【推荐1】I'm a 43-year-old mother of three young kids with a Master of Science degree. I also ______ pizzas for a living. I started doing it after _____ home with my children for four years. Caring for your kids all day is a ______ opportunity for many women, but it wasn't right for me. I began suffering from ______ and decided to get a job so I'd have more of my own identity. Now I work nights when husband is home so we don't have to ______ child care.

After I learned the basics of pizzas delivery—like getting the ______ together and not getting lost—I began my new "career". Being ______ and organized by nature, I studied the tipping patterns of the town.

Our community had a small, expensive liberal-arts ______ full of students who ordered lots of pizzas. Most of the kids were friendly and polite. ______ Friday and Saturday nights, some of the dorms had huge parties. ______   the stairs were sticky from beer and the music was so loud they couldn't ______ me knock on the door, the crowds of happy students shouting, "Pizza! Pizza!" always let me through.

The first few days of each month, one of us drivers would take ______ turn covering the public-housing developments. These customers did not always tip well, ______ I always liked seeing the children and adults sitting outside and ______ the evenings when the weather was nice.

I also deliver to multimillion-dollar homes now, but the ______ I make in tips has stayed the same. As I ______ to these beautiful houses, it's easy to fantasize about a ______ tip. The person who answers the door always _____ young and, like the members of my own family, ______ educated. All I usually get is a brief "Thank you" and a dollar or two.

People might say I'm crazy to waste my education, but I have ______ most of them don't: a job I love.

【推荐2】When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher if I grew up, simply because I wanted to write on the chalkboard! My teachers seemed to be the _______ printers, curving their letters just so, and I wanted to do it _______! Now, after “higher education”, and three _______ career paths, I have come back to want to be a _______, but my reasons have changed. I was _________________, to have teachers that really _______ me as an individual, and I want to _______ this back.

A teacher’s gentleness needs to be shown when _______ or encouraging the students. It is important to make the corrections in order for the students to learn. _______, this needs to be done in a __________ that will help to __________ the student to make the changes necessary,__________ discouraging them from learning. Being patient is also extremely important, because the class needs to know what to __________ from the teacher. This will also help to build a better agreement with the students, and help both the teacher and students to learn more about each other.

If a teacher exhibits a true love of __________ and helping students learn, many of the qualities __________ above will just fall into place. The teacher that had the most __________ on me had the best fame in the school. She was strict, and she did demand a lot, but she was able to show us it was ___________she cared for us. She knew each of us was worth it, and she knew we each could do it. She __________ knowledge, gently, firmly, patiently, respectfully, and most effectively. She gently encouraged us to make __________ when we needed to, and __________ us when we did. She was a true teacher, not just someone who taught, and this is the kind of teacher I hope to be.

【推荐3】I decided to be a teacher when I was 10, because I could clearly see some of my teachers had extraordinary powers.

There was an English teacher in fifth grade who could _______ and effortlessly transport us to different worlds every day by telling us stories from books we would otherwise never _______. It was even shocking that my teacher could _______ the invisible. I was one of those who _______ insight (洞察). Yet my teacher would always notice me and the _______ message in her eyes suggested that she could see me through. She had another superpower and even after four decades, I could still _______ remember her lessons about the great masters of art and great geographers. She did this even though her _______ was not art, nor geography. I knew I wanted to be one of those all-seeing ones with the _______ that made children feel safe and valued.

I know being a teacher isn’t the _______ or the most financially rewarding of jobs. And there are occupational ________ —your knees can become worn out from years of carrying piles of notebooks up and down the school staircase; your ________ can give in from too much talking. But despite all that, there are still those choosing this ________. To them, teaching is not just a job—it is a science, an art and a craft, which demands ________ labour and investment.

I have taught for three decades. Occasionally, I meet my ________ students. Their obvious love for me and fond ________ of our time together are my rewards.

【推荐1】_______ to us all, Martin Luther King was the black leader in America, who devoted his life to the racial equality, and died for his beliefs. The following is a(n) _______ from his famous speech delivered in the large audience of American people. The speech is called “I have a dream”.

I say to you today, my friend, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I will have a dream. It is a dream deeply _______ in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this _______ will rise up and live out the true meaning of its belief that “all men are _______ equal”.

