【推荐1】Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, having enough experience and knowledge, we regard these failures as ________ important part of learning.

My student Jeremy was in Grade Three. His worry about failure kept him away from classroom games which ________ children enjoyed. He seldom answered my questions in class, because he was afraid of ________ mistakes. I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But ________ changed until midterm, when a new teacher Mary came. She was ________ smart and pretty that everyone in our school loved her. Jeremy ________ to her as well.

One day, students were doing math problems at the blackboard. Jeremy copied problems ________. But he missed the fourth problem ________ was quite easy and began to cry.

I didn’t know what to do. Suddenly, a smile appeared on Mary’s face. From the desk she got a box which was ________ pencils. “Look at these, Jeremy.” she continued, “They are ________. See how the erasers are won（磨损的）?That’s because I make mistakes too. ________ I make a mistake, I always erase it and try again. That’s what you must ________ to do, too.”

She tapped him on the shoulder and ________up. “Here,” she said, “I will leave one of these pencils on your desk ________ everybody makes mistakes, even teachers.” Jeremy smiled.

The pencil became Jeremy’s prize. It made him ________ the meaning of making mistakes—it’s all right to make mistakes, as long as you erase them and try.

Food is very important. Everyone needs to ________ well if he or she wants to have a strong body. Our minds also need a kind of food. This kind of food is ________. We begin to get knowledge even ________ we are very young. Small children are ________ in everything around them. They learn ________ while they are watching and listening. When they are getting older, they begin to ________ story books, science books...anything they like. When they find something new, they love to ask questions and ________ to find out answers. What is the best ________ to get knowledge? If we learn by ourselves, we will get ________ knowledge. If we are always getting answers from others and do not ask why, we will ________ learn well. When we study in the right way, we will learn more and understand better.

【推荐3】When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to _______. I bought twenty chickens and asked him to take care of them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would buy the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken _______ with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was left over would be his to keep. Gene was thrifty (节约的), thinking he would make his own money for the first time.

After several weeks' successful work, I began to _______ that egg production was going down. But I said nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn't have enough money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped _______ eggs.

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens. He was shocked. It was like he did not think anyone would ever _______ what he had done. After a long _______, he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them _______ food. I asked him, "Did you fool the chickens? "

I was just astonished at the question in my own _______. I was shocked at the importance of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, but you cannot "fool the chickens," because in the end, you will find out, as the saying goes, "What goes around comes around."