【推荐1】Mrs King is 29. She comes _______ Australia. She is very beautiful. She has long blonde hair, a straight nose and blue eyes. She is thin and of medium height. Mrs. King looks much _______ than other same aged women. Some people think she is only about twenty ________ old.

Mrs King is our English teacher. _______ she only teaches us twice a week, she is very responsible (负责的) to each of us. She is very strict with _______ in class. But after class she is friendly and she _______ about our study and life. She always works very hard.

I remember one winter morning, she didn’t feel well, but she didn’t have a rest but ________ us. We were moved and all listened to her much more ________ than before. Mrs King teaches us very well. She is also _______ very funny teacher. Her classes are always fun and interesting. She often tells us ________ hard. So we can learn English well. All of us love her. We always get good grades.

I think a good teacher must give us great help in our school life.

【推荐2】The ideal (理想的) teacher may be young or old, tall or short, fat or thin. He should _______ his subject very well and like learning something about other subjects. The ideal teacher must be full of strong feelings of wonder or interest. He must _______ teach anything he himself is not _______ in. He should be like a man who can act and should not be afraid to _______   his feelings and tell other people what he likes and what he doesn’t like clearly. He must like his students and respect (尊重) them. _______ he doesn’t respect his students, he cannot _______ respect from them. The ideal teacher should have an _______ of his students and be able to get on well with them. He needs students’ understanding too. The ideal teacher should be kind and _______ and he should give hope to his students to learn knowledge (知识). The ideal teacher should see his students’ _______ . Then he can know how to encourage (鼓励) the growth of each of his students. The ideal teacher is one who grows, learns, and makes himself ________ along with his students.

【推荐3】In 1971, I was teaching elementary school. Freddy was an average（普通的）________, but not an average person. He had the unusual balance of fun and compassion（同情）. He would ________ the loudest over fun and be the saddest over anyone’s misfortune.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special ________, T-shirts with the words “Verbs（动词）Are Your Friends” on them. I had advised the kids that while verbs may seem boring, most of the ________ things they do through their lives will be verbs.

Through the years, I’d run into former students who would ________ information on old classmates. I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same ________ person whom I met forty years ago. Once, while working over night at a store, he let a homeless man ________ in his truck. Another time, he lent a friend money to buy a house.

Just last year, I was teaching when someone knocked at the classroom door. A man handed me an envelope（信封）. I stopped and opened it up. Inside were the “Verbs” shirt and a ________ from Freddy’s mother. “Freddy ________ on Thanksgiving. He wanted you to have this.”

I told the story to the class. ________ Freddy was taken from us, we all took something from Freddy.

【推荐1】Wang Yao is a restaurant owner in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. On a cold morning, she received an online ________ but it took her an hour to wait for the deliveryman (外卖送餐员).

When the deliveryman came, she was a little ________. “It’s too cold outside and my motorbike was broken,” the deliveryman explained. After she heard his words, her anger was gone. She ________ him to sit for a while and offered him a cup of hot water.

At that moment, Wang noticed the deliveryman’s face and hands were dark purple because he was ________ outside for too long. She felt sorry for him. While they were talking, Wang knew that man wanted to buy a ________ for his daughter, but he thought it was a little expensive.

After the deliveryman left, Wang Yao ________ what happened just now on her WeChat Moment (朋友圈) with two photos of the deliveryman. Heartwarming comments (评论) poured in, such as “Life is not easy but none of us ________!”, “Thumbs up (点赞) for hard-working people.” and “Showing understanding to deliverymen. “Some even offered money for a cake. At last, Wang Yao received more than 600 yuan from her friends and customers.

The next day, Wang kept in touch with the deliveryman and invited him to her shop. When they met, she gave him a cake for his daughter’s birthday and the money to show people’s ________ to him. The deliveryman was thankful, he accepted the cake but he ________ the money. He hoped she would use the money to offer some help to people in need. He hoped the world would be ________.

【推荐2】Life will be peaceful if you always do kind things. I teach my daughters to develop a habit of ________ others. The little acts of kindness give you chances to provide service for others. They can make you feel how ________ it is to be kind and helpful.

We live in a rural area (乡村). Most of what we ________ is beautiful nature. One of the exceptions to the beauty is the rubbish that some people throw out of their car windows as they drive along the rural roads. One of the few disadvantages of living there is short of ________ public services, such as rubbish collection, which is common in the city.

