It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more ______ to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It ______ that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.

Some people may think that a person should ________ the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the ________ reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to ________. Even language and math need not be taught in details, either. Here it is _______ that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for ________ a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to _______ his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man have a better life. Educated people are ______ to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but _______ not the most important or the main reason.

【推荐2】The “left-behind” children are children _________ parents are working in cities far away from them. A program called On the Way to School did a research among 2,000 children living in poor areas. The research _________ that 15. 1% of children were unable to see their parents in a whole year, even during the Spring Festival. About 8. 9 million children could talk with their parents _________ the phone only once or twice a year. And about 15. 2 million children could get phone calls from _________ parents every three months.

Yang Hai lives in a village with his grandparents. His parents work in Fuzhou, a city thousands of kilometers _________. His grandparents love him and _________ him well. But he said he still _________ his parents.

Now more people in the country _________ to work in cities and leave their children home. The. government is trying to do _________ to protect the children at home and free their parents from worries about their children. “Children __________ be with their parents very often, so we should give them more care and love,” said one official.

【推荐3】The school is a place where students learn, make friends and grow. But for _________ school can be far from these things. Here is Becky’s story at her middle school.

Through her first year in middle school, she had to do a lot of work because her parents _________ her to be a top student. _________ there was so much pressure (压力) for her to do well in all her exams and keep improving.

_________, when she went into Grade 9, her worries became greater. It was becoming more and more _________ for her to stay focused (专注的). She started seeing the school doctor. However, a big problem _________. She had to leave lessons to see the doctor. Every time she left, her _________ would ask, “Where are you going?” She couldn’t talk to many people about her feelings.

Becky got some advice from an expert. “Deep breaths, Becky,” she thought to herself when she got _______. And also, she learned to give herself a small gift when she made a little progress (进步).

If you’re a teenager who often feels _________ about schoolwork, do something to help yourself. __________ that schoolwork is important, but your mental (精神的) health comes first.