1 . I am a teacher and I love children. I set up a classroom library of books that I bought_______my own money. The library looks beautiful, like a _______. And my students _______ it very much.

I read the children a story. It is about a girl who is _______ poor that she wears the_______ dress to school every day. But she says she has a hundred dress _______. The other girls laugh at her until she goes away. _______, her classmates discover she really has a hundred dresses – a hundred beautiful drawings of dresses. Oh, God, every child_________when I close the book.

_______ a moment everything is quiet. Then a boy________in my ear, “I have to tell the class something.” He shows me that he has half a finger________ .

I turn him towards the class and put my________ on his shoulder. He is a bit ________ . “I …I only have nine and a half fingers.” He ________ his hands. “Please don’t laugh at me about it.” The students become ________. Then one boy calls out,

“Anybody who makes fun of you, I’ll kick them.”

“Me, too,” says another.

When the boy sees the class become united (团结) , he is very happy 60 and smiles at me .

2 . On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have _________ the course earlier than she did. Her _________ came because she was carrying a _________ across the finish line.

As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her _________ when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She _________ to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with _________. She couldn’t. Bailey then _________ to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get _________ attention.

Once there, Lenoue was _________ and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme __________ to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey’s help.

As for Bailey, she is more __________ about why her act is considered a big __________. “She was just crying. I couldn’t __________ her,” Bailey told the reporter. “I feel like I was just doing the right thing.”

Although the two young women were strangers before the __________, they’ve since become friends. Neither won the race, but the __________ of human kindness won the day.

4 . Your math teacher wears clothes made in 1985 and always mispronounces your name. Your English teacher loves to start classes with quick quizzes. It can be hard to think of these givers of grades as real people. But they eat pizza, watch movies and enjoy sports on weekends, just like you. So how can you get along well with your teachers?

You can do a lot of things to develop a good relationship with your teacher. First, do the obvious things: Show up in class on time with all tasks completed. Stay focused, be respectful and ask questions. Second, show an interest in the subject. Obviously, your teachers are really interested in their subjects, or they wouldn’t have decided to teach them! Show the teacher that you care about the subject—even if you’re not a math talent or fluent in French—and send the message that you are a hard-working student.

You can also schedule a private meeting in a teacher’s free time. Use this time to get extra help, ask questions, ask for information about a career (职业) in the subject or talk about your progress in class. You may be surprised to learn that your teacher is a bit more relaxed when only facing you than when teaching in front of the whole class.

What if you just don’t like the teacher? When it comes to working with teachers, one’s characteristics can come into play just as they can in any other relationships. People just naturally get along better with some people than with others; it’s impossible to like everyone all the time. Learning to work with people you don’t like is a good interpersonal (人际的) skill to have in life,   no matter what your goals are.

Teachers are there for more than just homework; they know about more than their subject matters. They can help you learn how to behave as an adult and lifelong learner. Undoubtedly, there will be a few teachers along the way who you’ll always remember—and who might change your life forever.

6 . Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and _________ the state tournament every year. Marcus’s neighbor, Conrad, is also _________ to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎). Although it pains him just to walk, he _________ painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesn’t _________ a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. They’ve always been _________. He sees Conrad in pain and his _________ at not being able to play sports. So, every day alter school, Marcus _________ his classmates to go to Conrad’s for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as _________ as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new _________ to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the __________ of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking __________ steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day，building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg __________. He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer __________.

To Conrad’s delight, he gets a chance to join the cross country team. Conrad doesn’t win, not once, but Marcus is there, __________ for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands __________.

9 . Firefighter Warfield, a mother of two kids, is wired to help others. So when the pregnant 30-year-old was a passenger involved in a multi-car collision, she brushed aside her unborn baby to save a person _______ in their vehicle.

Warfield explained that she initially got out of her car to help to direct _______. But then she saw a car was overturned. “I started to climb in there, but then I was like, ‘What am I doing? I’m nine months pregnant.’”, Warfield _______. “I ended up holding onto the _______ to keep her in place because I wasn’t sure of her _______.”

Shortly after ambulance arrived to _______, Warfield decided to go to hospital to get herself checked out. The _______, unbeknownst to Warfield, had knocked the baby into a sideways position. “I don’t know how I can stay _______ because the pain was so bad.” Warfield said, when asked how she was able to get down on the ground and help.

Warfield _______ a healthy little girl named Charlotte, less than 24 hours after the crash.

Charlotte ________ siblings Ellie and Jameson

“We take pride in our ________ fire personnel and congratulate Warfield and her family and appreciate her service,” Fire Chief Rund wrote. The Fire and Rescue Department praised the “selfless” mother on its Facebook page. “________ any chance she could be injured, Megan immediately exited her vehicle and began providing care to a person in the overturned car,” the ________ reads in part. “After all patients were evaluated, Megan agreed to an evaluation herself.”

The department ________ Warfield as a “true public servant.” Warfield said she had been doing administrative work during her pregnancy and missed her old duties. “I’ve been desiring to get back out,” she admitted. “It’s what I was ________ to do.”

10 . Hurricane season is here. Fiona ruined Puerto Rico, and less than two weeks later, Ian struck the west coast of Florida and its remnants(残余部分) moved up and hit the Eastern Seaboard.

Extreme weather events like Ian and Fiona have become more intense because of climate change. That reality has implications for those of us in health care. We have a duty to protect and advance the health of our patients.

We typically think of health as something doctors monitor, offering treatment such as prescription medications as needed. But in reality, only about 20% of a person's health is attributable to the medical care they receive. Social determinants such as people's neighborhood and socioeconomic status are actually responsible for 40% of a person's health outcomes. It's a sad truth that a ZIP code can be more predictive of a person's health than his or her genetic code.

Consider how extreme weather events such as this summer's heat waves affected communities unequally. Poor urban neighborhoods, with sparse tree cover but plenty of concrete and asphalt, absorb and retain the heat of the sun's rays, while leafy, shaded countrysides just a few miles away stay much cooler. A University of California–San Diego study that measured land surface temperatures in over 1,000 counties across the United States found that neighborhoods with the lowest average education and income levels generally recorded higher temperatures.

Extreme weather events such as flood can threaten people's physical and mental health long after it recedes. Almost 1 in 3 people in the flooded area were estimated to have suffered from certain post-traumatic stress disorder. Therefore, physicians in regions at increased risk of natural disasters may need to be ready to deliver more mental health care. For example, doctors in drought-stricken areas may need to make water safety a part of their conversations with patients, because groundwater sources can become unsafe to drink without sufficient rainfall.

Climate change has posed an immediate and dire health threat. Now is the time for health care providers to take collective action to adapt to this unfortunate reality.