【推荐1】Mrs. Hudson walked into the classroom with a girl limping (瘸着走) behind her. She introduced, “This is Margaret. She just moved here from Florida. Let’s _______ her.” The teacher guided her _________ to a front seat, then bent over and _______ something in her ear. Finishing explaining the math problems, Mrs. Hudson _______, “Milk- break time. See you in ten minutes.”

Boys _________ first. “Today, let’s meet at the far end of the sidewalk. And make sure the new girl doesn’t follow us!” I said. After a while, I came back to the _________. I wanted to find out if Mrs. Hudson liked my book report. With her usual big smile, she began, “Jack, you are a good _________.” Shifting my weight from one foot to the other, I was a little _________ that Mrs. Hudson liked me so much. Her _________ let me know how much she appreciated having me around. My teacher __________ in her quiet voice. “That’s __________ I am sure you will invite Margaret to play with you today.” Her __________ words sounded like frozen knives aiming at my heart. Could she ________ suspect what we had been saying about Margaret? Could she know how __________ I was?

Then I managed to __________ Margaret in our group. While many school memories have __________ over the years, the __________ Mrs. Hudson taught me has stayed with me. Mrs. Hudson gently guided me, ________ me to do the right thing. She believed in me, and __________ what she did, I rose to the level of her __________, both for Margaret long ago and even later in my choice of career.

【推荐2】Jenna had graduated from her middle school and was lucky enough to be admitted to Westwood College. She was ready for new ___at the college and filled with confidence. ___, she didn’t expect it that college life was quite ___. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts for cheerleaders. She was competing against very talented girls, and she knew it would be ___ for her to be selected. Two hours later, the ___read a list of the girls for a second tryout. Her heart ___ as the list ended without her name. Feeling ___, she walked back to her dormitory carrying her schoolbag full of homework.

Arriving at the dormitory, she started with ___. She had always been a good math student, but now she was ___. She moved on to English and history, and was ____ to find that she didn’t have any trouble with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to ____ math for the time being.

The next day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school ____. Mrs. Biden wasn’t as enthusiastic as Jenna. "I’m sorry, ____ we have enough ____ for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we’ll talk then." Jenna smiled ____ and left. "Why is college so different?" she sighed.

Later in math class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much ____. By the end of the class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she’d ____to try to fit in with her new school. She wasn’t sure if she’d ____, but she knew she had to try. College was just as her mom had said, "You will feel like a small fish in a big pond ____a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the ____fish you can be."

【推荐3】What does taking a risk mean? It means ______ your comfort zone, and at times doing ______ things even if they terrify you. One of the greatest risks I’ve ever taken was auditioning(试演) for my high school’s play. Not only was I a person who had no ______ experience, but also I stuttered(口吃).

The thought of performing in front of people ______ me. The reason why I decided to have a try was that I wanted to get ______ in my school’s theater program. On the day of the audition, there was also a special acting workshop(研习班) which meant to warm us up. I walked in and set my backpack down on the floor. I ______ and saw about twenty people calmly making preparations. Soon we began special acting exercises. We were divided into ______ to prepare parts of the play. I was very anxious. After I delivered some of the lines, my partner said, “Oh, I ______ you are stuttering. Is that for dramatic effect or do you really stutter?” I was ______.

When it was my turn to audition, my heart was beating fast. Across from me, the director and two of his assistants sat on metal chairs. Needless to say, I was really worried about my performance. In the ______, I played the role of a male painter who pretended to be a woman. My partner was playing an evil picture dealer who was determined to marry me. We said our lines and, ______, I didn’t stutter. The whole process went smoothly, and finally the audition was over. I was so ______.

The next Monday I got a call telling me that I had ______ the play. I was overjoyed. It was a lot of fun doing the play, and it was really worth it. It was ______ to me: My stuttering couldn’t prevent me from doing the things I wanted to do, and taking risks, ______ it embarrassed me, was well worth time and effort.

【推荐1】It’s Wednesday at Lismore South Public School, in northern New South Wales, Australia. A group of eight-year-olds practise _______ with four-legged friend Maggie. Sandy-haired Charlie says he likes her “because she’s so calm”.

Maggic, too, is eight human-years old and _______ enjoys Story Dogs, which is now in 239 Australian schools. Owner, Anne Meagher, says Maggie was rather _______ and good at escaping when she first adopted (领养) her. Now Maggie can stay still and patiently allows readers to _______ books on her stomach.

