4 . I'm entering my eighth year teaching preschool. I've never got tired of it, because______ year is ever the same. Sometimes our school brings new staff and new students' families who are ______ with the purposeful aesthetic（美学）our school seeks for. So I am eager to show them around my classroom with the of ______ to help them sense our school philosophy ——supporting creativity, learning and ______ for children. Their nodding and smile make me feel it will be another ______ new school year.

All of the walls in my classroom start out very ______They are plain in color. All I will do is give students the great beauty in the physical environment with my philosophy. First, I arrange all the children’ s first names in a circle on the wall, ______ traditional number lines or alphabet order, which may make students feel discriminated. I like it when children see their names and have a sense of ______ to our class community. ______ I have a sign on our paper towel holder that is a ______ of how many paper towels we use, because we are showing our ______ to the Earth and will be starting with what we can do for the Earth within our classroom. I also have a small sign about our voice scale, which gives a ______ to distinguish indoor and outdoor voice level, and then I use the language all the time ______,“Shh — Let's bring our voices down to a Number 2 or 3. ”For the ______ part, the walls belong to the children, and the children will ______ the lively color and decorations in the room through their paintings to relieve their tension between lessons. The walls I place value on give an excellent way to show that students' well-being and the talent of art are valued.

Aesthetics of the walls affect their emotional responses. I am proud I can provide such a class community where my students feel happy, motivated and respected.

6 . I often imagined discussing school choices with my son. However, I didn’t expect to be having such a ________ with him at his thirteen years of age.

Earlier this year, he ________ his wish to go to one of the biggest public ________ in our small city, because several of his long time friends were ________ going.

I fought back the thought to ________ my eyes. I told him that if he went to this school, he would be going from a class in the ________ of 18 to being one of several hundred in the freshman class. He wouldn’t be able to receive the ________ attention of his teachers any more. He wouldn’t be happy at all. However, he didn’t ________ his mind. So I made a deal with him. He would need to ________ a list of reasons and then we would sit down and have a talk.

Later that night, as ________, we had a discussion. He gave his argument with a list of ________ reasons. First, he explained that he would have more ________ in courses and after-school activities. ________,attending this school would better prepare him for college because he would ________ what it was like on a big campus.

He added that he would learn to ________ his time. He also promised that he would make use of the drop-in tutoring (无需预约的导师) the school ________ if he ran into trouble.

I sat back and listened, ________ by the thought and research he had prepared. ________, I could have put my foot down and said “no”, or “just wait another year”, but I would have been doing that for me, not for him.

At last, we let our son have the ________ say on choosing a high school. I knew if my kid put the same ________ as he did in persuading us, he would be perfectly fine in high school.

8 . Some children are natural-born bosses. They have a strong need to make _________ , manage their environment, and lead rather than _________ . Stephen Jackson, a Year One student, “operates under the theory of what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine,” says his mother. “The other day I bought two new Star Wars Lightsabers(光剑). Later, I saw Stephen with the two _________ ones while his brother was using the beat-up ones.”

“ _________ the extended family, and you’ll probably find a bossy grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin in every _________ . It’s an inheritable trait,” says Russell Barkley, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. Other children who may not be particularly bossy can gradually gain dominance _________ they sense their parents are weak, hesitant, or in disagreement with each other.

Whether it’s inborn nature or developed _________ at work, too much control in the hands of the young isn’t _________ for children or the family. Fear is at the root of a lot of bossy behavior, says family psychologist John Taylor. Children, he says in his book From Defiance to Cooperation, “have secret feelings of weakness” and “a desire to feel safe.” It’s the parents’ role to provide that _________ .

When a “bossy child” doesn’t learn limits at home, he is to face lots of troubles __________ the family. The overly willful and unbending child may have trouble __________ teachers and coaches, for example, or trouble keeping friends. It can be pretty __________ as the top dog if no one likes your bossy ways.

“I see more and more parents giving up their __________ ,” says Barkley, who has studied bossy behavior for more than 30 years. “They bend too far because they don’t want to be as __________ as their own parents were. But they also feel less __________ about their parenting skills. Their kids, in turn, feel more anxious.

9 . When I first arrived in Santiago, Chile, and took a walk around the city center, one of the first things I noticed was how many street dogs there were.

On every corner there was a sleeping _______. At every traffic light there was a dog _______ to cross. By every shop there was a dog waiting for _______. At first I was _______ as I thought they might be _______ or unfriendly. However, I have been here for more than a year now and every street dog I have seen has been quiet and _______.

The dogs are _______ and welcomed here in Chile. They are _______ given food and water by the public. Some people even _______ jackets for the dogs or put out beds for them to sleep in.

There are an estimated 2.5 million street dogs in Chile and the canine (犬的) population is ________. Some people believe that the ________ is getting out of control and that it is ________ to have so many dogs on the streets. The dogs can sometimes cause ________ such as car accidents if they run into the road. Many Chileans think that all the street dogs should be sterilized (使绝育) so that they cannot ________. Others think that the street dog population should be culled (i.e. reducing the population by killing them).

The future of street dogs is ________, but for now it looks like they are here to stay, with their population expanding year by year.

10 . A 9-year-old boy is called a hero after he rescued his dad when a car fell on him. Brave J.T. Parker’s ________ thinking saved his father’s life.

________ dad Stephen Parker said that last July, he and his sons J.T., 9 and Mason, 17, were in the backyard working in a Toyota car when the ________ happened.

“ We were ________ the engines out of the car and, after we got it jacked (用千斤顶顶起) up, I climbed under there to take the parts off,” he said. “The one part came off pretty ________ but the other side was not coming off.”

At that moment, Mason had gone inside the house ________ he cut himself, but the dad ________ working. Suddenly, the car fell on top of him.

He said he _______ at J.T. to jack the car up but he didn’t think his young son would ________ it.

“ I couldn’t move at all,” Parker said. “I was totally ________ , and then I passed out. It was all in his hands.”

J.T., who weighs about 50 pounds, said he, too, didn’t think he would be able to   ________ the car off his father, but he started jumping up and down on the jack right away.

It took him   ________, but J.T. was able to save his father   ________. He then ran to get his brother out of the house. They called the   ________ immediately.

Parker was then sent to the nearest hospital with 13 broken ribs (肋骨). He was   ________ two months later thanks to the timely rescue from his young hero.