1 . Karie double-checked the words on her spelling test. If she got 100 percent today, she’d win her class’s First-Quarter Spelling Challenge.

Three more words to go. N-i-c-e-l-y, Q-u-i-c-k-l-y, H-o-n-e-s-t-y. Wait! She’d spelled honesty, not honestly! She erased the t-y and wrote l-y before handing in her paper.

After recess, Karie hurried into the classroom. She fidgeted (坐立不安) in her seat. Ms. McCormack walked to the front and cleared her throat. “Congratulations. Karie! You did it!” The whole class _________ .

Ms. McCormack presented Karie with her prize—a _________ . Karie grinned as she read the _________: to Karie for her perfect first-quarter score in spelling.

Karie _________ the front door after school. Karie scooped up (抱起) her cat. “Can you spell nicely, Casper? And quickly and honestly, and …” Karie’s stomach tumbled to the floor. Honestly? H-O-N-E-S-L-Y! It suddenly struck her that she had _________ the word.

Karie went to her room and _________ on how she could tell the class she hadn’t earned the prize after all? She couldn’t sleep but kept tossing and turning in bed all night.

Ms. McCormack was unlocking the classroom door when Karie got to school the next morning. “You are a(n) _________ bird.” Ms. McCormack said. Karie’s hands trembled. She gave her teacher the spelling paper and the dictionary. “I can’t keep this. I misspelled honestly and you didn’t _________ it. ” “Come and sit down, Karie.” For a moment, Ms. McCormack stood quietly reading the words on the dictionary. Then she picked up her pen. She crossed out the word perfect and wrote honest before handing the dictionary back to Karie. Karie’s jaw dropped. “I get to keep this. _________?” “For honestly, no.” Ms. McCormack smiled. “But for __________, yes.”

4 . A nine-year-old kid is sitting at his desk. Suddenly, there is a puddle (小水洼)between his feet and the front of his pants are _________.

He thinks his heart is going to _________ because he cannot possibly_________ how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out, he will never hear the _________ of it.

When the girls_________ it, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives. The boy puts his head down and _________, “Dear God, this is a(n) _________! I need help now! Five minutes from now, I'm dead meat."

_________, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish _________ that is filled with water. She trips (绊倒)in front of the desk and unexplainably pours the water on the boy's __________. The boy pretends to be __________, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!”

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of __________.All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. It's __________. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else --Susie. She tries to __________ but they tell her to get out. “You've done enough, you klutz (笨手笨脚的人)!”

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that __________ didn't you?”

Susie whispers back, “I wet my pants once too.”

6 . Ralphie was getting bored in his geography class. Mr. Hudson   _______map of Europe up on the whiteboard, and asked someone to switch off the lights so they could see it   _______. Ralphie popped a paper spitball into a straw and blew it   _______the light switch. It missed, and   _______in Mr. Hudson’s hair instead.

“Detention(留堂), Ralphie.” said Hudson. “I was only trying to   _______the lights!” Ralphie protested. But he heard “See you after school. Don’t be late.”

Math class was   _______. Ralphie was pretty good at math, so when Mrs. Addison   _______student to solve a problem at the blackboard, Ralphie didn’t   _______. He jumped out of his seat and announced in a loud voice, “I volunteer as Tribute!” His friends burst out laughing. Mrs. Addison looked at him sternly(严厉地)over the tops of her   _______.

“Silence! Young man.”

“It’s from ‘The Hunger Games ...’” he tried to   ________.

“That’s quite enough! Detention. Ralphie. After school. Don’t be late.”

When the bell rang. Ralphie went to see Mr. Hudson first. He was told to sit down. Then he   ________one hand and asked to go to the   ________. Mr. Hudson nodded.

________in the hallway, Ralphie raced over to Mrs. Addison’s room. He took a seat. Again, he lifted his hand and asked to use the washroom. Mrs. Addison   ________, and Ralphie   ________back to Mr. Hudson’s room. On the way, he________he did actually need to use the washroom. He went inside, locking the door behind him.

After washing his hands, he found the door lock was stuck. He twisted and shook it. He even threw his body against it like he saw people   ________doors in movies. No luck. ________, Ralphie looked around the room for ideas. He took a plunger(疏通管道用的搋子) from the corner to prop the window open. He climbed up on the   ________and pulled himself through the washroom window.

Hurriedly he went back to his detentions. ________, no teachers were in.

7 . Kurt Campbell believes in second chances—and a certain grade school teacher who made all the difference. For him, the hurt and the _______ came in fourth grade.

School was a complete _______ for him. Learning was hard. His teachers and parents _______ everything but it just wasn't clicking. By the end of his fourth grade year, he couldn't spell or read.

