1 . “WHAT are those?” one of my pupils asked me. I looked over at two large raised beds. A warm autumn sun was falling on the school _______. “Those are potatoes,” I answered.

The pupil in front of me was a girl named Jennifer. In class, she _______ had her head down, focused on the work in front of her. Today, however, her brows were _______ into frown as she looked over at the raised beds.

“But ...” she began. Her voice trailed off as she took a few steps towards the plants. With a _______ feeling, I knew where this conversation was going.

Jennifer started again, “But they’re green. Aren’t potatoes brown?”

I _______. “Well, the bits we eat —the roots— are brown, while what you’re looking at is the part above the soil. That’s what all those leaves are.” I tried my hardest not to sound superior.

Looking _______, Jennifer shook her head and just said, “Hmm.”

I knew that the situation called for drastic (果断的) action. I reached over to the potato plant, _______ it by its green leaves, and pulled. As the plant was raised into the air, several large tubers dropped onto the compost. I held the plant aloft, _______ a few more potatoes that were still attached at the roots.

Jennifer, on the other side, stood with a shocked _______ on her face. It was an expression somewhere between disgust and horror ________ I had just done something morally wrong. Seeing Jennifer take a few steps back, I tried to reassure her, “It’s okay. You have to ________ up the plant to get the potatoes.” I held one out for her to touch.

As Jennifer took the potato in her hand, ________ began to spread across her face. Once ________ from the stems and leaves, the tuber was now something that she recognized. She looked at me and smiled.

For me, ________ is about more than textbooks and exam results. What should matter most in education is inspiring young people to be ________ of the world around them, to actively engage with knowledge, and to ask questions about their environment — even if that question is about something as simple as where a potato comes from.

2 . Math is one of the most boring classes for many students. But recently, at the University of California in the US, a_______class got 400 students interested. There were even another 35 students_______ from behind windows._______ could make a boring subject so interesting? Terence Tao, the 31-year-old university teacher, is known as “the Mozart of Math”. Tao, born in Hong Kong, spent his childhood in Australia. He showed his great_______in math when he was very young. At the age of two, he could read. At nine, he went to college math classes. At twenty, he got his doctor’s degree (博士学位). Last summer, Tao_______a Fields Medal which is known as the “Noble Prize of Math”._______ he was talented, Terence Tao didn’t go to college until he was fourteen. “In my opinion, it’s not_______ to go to college too young.” said Tao. He added, “_______, studying is like building a large tower. It must have a strong base (基础). Then it can be built higher.” People don’t think Tao is _______ the rest of us. He wears a T-shirt and an old pair of sports shoes. He reads Japanese comic books, too. But he________ loves math. “In many ways, my work is my hobby.” he said.

3 . Zhang Shangbao, 62, has worked as a “village doctor” in Hehe Town of Shilou County, North China’s Shanxi Province, since the age of 16. He has _________ more than 1,000 farmers in five villages deep in the mountains, and _________ to work even after losing his right hand in an accident in 1995. The five villages are located in a valley along the Hehe River, where it was difficult to _________ healthcare in the past. Many elderly farmers didn’t even _________ the urban part of Shilou County.

One of Zhang’s biggest _________ is that despite the government building roads _________ the villages with the outside world, he cannot ride a motorcycle to reach the villages because he _________ a hand in the accident. So he has no _________ but to walk to the homes of his patients in order not to _________ the illness.

After graduating from Lyuliang Health School in 1978, Zhang __________ a post in the city, but he chose to __________ to the village to serve the farmers. Whether in the summer heat or winter cold, Zhang has always been on __________.

Zhang Fengjun, Party secretary of Tietou Village, said: “For so many years, whenever the farmers from the five villages have fallen ill, their first thought has been Doctor Zhang, because he is quite __________ every time asking about illness in detail.” He __________ the hearts of the villagers.

Zhang has continued to work and provided treatments whenever a need is __________.

4 . There are many problems between parents and their children. Some parents don’t understand their______, and many of them even argue with each other. If I am a parent, how will I______my child? Well, I think there are many ways.______, I’ll encourage my child to do things he or she likes. The things should be good______him or her. If it is not good for my child, I’ll talk to him or her about the disadvantage of the thing in a______way. Second, I will always take pride in everything good that my child______. For example, if he or she gets good grades, I’ll say something like______, “Well done ! I’m very proud of you.” These words will both make my child and me very______. Third, I will spend______time staying with my child than my parents did with me. I’ll chat and go shopping with my child. I am______these things will make parents and their kids get on well.

5 . A boy, 3 years old, after visiting and playing in his neighbor’s with his grandma, ____ a bottle of yogurt (酸奶) when leaving. Soon later, his grandma found it, and asked him to ____the yogurt. ____, the boy cried and screamed. Then getting ____, the grandma seized him, and said, “This is the act of ____! Now come with me to the police station!” The boy was so ____, struggling to escape bitterly. While his grandma took off the gloves, dragging him on the ground.

The video was posted online and gave ____to a heated discussion. A rather large portion of ____left there were in ____of what the grandma had done, and argued that this lesson would help the boy develop the right ____character.

In the market, it is a common ____when you see a child, between 2 and 5 years old, getting hold of the toys he or she wants or ____the food he or she likes, ignoring whether it has been ____or not.

It never strikes to them that they are stealing something. Nor do they take into consideration the ____of their action or other people’s feelings on their ____. In their sense, all the things they like belong to them.

According to some psychologists, during the period from 2 to 5, the children have no sense of property rights, and are not able to distinguish the ____between what’s yours, what’s theirs, and what’s mine.

Besides, this is also a stage when self-consciousness (自主) starts to ____. Children begin trying to go out of the adults’ watching territory to ____with the outside world ____. In this sense, what is thought of as stealing, in the young children’s eyes, may be just an attempt on ____.

