1 . Miss Chan, our class teacher, is my favorite teacher. We are going to_______ this school and I will miss her very much.

Miss Chan is very patient. Whenever we_______ questions in class, she explains to us very carefully. She is also_______ because she cares much about us. She often says to us. “Tell me immediately if you feel unhappy. Share your_______with me and do not just try to solve it by yourself.”

Miss Clran is very generous(慷慨的). One day, she gave each of us a book, Three Days to See, and told _______ we should read more. She once chose our monitor as the most helpful student, and gave him a set of stationery(文具) as a _______. When she is free, she _______ helps us with our studies and we’ve made great progress.

Not only do all of us like Miss Chan, but Miss Chan also likes my class because she thinks all of us are _______. She always says she thinks herself very _______ to be the teacher of my class. In fact, Miss Chan is thoughtful体贴的) teacher I have ever met. She always thinks about our feelings. I hope I will go to a high school with________ as good as Miss Chan.

2 . The Shirt of a Happy Man

Once upon a time, in a rich and beautiful country, there lived an unhappy king. He slept _________ and didn’t feel like eating. The queen and his people worried about him very much. One day, a doctor was called in to examine the king. But he couldn’t find _________ with his body. It was all in his mind. He said the king needed the shirt of a happy person to wear. Then the prime minister, the king’s banker and the palace singer were called to the palace. But they all had _________ worries. They weren’t happy, either. The prime minister thought many people were trying to   _________, then he would lose his power. The banker was afraid _________ his money. The singer said he couldn’t get freedom because he always worried about being followed by _________._______, the king’s top general was told to go out and find a happy man in three days’ time.

Two days passed, the general still couldn’t find a happy man. Everyone had their own problems. Just as he was about to give up, he saw a poor man _________ happily on the street. The general didn’t understand why the poor man was so happy, though he seemed to have _________power, money or fame. So he went up to the poor man and asked him about the reason. The poor man said he was happy because he had everything he wanted, and he didn’t want to have what he couldn’t have. Hearing this, the general was excited. The poor man was the Happy Man. So he asked the poor man to give his shirt   ________ the king. “Shirt?” said the poor man in surprise, “I don’t own any shirts!”

3 . Do you like playing football? It is so popular among boys nowadays. Johnny, a twelve-year-old boy____likes it very much. He used to____it in his room. His parents were very angry and told him several____ not to play football at home because he could break ____, but he never listened.

Last Sunday, his ____went out for a walk and Johnny couldn’t help playing football again. He was en-joying his game in the living room____ his parents came in and saw him Oh, my God, Johnny, you know that playing with your ball at home is not____. We are very ____ about you and are going to give your ball to another kid. You should obey the rules ____ you are alone at home. Johnny’s father said Johnny felt very sad. He ____ that it was his mistake. He decided to obey the rules later, not only at home, but also at school.

4 . Three weeks ago, Mr. Smith went to the bank to exchange money. When he _______ home, he received a message from the employee (员工) of the bank who had _______ him. “Mr. Smith, I’m sorry. We made a _______. You owe (欠) us ten cents. Please come to our bank and pay back the money.” Mr. Smith thought it was a joke and decided to _______ the message.

The next day he received another _______ with the same request. He got angry and called the bank _______. He spoke to the employee and told her that even the bank wouldn’t think it proper to spend so much valuable _______ getting ten cents back. The employee couldn’t believe that Mr. Smith wouldn’t agree to return _______ that was not his. After much discussion and with no agreement reached, Mr Smith decided it was _______ to put the whole thing behind him.

Last week, Mr. Smith ________ the bank again. The same employee ________ him immediately. “Mr. Smith,” she said, “do you still remember that you owed us ten cents? Would you mind settling the debt (债)?” Unable to ________ it, Mr. Smith gave the employee a dollar, asking her to keep the change.

Mr. Smith then left the ________. As he crossed the street, the employee ________ him. In her hands were a receipt (收据) for ten cents and 90 cents ________.

5 . Our neighbors had a loud party last night. We weren’t invited but this was one of those celebrations that I didn’t ________ . They are a bunch of young, single guys and I would have felt out of place.

What ________ me was the way they behaved. One of the young men came over earlier in the day to “warn” us of the upcoming event and said it would be over at about 11 p.m. That was the first step. Even more ________ was what they did next. “Here’s my cell number,” offered our neighbor ________. “Text me if it’s too noisy. ” That was a level of ________ I had never experienced in all my years of being a neighbor!

And it really worked in their favor. My husband and I were so ________ that even when the event went past the ________ end time, even when the music reached high decibels(分贝)，and even when we couldn’t get through to the cell number, we felt no ________. We knew they would stop and ________ to it eventually.

It takes such little effort to make people feel that they ________ and get people on your side. Everyone needs to ________ every now and then, especially in these uniquely tough times. But people who do it without ________ others are few and far between. I hadn't fully ________ my neighbors until this week. But now I see them in a new light and with greater ________. They didn't just bring the noise to the neighborhood; they showed us a good manner of ________ in life.

