【推荐1】As a volunteer teacher, I traveled a long way to a village school in Longzhou, Guangxi. On my way there, I ________ the school and the children there. “It must be new and big. Flowers are everywhere.” I said to myself. ________ I got so upset when I arrived there. It didn’t look like a school at all! How small! And there were only ________ rooms! One was for Grades 1, 2 and 3; one was for Grades 4, 5 and 6; the last one was for me.

The only comfort (安慰) was that the children welcomed me ________ on my first day. They asked me a lot of questions, and I told them stories about myself and my life in Shanghai. The next day, I gave them a ________ to find out their levels (水平). To my surprise, though the test was very ________, over half of the students failed (不及格). But they all wanted to learn new things. I knew they ________ me.

Now I’m busy preparing lessons for them every night. I can see that they are doing better and better ________ my help. I learn a lot from them, too. I understand ________ lives better now, and we are good friends. I’m very happy, and the experience is ________ very useful for me. I love the small school and the children.

【推荐2】I have a golden dog named Bobby. He is an ________ dog that used to save me.

He is truly the smartest animal and everyone ________ me loves him. I usually take him to a big natural park when I have time. He can ________ all the routes (路线) in the park we’ve ever taken. He can ________ a lot of grass and trees, many slopes and wooden bridges there. When I park my car outside the park, he always jumps out of the car with excitement and goes in front of me, knowing ________ I would go.

One day, I left the car in the same place to take a walk in the park. But this time Bobby seemed very ________. He didn’t want to go further ahead in the park. I tried to call him but he just sat and kept barking at me. So I said, “if you don’t ________, I will keep walking ahead.” I walked about 200 meters away while hearing him still barking. Then he suddenly rushed towards me, bit my trousers and ________ tried to pull my leg. He was persistent (坚持的) not to let me take another step.

At last I had to give up walking ahead, ________ I still didn’t understand his action. “OK, you don’t want me to walk today. Let’s go home then.” He quickly went back towards to the ________, but he stopped every a few meters to see me whether I was following him. Then, we came back home safely.

I could hardly understand what he did in the park ________ the next morning. I was sitting in a coffee shop and reading the newspaper. In the front-page was a big photo of a black bear. The ________ said that it was appearing in the same park where I was walking with Bobby. “There were no incidents (事故) and we had ________ a way to take him out of the park to the far mountains.” A policeman said to the reporter. So now, I knew why Bobby was always ________ to go ahead in the park. I didn’t see or hear any black bear. However, Bobby did very early!

Treat your dogs with ________. Some day they will help you and even save you.