【推荐2】Students learn their lessons in class. In class teachers teach them. Students sit in the classroom listening to the _________. This is a way of _________. Is this the _________ way for students to learn something? Of course not. There is _________ way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For example, if you can’t remember something _________ you are doing your homework, you can look at your book to find the_________ .This is a way to teach yourself. And it is not a(an) ___________thing. We can do this at any place and at any time.

How do you teach yourself? The first thing you must do is _________. Read something you are ___________ in, or you have to read .The second is that you must ask yourself questions. The question is something you don’t understand, __________you want to know more about. You can write down these questions. A____________ student is usually good at asking questions. The __________is to answer the question yourself by thinking hard ,by reading the text of other books, and______________ by asking other people .This is the way of teaching yourself .And you must do this all by yourself. If you keep ____________ like this for a long time, you are__________ to succeed in your study.

【推荐3】It was getting dark. Paul looked out of the window and signed (叹气). Dad said he could come home by 5:30, but it was almost 7:00. Even if Dad came back, it wouldn’t be much fun playing _______ in the dark. Paul walked into his room and threw his baseball into the corner. He tried to do some reading from the very beginning, but couldn’t.

The phone ______ at about 8:00. It was Dad: “Paul, I’m sorry , but I couldn’t play baseball with you tonight. I have to finish my work at the office. Maybe we can play this weekend. Oh no. How about next weekend? ....”

Paul couldn’t understand why Dad was so ______ . He threw himself into the sofa and soon fell asleep. His book was still opened to the ______ page.

The next day at school, Paul didn’t hand in his homework and ______ a test. Mrs. Green, his teacher, asked him to stay after school. “Paul, you didn’t do your homework. You didn’t pass the test and only got a D. This isn’t like you. What’s wrong?”

Paul just sat there ______ . “Paul, if you don’t want to talk, I will. I know that something’s worrying with you, but you have to get it out. You ______ to tell someone.”

As Paul walked home, he thought of what Mrs. Green said. Maybe he didn’t do his homework because he wanted to get his dad’s ______ . He knew Mrs. Green was right. He decided to ______ her advice.

When Paul got home, he ______ his dad. But there was no answer. Then it went to voicemail (语音信箱). Paul began talking: “Dad, I can’t play with you next weekend. I’ve got lots of problems with my ______. Also, I really don’t want to spend another day looking out of the window and waiting. Whenever you _______our plans, Dad, it hurts me. It’s not too late to rebuild our relationship, but we have to start small. Maybe you can help me with my homework sometime. Dad, I love you.”

As Paul ended the call, he felt much ______. He didn’t know whether his dad would be different, but it didn’t matter. He himself ______ . He expressed his feelings to the right person. He had a ______ head as he was doing his homework that evening.

I was leaving my best friends in Germany. The moment I boarded the plane to China would probably haunt me for the rest of my life. A feeling of being anxious _________ through me. They tried to make me _________ that we would meet again. But the _________ is that I was losing them forever.

Thus, when I set foot in my new class on a winter morning, I didn’t feel _________. But my face immediately turned red with 40 pairs of curious eyes on me. A lot of people talked to me on my first day, but I didn’t _________ to look at them in the eye. I felt that _________ I made new friends, I would be betraying(背叛) my old friends in a way.

Things _________ on a sunny afternoon. I was _________ with my Chinese homework and had no choice but to ask my classmates for help. I thought they wouldn’t be nice to me as I had kept myself away from them before. To my _________, however, they were quite friendly. Gradually, I started to make friends with them, and we’ve had countless great   __________ since then.

I still __________ my old friends, but I don’t feel that I’ve left them. True friends are never __________ maybe in distance(距离) but not in heart.

So don’t be afraid of __________ something. Just let it go. During the process, you’ll __________ that you never really say goodbye to it. Instead, it becomes part of you, helping and __________ you in life. Trees lose their leaves, but those leaves fall to the ground and help the trees grow.

I loved everything about school except for one person: Mildred.

Every day, as we walked home after school, she would _____ on the backs of my shoes. Then, when I stopped to move my shoes and get more comfortable, Mildred would slap（轻拍）my back. She _____ me.

Soon, my mother thought something was wrong. I told her the whole _____. My mom told me not to worry and said she had a _____. The next morning, my mom walked _____ the hill with me. Just as we got to the top of the hill, we saw Mildred.

“Hello, Mildred,” my mom said ______. Mildred stopped standing as still as a statue （雕像）. Her hands and face were bright_____. Her oversized coat hung open. There were only two buttons（纽扣）on it. My mother didn't say anything at first. _____, she buttoned up Mildred's coat and turned the collar（衣领）up ____ her neck. “I'm Marion's mother. I need your help, Mildred.” My mother's_____ held Mildred's as she spoke. “Marion doesn't have any brothers or sisters. She needs a_____ friend at school, someone to walk up the hill with her after classes are over. Would you be Marion's friend, Mildred？”

Mildred thought for a while and_____. “Oh, thank you！” my mother said. “I just know you are someone I can _____.” Then she hugged us and left_____ nothing unusual had happened.

Mildred and I walked on to school. As I looked over at her, I saw that Mildred was smiling! I'd never seen her smile before. We walked up the hill each day after school together and pretty soon we became best friends.

I didn't understand my mom's plan at the time. But finally, I came to understand her message: Love never_____.