“It _______ best when the children come face-to-face with Maggie,” Anne says. “I’ll _______ our rug (地毯) under a tree and we always finish with Maggie doing something fun. It’s a simple enough idea, reading to a _______, but somehow the children _______ and find reading easier.” Maggie _______ listens to the children read. She doesn’t ________ them or correct them. She’s non-judgmental. But the facts show she is helping children ________. I haven’t had one student in two years who hasn’t improved. I think we create a space where they can feel ________ to make mistakes and have a ________.

Karen Newton, the Lismore South Public School’s teacher, says ________ are satisfactory. “Parents say their children have ________ in home reading and they are more engaged with it. We’ve found comprehension (理解力) has improved.” she says.

“Story Dogs is ________,” says Janine Sigley who, with Leah Sheldon, came up with the programme, to make reading ________ for children, so they become confident lifelong readers.

“Schools have not only reported improved reading but also ________ self-confidence among readers who become more prepared to join classroom activities,” Janine says. “Story Dogs is helping to build up kids’ interest in reading, and once a child ________ to read, they can do so much ________ at school.”

【推荐2】In my class were many children who had had great trouble with reading. I decided to try at all costs to __ them of their fear and dislike of __.

One day in class, I said to to them, “Now I’m going to say something about reading that you have never heard a teacher say before. I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them only for __. I am not going to ask your questions to find out whether you __ books or not, if you understand enough of a book to enjoy it and want to __ reading it, that’s enough for me.”

The children were __ and silent. One girl, who had just come to us from a school where she had had a very __ time, looked at me for a long time after I had __ .Then she said slowly, “Mr. Holt, do you really __       that?” I nodded.

Apparently she decided to __ me. The first book she read was Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, not a(n) __ book even for most third graders. For a while she read a number of books at this __. Perhaps she was understanding some __ about reading that her teacher had never given her enough time to       __.

During the spring semester, she really __ me, however. One day, in one of our many free periods, she was reading at her desk. I __ what the book was. I said to myself, “It can’t be.” ___ I asked, “Don’t you find parts of it rather difficult?” She answered, “Oh, sure, but I just __ those parts and go on to the next good part”

【推荐1】William Kamkwamba lives in Malawi, Africa, where most people have no electricity or running water. Only two percent of Malawians can _______ electricity. Life there is difficult. In 2001, when William was 14 years old, life in Malawi became even _______.

Because of the _______, William’s family couldn’t afford to send him to school any more. So one day William went to the _______ near his home and found a science book called Using Energy. It included _______ for building a windmill. Windmills can be very _______ sources of electricity, and they can bring water _______ from underground.

William didn’t know much English, but most of the book was full of _______. Looking at them, William thought he could _______ a windmill for his family. When William went home and started to do it, a lot of people ________ him, including his mother. They didn’t think he could do it, but William was confident. William was also ________. He looked for parts in junkyards to build the machine.

William changed and improved his design little by little. First, the windmill powered only one lightbulb. Then there was ________ electricity for four lights and a radio. No one laughed at William. Later, William built ________ second windmill. This one brought water up from underground. Because of his success with the windmills, William was able to go back to school. ________, he uses his website, movingwindmills.org, to educate and give hope to people. Trust yourself and believe. ________ happens, don’t give up.

【推荐2】Rehn Staton recently found he was accepted by Harvard Law School — as well as to law schools at Columbia, UPenn, USC and Pepperdine. For Staton, the sky’s the limit, _________ it wasn’t always that way. He once worked as a sanitation worker (环卫工人) in Maryland before _________ his dreams and applying for law school.

Staton, 24, was raised by a single father who worked hard to _________ him and his brother. Staton said growing up was _________ and he used to struggle in school. One teacher even _________ he switch to a special education class. But with the help of a tutor, who worked with Staton for free, he _________ it.

Staton was a high school _________, focusing on martial arts and boxing. After suffering an injury, Staton said his _________ for college became fewer. “It ruined the chances of me turning _________ in sports. So, that’s to say, when applying to college, I got denied by every single one,” he said.

Instead of pursuing higher __________ , Staton started working at Bates Trucking & Trash Removal, which he said changed his life in ways he never __________. He said he wanted to work there __________ there was something he could do to help his dad pay for the mortgage (按揭贷款). “What I didn’t expect to __________ was, most of the people I worked with were formerly incarcerated (监禁)… So, it caught me __________ surprise how much they uplifted me and really wanted me to make __________ of myself. It was the people that were on the __________ of the hierarchy (等级) who really lifted me up,” he said.

His __________ encouraged him to apply to Bowie State University in 2014, and in 2016, he transferred to the University of Maryland. “After I started doing well there, I just knew I wanted to go and __________ law,” Staton said. He took the LSAT and applied to nine schools — getting __________ to five and wait listed at the other four. __________, Staton decided to commit to Harvard Law School — and he’ll never forget all the people who helped him get there.