1 . Hannahs daughter Isla has spent half her life home. Lockdown began when she was seven months old. Parks were a ______: the only places where Hannah could ______ her daughter there was more in the world than their flat. Lockdown ______ Hannah, an opera singer, and her husband, a director, months of work. They ______ every other day they would go out to a park, finding some ______ in the world. Hannah read maps for new places of green to ______. Every time they would find something new. Hannah says, “When we ______ this time, we’ll remember it as the year we three sat ______ on a million pretty places of grass.”

About five months later, lockdown ended. For months parks were almost ______. The only sounds were the footsteps of lone figures and the sound ______ from their headphones. Then came chats as people started ______ in twos. Summer arrived with speakers sending out loud music. ______, cheers, different kinds of instruments and shouts ______ the “noise” as impromptu (即兴的) concerts returned. Parks are really ______ to show people’s reactions to lockdown. Some people may feel depressed, but ______ people like Hannah and her family can be always seen everywhere.

2 . Mr. Thompson was my biology teacher in Grade 5. On the first day of school, he introduced us to an animal called the Rabbitervore, which _______ during the Ice Age. While he described it, he _______ around a set of skeleton(骨架). We listened carefully, took notes and later had a _______.

When I had my paper back, I was greatly _______. None of my answers was right! There must have been some _______. I did nothing wrong! I wrote down _______what Mr. Thompson said. Then I realized that _______ in my class failed the test. What happened? The answer was simple. Mr. Thompson said he_______ the whole story about the Rabbitervore. There had never been such an animal! So, our notes were tally _______. How could we expect grades for wrong answers? We were very ________. What kind of test was it? And what kind of teacher was he?

Later, Mr. Thompson said we had tons of chances to find out the truth: the skeleton was,________, a rabbit’s. But he was passing it around, he kept telling us that all this kind of animals died in the Ice Age, nothing of which________.But he told us about its amazing speed, its soft fur and other________which were impossible to know. He even gave us a(n) ________ of the animal beginning with “Rabbit”, but we still didn't question. The ________we got would be recorded in the grade book, he said. And they were.

Mr. Thompson said he hoped this experience could teach us an unforgettable lesson-teachers are not ________right. Actually, no one is. He warned us not to let our ________ fall asleep and encouraged us to speak up bravely ________ we thought he was wrong.

Although I haven’t ________ any great scientific achievements, I find something so important through Mr. Thompson’s class: the courage to look people directly ________ the eye and point out their wrongs. He also showed us that it is fun to do so.