The Campbells _______ from their home in Washington to the town of Edmonds. Kurt's parents enrolled him in a new school, where he would _______ fourth grade.

He wasn't _______ about going to a new school, but he was terribly upset about taking fourth grade over. It was a _______ of not being intelligent. He felt very insecure and afraid. _______, he wasn't at his old school, so none of the kids would know he had been held back.

His new teacher, Mrs. Hornall, knew. She had read Kurt's _______. She spent concentrated individual time with him. Mrs. Hornall helped him see how words ________ into sentences and how sentences became paragraphs and stories ________ new meaning.

Over the next few weeks and months, things began to ________. Kurt could read a Hardy Boys book. When he got to the end, he ran down the hall, ________ to his mom and dad, “I did it! I did it!”

“Mrs. Hornall made the ________. She was one of those amazing teachers who took the line, gave me personalized ________ and never once made me feel different from my other classmates.” said Kurt.

8 . Thanksgiving Day was near. One day, the first-grade teacher, Miss White, let her students draw a picture of something for which they were thankful.

Most students would ______ the holiday with turkey and other traditional foods of the season. These, the teacher ______, would be the subjects of most of her students’ art. Miss White was ______. but Douglas made a different kind of ______. When he was asked to draw a picture of something for which he was ______, he drew a hand. Nothing else. Just an empty hand. His picture brought ______ to his classmates. Whose hand could it be? One child guessed it was the hand of a farmer, ______ farmers raised turkeys. Another suggested it was a police officer’s hand, because the police ______ and cared for people.

While the children were ______ with each other, Miss White stood at Douglas’______, bent down and asked him whose hand it was. The little boy ______ and whispered, “It’s yours, Miss White.” What Douglas had said ______ Miss White of the time she had taken his hand and walked with him here and there. How often had she said, “Take my ______, Douglas, we’ll go outside.” Or, “Let me show you how to hold your pencil.”

The ______ speaks of more than thankfulness. It says something about teachers teaching, parents parenting, friends showing friendship, and how much Miss White’s hand ______ to Douglas. He might not always say thanks, but he’ll remember the hand that Miss White reaches out.

9 . A group of students at Yale University has set up a drone (无人机) delivery service on campus. Kiki Air_______to deliver candy, snacks and other small items to students who place orders_______an app. The service is being tested_______using a small group of student customers before being launched_______wide. Developers told the Yale Daily News that users_______items from a menu on their phones and receive them at one of several drop_______around campus in a padded envelope _______to a drone.

Kiki Air's founder, Yale senior Jason Lu, says his company_______from a class project and has_______a $150,000 grant(补助金) from a California-based investor in startups. “The convenience store business model hasn't been________in a hundred years,” Co-founder Cat Orman told the student newspaper. “Delivery is ________, inefficient and pays divers terrible wages. We created Kiki Air________we want to bring that model into the future in the ________that creates real jobs and reduces the carbon footprint.” Customers are notified when a drone is________the prearranged drop zone to ensure they are in the area to________a package.

The newspaper reported that a Kiki Air drone________last week onto a campuswalkway, but nobody was________. Oman described the incident as a “controlled landing” and said the company has increased________and will improve the service after the incident. Yale officials didn’t immediately return________left on Monday seeking comment. Company officials say they hope eventually to ________the service to other campuses.

10 . One spring, two friends and I sought permission to plant a garden. Our school was located in the downtown area of a large city. There wasn’t_______of a backyard._______ , it was our garden, a stone-covered dirt parking lot with no extra space. However, we carefully_______taking into account the area that received the best sunshine.

The three of us_______the headmaster with our plan for a small area to plant some squash, tomatoes and cucumbers. The only real _______   involved was to rent a rake(耙), a pickax(丁字镐), and a hoe(锄头). However,_______ the headmaster’s permission would still be difficult. We will never forget his _______ to our request. With a slightly bored tilting (偏斜) of his head, he _______ replied, “ You are wasting your time. Nothing will ever grow there! But go ahead _______ you still want to.”

We had received permission_______ ! So what if it wasn’t enthusiastic? We rented tools, raked four inches of stones into neat walls _______ the garden, raised the pickax and _______what must have been a former waste area. A gardener dream-dark, rich soil just sitting there_______ to be discovered. We looked at each other, repeating together: “Ah, nothing will grow there.” As you might have_______ by now, things did grow there in our garden.

Have you ever _______ that way about your life-Nothing will grow there… Have you felt   _______ about your life’s progress? Worried about crop failure? Disappointed that nothing good ever seems to   _______ ? Don’t believe that “Nothing will grow there”. It’s never too   _______ to be who you might have been. You may not always see the _______ for growth, but it is there. All the rich soil you need may be left just _______ the surface, but can only be discovered after you begin digging.