home, he found a film ticket under the __________on his desk. He thought he __________to have not much work to do that day and __________ was quite wonderful to pass the __________at the cinema. So he came back home and __________finished his supper. Then he said __________ to us and left.

But to our ____________, he came back about half an hour later, I ____________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about ____________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a ____________came to my father’s and said that the seat was ____________. My father was surprised. He took out the ticket ____________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, ____________. And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her ____________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3. ____________? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The ____________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, ____________, I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.

【推荐3】When I first met Begay at Los Ninos Elementary on “King and Queen Day”, she was wearing a smile ear-to-ear.

This morning, though, Begay was________. The parent she had been trying to________was a no-show again. Begay________needed to talk to her. Her boy was smart, but now about a year behind. She________ there were problems at home. He was always late and had already missed too much school.

By 8 a.m. , kids were arriving, and Begay’s classroom quickly became a beehive(蜂窝)of activity. Forty-five minutes later, the little boy finally walked in, with his head and shoulders________. Rather than________him in front of the class, Begay welcomed him warmly. He was testing Begay’s long-held________that no child is a lost cause, no matter how troubled he seems. “It’s the unspoken ________teachers start out with,” Begay said.

During lunch I sat down with Begay’s students and asked them what they liked about her.

“ She never gets angry, “ said one girl. A boy________:” She’s funny and likes telling jokes.”

Before we left the________, the shy, quiet girl next to me________,” She teaches me when I don’t want to learn.”

Her_______stayed with me. When I shared it with Begay, I told her that I felt it was a very ________thing for a child to say. She agreed.

“They never express that to me.” said Begay, “But that’s what I________. I want them to enjoy school. I want them to feel like someone________them.”