A helping behavior that I practice regularly with my daughters is ________ rubbish in our neighborhood. My daughters often have a match to see who can collect the most rubbish. They will often say to me in a(n) ________ voice, “There’s some rubbish, Daddy—stop the car!” And if we have time, we will often get out of our car and pick it up. ________ it may seem strange, we do it. In fact, we enjoy it. We pick up rubbish in parks, on sidewalks, almost anywhere.

One day I saw a stranger picking up rubbish on the road. I stopped. He ________ his head and smiled, “I saw you doing this with your family. It’s a good idea to protect our environment.”

There are many other ways to ________ kindness for others. You may share a dinner with a beggar, visit lonely old people in the nursing home, or help the blind cross the street. You can think of something that can be finished ________ but helpful. It is fun, self-satisfying, and what’s more, it can set a good example. Helping others is helping yourself.

15-year-old Jim was always asking his parents for an iPhone all year. So on Christmas morning he was very ________ to find one under the Christmas tree. His mother ________ a message for him in a card: “Merry Christmas! It’s your dream present, right? Wait! If you want it, you have to follow my ________.”

The first rule on his mother’s list: “I bought this ________ so it is mine. Now, I am lending it to you.” Then it read, “Remember: If you ________ any of the rules, I’ll get it back.”

“If it rings,________ it,” said Rule Three. “It’s a phone. Don’t miss a phone call, ________ when the screen reads ‘Mum’ or ‘Dad’”.

Rule Four: “It’s not polite to use the phone to fool others. You are not a ________ person and do not let the iPhone change that.”

“Try not to take too many photos. There is no________ to record everything. Keep your eyes up. See what’s happening around you. Listen to the birds. Talk to a stranger. The experiences will ________ in your mind.

At last, it read, “Most of these rules listed here are not only for the iPhone, but also for life. I love you. I hope you’ll enjoy your new iPhone.”

【推荐2】My brother and I were driving home together and started talking. Because of this, my brother took a wrong turn.

Unluckily, the wrong turn took us toward a ________ and we had no way of turning back. My brother had to pay to cross. He was clearly ________ by the mistake and the needless waste of $4.

As we drove forward, my brother ________ a beat-up (破旧的) black car stopped on the side of the road. A young guy was standing nearby trying to phone someone. I was busy trying to ________ which way we went next. However, my brother pulled over and asked the driver if he needed any ________. And he did. He had a flat tire (轮胎).

My brother gave him a hand to ________ the flat. He said that this has been a bad week for him. Three ________ ago, he got into a car accident, and now this flat on his way home from work. He called ________ “a breath of fresh air” and kept thanking us because he ________ would have been helpless if we hadn’t come along. After we had finished the job, he ________ again and pulled out $20 to try to give it to us. “No,” I said. “We were ________ supposed to even get on that bridge. ________ now we know why we took a wrong turn. Thank you for turning our mistake into a chance to ________.”

I admired my brother ________ he could turn his anger over the mistake into positive energy. He was able to see a ________ to help others even in an unexpected situation, which can only come from a calm mind and an open heart. That was the bridge we were meant to cross.

【推荐3】It’s very common to meet different people in public places. When I was 12 years old, I got a job in a _______. On my first day at work, I didn’t come home for lunch. When I came home at night, Mum asked, “Where did you _______ your lunch, dear?” I answered, “At my friends’ home. I made some new friends: twin brothers, their mom and dad. They were my _______. I helped them get the right sauce （酱料）for their salad. In return, they invited me _______ lunch.” Mum was happy that I had made new friends but she wanted to know _______ they might be like.

Several days later, I asked my friends to come to the supermarket where I worked _______ my Mum could meet them. Mum was very _______ to find out that the twin brothers were joined at the chest（胸）. She felt very strange because I _______ told her about that.

When Mom asked me about this, I said, “I know that, too. But do you know that their mom has to make all clothes because it’s too _______ to find anything to fit them? They are also good cooks. That day, Joe, the one on the right, made me noodles for lunch.”

When Mom saw the twins, she must have thought how uncommon they looked. But to me, what I __________ was that they had difficulty buying clothes and they were good cooks.