2 . A few years back a group of young teachers from another school was spending a day in my class. They were energetic, bright and ________. However, I noticed a key mistake in their ________ to teaching. Their desire to help kids was so ________ that they never allowed the students to get the wrong answer or take a ________.

We were building ________ that week. My students were working in groups of four. Each group was ________ a small Viking model rocket, instructions, and the materials with which to put it ________. The challenge for each team was to precisely measure, ________, and assemble (组装) their project. One group was trying hard but making mistakes in the placement of missile (导弹) sections. Several of the teachers would ________ to the kids to show them how to build the rocket ________. On a number of ________ I had to politely but firmly ask them to leave the kids alone.

It’s important to remember that we teachers individually ________ the word failure. In my class, a rocket that doesn’t fly is not a failure. Failure ________ only when students stop trying to solve a problem. It may be solved in five minutes, or it may take two months, ________ was the case where my students built an huge roller coaster (过山车) and could not create a loop with enough centripetal force (向心力) to allow the cars to move ________ the track safely. ________, those two months of failed trials were some of the most ________ and exciting times the kids had in science that year. And when the roller coaster finally ________, the kids could say they did it themselves. They ________ the physics of the roller coaster. I did the best teaching during those two months when I decided to ________ and leave the kids alone.

3 . Today’s journalists face modern challenges. Online media platforms are springing up. And the lowly newspaper and its reporters are fighting money, tech, and distrust issues. Journalism students and teachers must emphasize new skills to keep their profession alive.

A trustworthy press, which is essential to a nation, helps inform people. Yet this useful establishment is growing increasingly unpopular. According to the University of North Carolina (UNC), newsroom jobs across the country are fewer than half what they were 10 years ago. And on many college campuses, the news about the situation is hopeless too.

Take the Syracuse, a city in central New York, student-run newspaper The Daily Orange: It isn’t daily anymore. The paper prints just three times each week. Next year, The Diamondback of the University of Maryland will be online only. Half the newspapers that still exist on paper say they don’t print as many copies.

Considering the problems in journalism, it’s surprising that the enrollment (注册人数) in college journalism programs is up. But journalism educators wonder, “Are we preparing young people for a dying industry?” Years ago, journalism graduates took low-level reporter jobs at newspapers or television stations. That still happens. But today’s jobs more often involve digital editing, social media production, and video streaming. Some universities are taking steps. The University of Florida offers a sports media program. Several schools highlight statistics-driven data journalism.

The news isn’t all bad. Journalism professor Kathleen Culver says, “When I look at 18-and 20-year-olds in journalism and see what they want to do, I’m optimistic.” Maddy Arrowood is the student editor of The Daily Tar Heel. She says her experience makes her more interested in a journalism career, not less. Her optimism “comes from knowing that people still need news. They still need information.”

4 . Have you ever lined up? How do you feel? Most of us line up a large number of times during our lives. Waiting lines are such a thorn in our sides at popular destinations — Disney World, the Empire State Building — that many of us are willing to pay to avoid lines.

Culture has much to do with how we handle waiting lines. The British are the best people in the world at waiting in lines. I’ve never seen a people less concerned with lines than the British.

If you’ve been to Wimbledon you know what I mean. There are no online ticket sales for this fortnight of tennis. You queue up for hours, often a half day or more with 8,0000 others on a golf course near the stadium, suffering whatever rain, wind or sun.

It is an unwritten but ever present rule at Wimbledon that you never talk about or even admit that the queue exists. You’ll hear and participate in every conversation imaginable while waiting. It’s not really possible to jump or break-in a queue at Wimbledon because of the stewards and the time-dated stamps they hand out, and it’s considered bad behavior anywhere by the British.

Some places such as restaurants in Canada and in the States are getting wise. The host or hostess greets you, and says politely. “Sorry, but it will be about 45 minutes!” Almost always you’ll be seated in just 20 to 30 minutes. It’s called managing expectations. But, now you’re very happy as if you had something to do with getting a table earlier.

Finally, technology promises to save some queuing time. In the years ahead, stores will adopt Apple’s methods, with every salesperson capable of taking payments. Then the lines will disappear.

With age, perhaps, comes wisdom. I do whatever I can to avoid activities where queues are quite common. But you can’t always avoid lines, so I make the best of them. I usually start conversations with total strangers in a queue... at the very least you open yourself up to an opportunity for an engaging conversation. Queues, like life, have a lot to do with attitudes.

5 . If you hear about Matt Cox’s response to his daughter, who was suspended (暂停) from her school bus for bullying (欺凌), you are likely to have an opinion about his actions.

Matt Cox _________ his ten-year-old daughter Kirsten, who had _________ bullied her classmates on the bus, to _________ five miles to school in 2℃ weather. He drove behind her, filmed her walk, and _________ the video to social media.

Matt who considered his _________ a “life lesson” said, “She has been kicked out of the school bus for the second time this school year, because she _________ another student from getting off the bus.”

“Last Friday, when my daughter brought home her _________ for her bus suspension, she said, ‘Daddy, you are going to have to take me to school next week’. As you see, this morning she is _________ a lesson,” said Matt.

In order to teach his daughter to be _________ for her behavior and be aware of her __________ for bullying her classmates, Matt __________ her transportation to school, ________, he made her walk. Many parents __________ his actions, celebrating his “tough love”, while experts disapproved of his __________ response, insisting that by publicly __________ his daughter, he did more harm than good.

However, Matt didn’t __________ their judgments. “I hope the video can lead parents to hold their children responsible for their own __________. I am just a father trying to teach my daughter that life has standards for our actions and we have to pay for the __________ of breaking them. It’s important to be kind and __________ to others, because words and actions have strong effects on others, and some can be very __________ and destructive.

The Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院) fire

It feels as though the very heart of France and the soul of Europe have been broken. The fire of Notre Dame in Paris     1     Monday evening was an act of blind and terrible destruction,     2     (cause) great emotional pains to us all. We all share France’s terrible loss.

The fire struck     3     (quick) and uncontrollably. It gathered force with huge power. Much of the roof and the central building caught fire. After an hour or so, the Paris firefighters were able     4     (get) part of the fire under some degree of control and to protect other     5     (part) of the building that may survive. As night     6     (fall), the great west towers still stood against the sky, proud but hurt.

The Notre Dame is the symbol of the French capital and of France itself. It     7     (be) in its place since the 12th century. It is world famous not simply as a Parisian building but through the     8     (write) of Victor Hugo,     9     made the building itself come alive in his novel Hunchback of Notre Dame.

We believe the Dame will rise again in time. This terrible fire is not an event that should     10     (ignore) or quickly forgotten. We stand with France in its hour of heartbreak. We will never, ever, turn away.