【推荐2】I stood in a noisy group of sixth grade students， waiting for the answer to our burning question: What type of crazy tie would Mr. Miller be___________ today?

Our teacher walked around the comer with a GREEN ELEPHANT TIE that___________his large elephant coffee cup! Oh， the___________in our young hearts — a green elephant tie!

With his glasses at the tip of his nose， he greeted us___________，“Good morning， folks!” He was strange and unique and he___________everyday for us． He was the most dynamic teacher I had ever___________

I loved music so I remember how___________I was when he said he was going to give us music lesson．But when he turned on the music， my classmate and I slowly turned our heads toward the ___________of   Peter， Paul and Mary singing If I had a Hammer． Laughter _________the room． If it wasn't rap or hip hop， we didn't recognize it．__________________were these people singing about? My classmate were not into this at all． But for me， a girl of 12， it was a__________________． An awakening．

Twenty years__________________and now there are forty little eyes staring at my wild musical-note shirt as I greet them with a__________________“Good morning， class!” I wonder if my__________________wait and wonder what crazy music clothes I will wear each day．

Ⅰ__________________my 2018 Teacher of the Year Award， which I received for being a dynamic teacher and I__________________to myself， wondering which child in front of me will carry this one —__________________I've carried on the legacy （遗产） of Mr. Miller．

One teacher， who dared to be different and__________________new worlds to kids like me， threw the significant__________________into the pond of my life． I pray the ripples__________________end．

【推荐3】Kindness is a simple answer in a sometimes difficult and challenging world.For a long time it has been my work to____and appreciate all people and to____others to do the same.

When my granddaughter Skylar was young and we'd go out,we had a(n)____called "Who can make the most people smile?" And we continue it today.It____for a wonderful day.When Skylar sees someone walking down the aisle with her____down,she'll walk up to her and gives her a big____.I watch her walk on.turn around and smile at Skylar____ perhaps smile at someone else.

Kindness is a chain that____us all together.In 2002,my dad had a series of strokes and other illness.At that time, I was in a women's networking____.One day I asked the ladies if they could send their____energies and maybe do something nice for someone to whom they would not____think about doing something nice.

That same day,I made cookies for the____at the post office.When I gave him the cookies he____looked a little embarrassed."Why,Linda?"he asked."Because I____you!"I answered."When I get here at 6 a.m.and it is still____ outside,knowing you are inside makes me feel____.And when I first moved here and my post office____was always empty,you always____me on.And you keep this place____."That evening his wife called me and said that he was ____."No one even knows his name,let alone bakes him cookies!"

【推荐1】In times of stress and depression, a friend would always suggest going for a walk. But I regarded it as nothing but the best _________. I didn’t understand how these things could _________.

Three years ago, I hit a low point. Once I saw a pair of _________ eyes looking at me through the mirror. I realized I had to take the _________ I fought so hard to ignore. I went for a walk — with the hope that it would _________ change my life.

I walked several miles a day for the first two weeks, but it did nothing. Then I _________ to it every single day for more than a month. There were days when I could _________ make it outside, but I managed to _________. Every time I went out to walk, I took a _________. I think I wanted to document myself trying to make an __________.

As time passed by, one day the __________ happened. I found myself smiling. I found myself longing to be outside from time to time. What I once __________ had become the best part of my day. I never had a destination in mind, nothing in particular. I just __________ along the paths, stopped to look at the blue skies and listened to music.

I’m glad I took the photos because there was an obvious difference in my face. I slowly started to look less __________ and tired. Till now, I don’t know why I __________ to do so for so long. I guess I didn’t want to believe that something small at the surface could actually have an impact on my physical and mental well-being.

【推荐2】It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the____and take my seat. I____the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.

I start to take out my books, ____ full well that I will be____on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s____—for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be____.

Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am____with the usual big hugs and smiles. ____, the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home____the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and____new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our____home.

During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to ____the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously____to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.

So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were____great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my____would improve. Right? Well….

But that’s not the____. I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information____the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is____about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as____to me as my Social Security number.

Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the____free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.

【推荐1】When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment. On a Friday night I_____at dinner table, “My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our valentines (情人节) on Monday”.

Mother said, “We’ll see,” and she continued eating.

What did “We’ll see” mean? I had to have that box_____my second grade Valentine’s Day would be a disaster. Maybe they didn’t love me enough to help me with my_____.

All Saturday I waited_____and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased, but I_____an enquiry（询问）about the box might_____anger or loud voice, for in my house children only asked once. More than that_____trouble.

Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen. The table was covered with colorful_____of different kinds. A (n)_____shoebox rested on top of it._____flooded through me when Daddy said, “Let’s get started_____your project.”

In the next hour my father_____the shoebox into impressive valentine box. Colorful paper covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts_____to what I considered all the right places. He sang while he worked. When he finished, he was so delighted that a_____smile spread over his face. “What do you think of that?” he asked.I answered him with a hug.

But inside,_____danced all the way to my heart. It was the first time that my father devoted so much_____to me, for his world consisted of work only.

The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards, and presents into the valentine boxes. Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal time_____.

On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to_____. The love that filled it meant more to me than all the valentines inside. The valentine box became a symbol of his love that_____through decades of other Valentine’s Days. He gave me other gifts through the years, but none_____compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old, empty shoebox.

【推荐3】As a junior student in middle school, I hadn’t seen my primary school for nearly two years. The ____ of this childhood paradise (天堂) had begun to fade (淡化). As I ____ my primary school, I remembered the past times and missed my teachers very much, ____ asked my father to drive me to ____ my old school.

After circling around several street comers, we arrived. I ____ jumped from the car and ran towards the huge, black ____.Standing beside the gate, I could clearly remember a (an) ____ girl with a thin body and a pink schoolbag running through the gate and ____ with her friends. The girl was me then. Entering the gate I felt ____ was the same the red classroom buildings, and the playgrounds covered with ____ green grass. I stood on the playground where I’d once ____ with nose bleeding (流鼻血).My PE teacher supported me up and wiped my ____ with a clean towel.

I heard the ring of the school ____. Children ran from the classrooms and ran onto the playground, laughing and talking. Some played sports. ____ others played games. ____ had the bell rung again when everyone entered the classroom, leaving me standing ____. I looked around, and my mind was filled with the____ memories of the past.

I walked along the school road which ____ me back to the school gate. With a heavy heart, I climbed back into the ____ “This is the place that helped me grow.” I said to myself. I was really thankful for the teachers as I said “goodbye” to the place that ____ so much to me. I knew I would visit it for a second time, third time and more.