6 . An old man found a sparrow (麻雀) with a broken wing. He brought it home and nursed it back to _______ . Afterwards, though it could fly, the sparrow _______ to leave the house. The old man’s wife asked her husband to get rid of the bird as it was _______ the house. But he wouldn’t listen.

One day while her husband was asleep, the woman _______ the sparrow, took it far away from the house, and let it go, warning it never to _______ . The old man missed his little friend and hoped it would come back, _______ it never did. Then one day, several weeks later, he was walking past an old house when he heard a _______ sound. He looked up and there was the _______ , sitting on the gate. The sparrow gave the old man a gold _______ it had found in the house.

The old man did not much ________ money, but his wife was ________ when she saw the coin, and made up her mind to get more from the sparrow. ________ , early the next morning she slipped (溜走) out of the house and made her ________ to the house. When she saw the sparrow, she ________ it to return.

“If you’ve found ________ , bring it along and I’ll spend it all on you,” she promised.

The sparrow brought her an old ________ with the help of its friends. The basket was ________ but the woman did not wait to find out what was in it. She grabbed it and ran, ________ that the sparrow would follow and go to her house again. The moment she reached home, she ________ the basket, expecting it to be filled with gold and silver. Instead, out ________ many sparrows.

The woman spent the rest of her life trying to drive the sparrows out.

7 . Mother is a bit stooped (驼背的) with age, but her hair is only partially gray and her face has few old age spots. Her small and thin body however, is_________than thirty years ago by a head. And nothing seems to remain of her two hands_________a few blue veins (青筋) and bones.

When I was a child, I_________mother used to wash my hair, my body and my feet with her soft hands. As her hands ran over me _________, what a feeling of _________and warmth came over me!

Once, when I was a schoolboy, my_________ wanted me to play the part of a squirrel (松鼠) in a children’s play, I_________very much about the stage costume that, according to the teacher, had to be provided by_________. Mother set my heart at ease by saying, “Don’t worry! I’ll_________one for you all right...”

So, she bought a piece of gray cotton flannel (法兰绒) and __________cutting it out and sewing. On the early morning of the third day, when I__________, I was__________ to find her still sitting at the sewing machine. She __________ showed me the stage costume for a squirrel with a lovely tail. I __________ it on. It was perfect. At that time, however, little did I know about mother having spent quite a few__________nights working hard for her son’s development.

8 . Martin Henfield talks about some of his experience as a twin: when we were small my mother dressed us _______ the same clothes. That was bad enough and we didn’t like it. But when we went on our first camping trip, it was even _______. We were only ten years old, and while _______ went into their sleeping bags for the _______, we were not happy to snuggle inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.

At school our classmates _______ us Henfield One and Henfield Two, so people _______ even see our difference according to our initials because _______ of us were M. O. It was only when I went to _______ and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity (身份).

Before I went to college, during my secondary school _______, I ________ a job on a building site. My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. One day I asked my boss, “Can I have a week ________?” “Certainly,” he said. “But you won’t have the job when you ________ back.” I didn’t want to ________ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went there in my ________, jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week. ________ of them knew the difference.

9 . My dog Chi Chi always has a smile on her face. However, before my family adopted (收养) her, her life was pretty _______. It’s hard to believe this sweet dog was once left in a dustbin (垃圾箱). Her _______was injured and she was in pain. But when the rescuers got to her, her eyes shone with _______and she was trying to get to them. Her rescuers drove her to the closest hospital to get her _______. The vets there _______her by fitting her with a prosthesis (假肢) and shared her _______on the Internet.

That’s how my parents and I first _______her. For weeks, we _______Chi Chi’s story and discussed adopting her. We _______had three dogs. My mom wanted to know who would ____________her, because it might be a lot of work to take care of a dog that was ____________.

We had a lot of ____________about Chi Chi. Her rescuers sent us photos and videos. After we adopted her, we made her try different prostheses so she could move around more ____________. She’s made a lot of progress with her ____________, and now she can even jump up on the sofa.

Chi Chi has a great attitude ____________she’s been through something hard. She’s always smiling and happy. Chi Chi has a lot to ____________about kindness and about ____________little achievements (like making ____________with walking or jumping). She has taught me to care about the   ____________of others and help them. I’ve also noticed that when people meet Chi Chi, they talk about hard things they’ve faced. I think she shows them it’s possible to ____________anything difficult. She sure encourages me to be the best I can be, like she is every day.

10 . When I was eight years old, my father left us. Mom tried her best to _________ the three of us. Our electricity often got shut off and I’d take myself to a grocery store, staring at all the stuff we couldn’t _________.

At age 15 I got a job at McDonald’s. To keep myself _________, I’d turn each customer moment into an 11-second mini performance. I had a gift for mimicry (模仿). I would _________ the actors I watched on TV and the customers would laugh, which made me feel _________.

Two years later, I left and made my way to Hollywood. I _________ as an assistant for a talent manager. Then I became an agent. But a voice said, “Don’t you think you should be an _________ too?” I’d say it was difficult to _________ a good job for the uncertain rewards of being a performer. _________, after recalling my mom’s toughness, I decided to fulfill my ____________.

But it wasn’t an easy road. Sometimes I got parts but eventually found my scenes were cut. Once, I had only 81 cents when driving to the final screen test for a new show This Is Us. ____________, my phone rang. It was the producer of the show. “You’re our Kate,” he said. It was completely beyond ____________.

This Is Us turns out to be ____________. People recognize me in the street. Some people call me an overnight star. But I don’t think so. Success doesn’t happen by chance. It takes ____________ in the right direction. There are more ____________ during the journey than most people can imagine.