【推荐1】For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at music students, _______across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, _______at school for practice hours _______ anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to_______music, as he hated getting to school extra early.

_______, one day, in the music class that was _______of his school’s standard curriculum, he was playing idly (随意地)on the piano and found it _________to pick out tunes. With a sinking feeling, he realized that he actually _______doing it. He tried to hide his _______pleasure from the music teacher, who had ________over to listen. He might not have done this particularly well, ________the teacher told Gabriel that he had a good________and suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there ________him. There he decided to give the cello(大提琴) a ________. When he began practicing, he took it very ________. But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was ________to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

This ________, of course, that he arrived at school early in the morning, ________his heavy instrument case across the campus to the ________looks of the non-musicians he had left________.

【推荐2】Letting me move into my university dormitory wasn’t an easy decision for my parents. However, they knew if I wanted a good ___, I’d have to live away from home. I’d always __ living alone ： the life of no rules and regulations and being independent. So I was __ about this new stage in my life.

___,during the first few months of living alone，I’d find myself crying every day. I’d call my mum every day. I __ to fly back home as soon as I got any time off. That was the only thing I was __ about. Coming from a big family, I was __ to noises surrounding me. Therefore, the scary __ at night was the worst. I couldn’t even ___without keeping the lights on.

As time went by, I started enjoying the___ that came with living alone. I could do things in my own time： eat whenever I want, wake up whenever I want. The space of loneliness was   also then __ by friends who became like family, so I __ missing my family less.

When it was time to say goodbye and go back home after my __ I   was bittersweet. I’d __ my time alone, learning things which wouldn’t have been __ if I had never moved away from home. But I’d also missed my family too much.

I’d learned a lot from this __ . Living alone made me value ___time even more.I realized that every second with them __ though I might not get the freedom I had while living alone.

I   guess it’s __ for everybody, but for me,there is no warmth in a house __ it’s filled with loving members and people you love.

【推荐3】I was a paperboy — well actually, the first papergirl in Seattle. When I was 12, I took my way into a job delivering (投递) The Seattle Times. I remember the boss looking this _______ girl over and telling me I had a week to _______ I could do it.

So after school, I would _______ over to the hut down the street, pick up my bundles, lift them onto the back of my _______ and ride my route. Sunday morning papers were too _______ for me to carry. I tried, and it took me three hours to _______ them as I had to keep coming back to reload. So, my mother volunteered to get up at 5:30 am and drive me around. She _______ herself to my employment.

What I learned as a _______ was to find out where each of my customers wanted their papers. I didn’t just throw them on their lawn (草评)._______ they wanted papers on their porch, or mailbox or inside the gate, that was where they got them. When a ________ went out of town, he would tell me and I would make sure that the papers didn’t ________ up to attract thieves. In return, I got big ________.

Somewhere the paperboys are ________ by modern services. We put our orders into online forms that then tell a service that ________ a guy in a truck to throw the papers onto the lawn.

The people that run and own newspapers have the ________ to deliver news to us in a large number of forms, and we should be able to get it any way we want. We should be able to ________ for the form we want it ________, including how it is distributed. I would ________ pay to have a papergirl or paperboy deliver the ________ on the right day in the right way, and I would tip for that privilege.

Let’s bring back the paperboy and with it ________ employment for our children.

【推荐1】The Music Industry — A New Industry

Not long ago, most professional musicians lived in a world far removed from business management, distribution and promotion. But today, social media, laptop production techniques and musical tastes have largely ______ the old relationship between musicians, their audiences and the marketplace.

A leading U.S. conservatory（音乐学院）now teaches students how to ______ successful careers in this new world. Robert Sirota, president of New York’s famous Manhattan School of Music, takes a small break from his work to play one of his own _______. It’s one moment of traditional musical expression in a conservatory that ______ that the music industry is in major change.

“Everything we know about the _______ of music-making, and the industry of music — including recordings, published materials, concert places, the way people enjoy the performance and concerts — have changed rapidly in the last 20 years,” he says, “and it became clear to me and other people of like mind to ______ how to develop young artistic leaders who are truly ________ of making their way in this new world.”

That’s why the Manhattan School of Music created the Center for Music Enterprise, where students can learn about new media, fundraising, ______ their own concert series, producing their own recordings, creating a package for the media and other necessary skills. Sirota, who completed his own conservatory education in the 1970s, _______ today’s Internet world with what used to be.

“The ______ as we understood in the music world, was that there were a small number of major international symphony orchestras, there were some excellent performers, and there was an _______ audience of concertgoers,” he says. “There were in addition, several multi-national record companies. But what has happened is the way people listen to music has changed.” Klorman knows that many young musicians are worried about the information needed to _______ a successful career today. However, he says the current climate rewards personal initiative and imagination as never before. And if we are creative about putting together new _____, we can carve out a whole new market for ourselves.

The ______ at the Center for Music Enterprise are among the most popular at the Manhattan School of Music. In fact, the supply is not ______ to the demand and the program is expanding. This success has in turn inspired other conservatories to teach business skills for tomorrow’s musical careers.

【推荐3】High school students who take music courses score significantly better on math, science and English exams than their non-musical peers, according to a new study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology.

School administrators needing to cut budgets often look first to music courses, because the general belief is that students who devote time to music rather than math, science and English, will_______ in those disciplines.

“Our research proved this belief _________   and found the more the students engage with music, the better they do in those subjects,” said UBC (University of British Columbia) education professor and the study’s principal investigator, Peter Gouzouasis. “The students who learned to play a musical instrument in elementary and_______ playing in high school not only score significantly higher, but were about one academic year ahead of their non-music peers with regard to their English, mathematics and science skills, as measured by their exam grades, _______   their socioeconomic background, race, previous learning in mathematics and English, and gender.”