6 . A little boy named Roy liked to pick flowers. He just couldn’t help doing it wherever he saw flowers. The villagers found that their flowers had been   _______   picked or damaged. Of course, they were _______ and reported it to his parents every time, who did nothing but to say, “Well, boys will be _______ !” The father assured (向……保证) villagers that he would eventually _______ ! As a grown man, he would never touch them.

The villagers decided to speak with the boy. They went into _______ about how much care and _______ they put into their gardens. The boy listened with lowered head and what they considered to have been an expression of _______ . He seemed genuinely sorry and _______ to stop doing that. But after just a few days, when all had finally seemed _______ , he started doing it again. When asked why, he said that he was just a boy acting like a boy.

Then one day, Roy’s parents found the boy was nearly drowned to death and asked the ________ what happened. They responded that he had been ________ to the bogs (藻泽地) to pick the wild flowers there, since there were no longer any flowers ________ in the village he could pick. They claimed to have warned him of the ________ . But he insisted on (坚持) going anyway.

“Why didn’t you tell us right away?” his parents asked with ________. “Well, we ________ that you would just tell us that boys will be boys as you did before!” they all responded.

7 . A mobile phone is very useful. It's one of the greatest ______ in the world. And many students have great fun playing with it. But it does harm to ______ health a lot.

If you have a mobile phone, it is necessary to know about the ______ of using it and learn how to enjoy your mobile phone safely. Sending messages can be a wonderful way to connect with your friends. But you ______ receive some cheating (欺骗) messages. ______，you may get a message saying that you have won a big prize. Don't believe it.

Some students like listening to music on the mobile phone ______ walking. It's very ______ because there are so many cars and buses on the road. Remember not to ______ on the mobile phone too often or too long. Your parents will be angry if you spend too much time on it. Last, ______ your mobile phone when you sleep. The noise of rubbish messages may ______ you up. What's more, the radiation (辐射) of the mobile phone is harmful to your health.

8 . Marion Sheppard had always been a keen dancer. However, she found her vision began to ________ in her 40s and the doctor said it would only get worse. She cried and felt ________, locking herself in her apartment.

Then after several months, Sheppard ________ herself to step out to attend a social event for people with visual impairments (损伤). Terror ________ her when she found people there barely moved. They all just sat there, ________ and physically withdrawn. Deep down, she was ________: “That is not the way I want to live”. Her immediate ________ was that she must do something to change that.

Sheppard asked at a Manhattan community center run by Visions, an organization for the visually impaired, if she could teach line dancing there, but was ________. They said it would be too ________ for the students. However, she insisted and ________ convinced the directors at Visions to let her teach line dancing on a volunteer basis. Her classes ________ to be very popular, attracting more students than expected. But what she ________ was more than dance steps. With constant encouragement, she also helped them ________ confidence and independence despite their disability. Just as Sheppard says, “We may be blind, but we’re doing our thing.”

Sheppard’s ________ for maintaining both physical and spiritual health, no matter what difficulty life may throw at you, is ________: “Just keep it moving unless life ceases.”

9 . My son was one of the students who served as a volunteer in different services while in a high school. Nowadays it is common for high schools to have a volunteer service hour minimum as a part of their graduation________. One day, I asked him why he worked long hours voluntarily every week. He gave me a reply________his years. He said “Mom, you should not do community service just because it was________and you just need to turn it in. You should do it because of the effect it has.” In many ways his opinion is________reasonable, and though the service hour requirement actually does get students to participate in volunteer work in their communities, does it________them to volunteer in the future?

In some cases, no. A study found that when 8th graders in some schools were asked to accumulate (积累)________volunteer hours, those same students were no longer doing any service by their senior year of high school. It________that mandatory (强制的) volunteer hours led to a “potential________ in long-term volunteering.” However, other researchers discovered that young people were more likely to________and attend civic (公民的) life in other ways as a result of their________to community service in high school.

If teens________the significance of doing volunteer work and do it with a bit of enthusiasm, serving others in their communities will bring in a lot of unexpected________. My son’s exposure to a variety of non-profits during his high school years led him to________a service scholarship for college, where he is now required to complete seventy five hours per semester. But to him, this is________a requirement; actually he has benefited a lot more than that.________is what he has always wanted to do.

10 . Colette Maze, who turned 107 in June, has been playing the piano for over a century. Her ________ for the piano developed a sense of wonder in life each day, making her a ________ of inspiration to all.

Maze started playing the piano at the age of five and has never ________. As a young student, she was taught a ________ technique by the legendary piano master Alfred Cortot, which ________ on relaxing the arms and hands when playing. To this day, the soft, calm, and gentle ________ Maze touches the piano is still unique and fascinating. It was her love of piano that ________ her to take her future into her own hands. ________ the social conventions of the times, Maze decided to pursue music as a ________ rather than a hobby.

When she was in her 80s, her son Fabrice ________ it was time to preserve his mother’s talent in a professional recording. Maze ________ about the idea, but soon after agreed. She now has six albums, with her sixth recently ________ in April, 2021.

Maze practices four hours a day and her fingers never tire. ________ the physical aspect, Maze feels that playing piano also keeps her mind and emotions ________. Every day she plays, she ________ touches the keys, enjoying life with the love and tenderness of her music.