I have a dream that the sons of _______ slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of _______. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis(绿洲) of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation _______ they will not be judged by the color of their skin _______ by the content of their character.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. This is our hope and faith. __________ this faith, we will work together, pray together, struggle together, go to jail together, stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

【推荐2】Recently we carried out a survey of 1,000 people from different countries to find out what they think _______will be like in the future. The results clearly show both our _______and fears.

The survey suggests that_______ — one of the most important human relationships — will change greatly. People will make friends through the Internet. Computers will become really_______by 2050. Even now, some people describe them as their best friends! Others, _______, say that we will become much more isolated (孤立的) from each other _______we will have little real human communication.

Education will _______ a lot too. As more and more children will be using computers in schools, certain _______, such as mental arithmetic (心算), won’t be necessary. Even writing by hand will have become a thing of the_______.

According to the survey, home life will be________. Most people believe that by 2050 robots will be doing the housework and we will be eating________food. A lot of people think that we might only cook for fun in the future. Space exploration will become increasingly________. Fifty percent of the people we talked to ________that man will regularly (定期地) visit Mars.

Pollution is something that seems to ________many people. Some fear that it will________to get worse, and that our planet will become________to live on. Others even ________that one day we' ll have to pay for clean air.

________, people seem to be quite optimistic about genetic engineering (基因工程), as they think scientists will use it to ________diseases like cancer and AIDS.

No matter how dark or bright it may seem, it is up to us to ________our planet and try to make it a better place.

【推荐3】A parent’s hopes for 2030

When 2010 arrived, my son was only a year old—tiny and_________, the master of a few basic words, but still mostly the baby we'd welcomed into the world,_______ all his first times.

Now my baby has grown into a(n) _________—tall, strong, stout, and smart, a(n) _________ of Akira Kurosawa samurai movies.

A _________from now, in 2030, he will be an adult. I expect the next 10 years to fly by, and be filled with _________. As 2020 begins. I am thinking about the kind of world my son will_________ and experience. I _________for him, and for all the young people of his age. So I have several   _________for the world my son and his generation will live in：

I hope we finally get__________about climate change. Polar ice is melting. The oceans are __________ . The question is __________whether we can stop climate change, but whether we’re willing and able to do anything to __________ it.

I’m not sure what a warming planet will mean for my son's life. I__________ it means he will live in a world where nations and groups __________   limited resources like clean water and food, which means that the danger of climate change won't come just from warmer climate, but from other humans competing for control over what’s __________.

The world is always going to be full of __________about how to solve the challenges we face. I hope, too, that my son’s generation learns to __________justice—but to do so with big heart and humility, recognizing our common humanity(人性) even with people who __________ us.

The world of 2030 won’t build itself. We are__________ it now, so my final wish is that we build the kind of world we actually want our children to live in.

【推荐1】Now at some level, all moms and dads know they shouldn’t yell at kids. But if you don’t ________ or talk angrily, how do you discipline (管教)?

For thousands of years, the Inuit have ________an ancient tool: storytelling. Designed to improve kids’ behaviors and sometimes ________save their lives, oral stories are passed down from one ________ to the next. For example, how do you teach kids to ________the ocean? Instead of ________, “Don’t go near the water!” Inuit parents take a unique ________and tell kids a special story about what’s inside the water.

________, those stories seemed to me too scary for little children. And my initial reaction was to ________ them. But my opinion changed after I watched my own daughter’s response to ________tales — and after I learned more about humanity’s complex relationship with storytelling.

Oral storytelling is what’s known as a human ________ . For tens of thousands of years, it has been a key way that parents teach children about values and how to ________. Modern hunter-gatherer groups use ________ to teach sharing, respect for others and conflict avoidance. With the Agta, a hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines, good storytelling skills are ________ more than hunting skills or medicinal knowledge.

Today many parents outsource their oral storytelling to screens, which also ________. We learn best through things that are ________ to us. And stories, by their ________, can have lots of things in them that are much more interesting in a way that bare ________ don’t. Stories with a dash of danger ________ kids like magnets (磁石). And they turn a tension-ridden activity like disciplining into a ________ interaction. So, don’t discount the playfulness of storytelling