Gouzouasis and his team _________   data from all students in public schools in British Columbia who finished Grade 12 between 2012 and 2015. The data ___________, made up of more than 112,000 students, included those who completed at least one standardized exam for math, science and English. Students who studied at least one instrumental music course in the regular curriculum counted as students_______   music.

The researchers found the _______ relationships between music education and academic achievement were       more pronounced for those who took instrumental music rather than vocal (发声的) music. The findings suggest skills learned in instrumental music_________ very broadly to the students’ learning in school.

“Learning to play a musical instrument and playing in a band is very________,” said the study’s co-investigator Martin Guhn, an assistant professor in UBC’s school of population and public health. “A student has to learn to read musical notes, develop eye-hand-mind coordination ( 协 调 ), develop keen listening skills, develop________   skills for playing in a band and develop discipline to practice. All those learning experiences, and more, play a role in________ the learner’s cognitive capacities (认知能力), executive functions, and motivation to learn in school.”

The researchers hope that their findings will be brought to the________ of students, parents, teachers and administrative decision-makers in education, as many school districts over the years have emphasized mathematics and literacy________ other   areas   of   learning,   particularly   music.   “However,   the   amusing   aspect   is   that________ education can be the very thing that improves all-around academic achievement,” said Gouzouasis.

【推荐1】When Mrs Green asked us to discover our professions（职业）, the whole class seemed to be greatly surprised. Our professions? We were only 13 and 14 years old! The teacher must be _____．“Yes, you will all be searching for your future ____．Each of you will have to ____ someone in your field and give an oral report.”

Each day in her class, Mrs Green talked about this. Finally, I picked print journalism(新闻业). This ____ I had to go to interview a true newspaper reporter. I was nervous. I sat down in front of him ____ able to speak. He looked at me and said, “Did you bring a pencil or pen?”

I shook my head.

“How about some ____?”

I shook my head again．

Finally, I thought he ____ I was nervous, and I got my first big tip as a ____：“Never, never go anywhere without a pen and paper．You never know what you’ll run into.” After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from_____in class. I got an A on the project．

Years later, I was in college looking around for a new career(职业), but with no success．Then I_____ Mrs Green and my dream at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn’t ____ me. They just reminded(提醒) me how competitive the field was and ____ all my life I had to run away from competition. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my____. It gave me the freedom to go up to total strangers and ask what was _____.

For the past 12 years, I’ve had the most satisfying reporting career, ____ stories from Olympic Games to car accidents and ____ choosing my strongest area. ____ I went to pick up my phone one day, an incredible（令人难以置信的）wave of memories hit me and I realized that ____ Mrs Green I was able to be sitting at that desk.

I get ____ all the time：“How did you pick journalism?”

“Well, you see, there was a teacher…”I just wish I could ____ her．

【推荐2】Steve, a 12-year-old boy, had been failing since first grade. He generally went ___... until he joined Miss White’s class.

“You all did pretty well,” she told the ___as she went over the test results, “ ___one boy, and it breaks my heart to tell you this, but ...” She hesitated, looking at Steve.

“The ___boy in the seventh grade is failing my class.” Steve ___his eyes and carefully examined his fingertips.

After that, Steve refused to do his ___. Miss White was very ___and tried to encourage him to study.

“Give yourself a ___! Don’t give up on your life!” Miss White told him, yet it didn’t ___.

Then one day, she said, “Steve! Please! I care about you!”

___, Steve got it. Someone cared about him.

He spent the whole afternoon thinking about what he should do. Arriving at his house after school, feeling determined, he headed to his bedroom to ___.

Monday morning, Miss White gave a ___on the weekend homework. Steve ___through the test, and was the first to hand in his paper. Miss White looked it over in total ___. The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just ___his first test.

From that moment, nothing was the same for Steve. He discovered that not only could he learn, but he was ___it.

After high school, Steve joined the Navy. During his naval career, he ___many young people who might not have believed in themselves if he hadn’t believed in them first.

Miss White saved one boy who ___changing many lives.

You see, it’s simple, really. A(n) ___can take place within the heart of one boy, all because of one teacher, who ___.

【推荐3】When we saw a programme on TV about a Christmas trip to Lapland, we knew our four children would love it. ____ them on any holiday is costly, but it was a once-in-a-lifetime ____ for our family.

In October, we got the children to write Christmas ____ to Santa. They thought it was a bit soon but were ____ just how many letters Santa receives, so getting in early would make sure that he would read them.

Our departure day arrived in mid-December. There was an explosion of excitement as we parked and ____ our suitcases onto a trolley (手推车) and the children realized we were _going on a plane. The excitement built as we ____.

It was all worth it. The look on their faces as we ____ in Rovaniemi, Finland, was ____. Four days of total magic followed. We took sleigh rides, ____ snow mobiles (雪地摩托) and patted reindeer. On our fourth day we finally ‘found’ Santa, who had a genuine, thick white ____. His home was ____ from floor to ceiling with Christmas parcels, which was every child’s dream.

If that wasn’t ____, he held four hand-written letters that our children immediately ____. Santa said, “So, you must be Thomas, Lucy, Alice and Philip and you’ve come all the way from England just to see me!” He turned to one of the towers of wrapped presents, ____ up and carefully withdrew four parcels. Each of them received a personally addressed ____ signed ‘With love from Father Christmas’ and inside was ____ what they’d asked for in their letters.

Those four days in Lapland will ____ forever the most memorable of our lives. Our four children, now aged between 32 and 38, still talk about that ____ as the most wonderful Christmas ever where childhood magic came to ____.