Completely     1     (absorb) in his novel, my deskmate didn’t notice our class teacher Mary coming to him. “    2     (tell) many times to study hard, why are you still wasting your time?” Mary said angrily,     3     (glare) at him. “Sorry,     4     (not know) what to do, I just want to keep quiet in class,     5     (kill) my time.” When     6     (hear) his words, Mary left more angrily without saying anything.     7     (surprise), all the classmates stopped studying and looked up at my deskmate     8     he was always considered a hard-working boy. “It’s nothing special,” he explained,     9     (put) the novel in his bag. “Isn’t it good for us     10     (read) more?” Then he began to do his homework.

Teachers play an important role in students’ life. I, Graham, was a difficult student in high school. Once my friends and I were caught seeing who jumped    1    (far) off the stage. And I was lazy in most subjects. I had no idea     2     hydrogen was and I did not want to know,    3     .However, things have changed since I met Mr Jenkins, who was used to    4     (explain) difficult things with     5     (practice) examples in simple language.

What great fun his classes were! At one time, he set up an experiment to show us how the human stomach works     6    (use) acid and an onion. Under his    7     (guide), we built a rocket, poured the fuel into it and then     8     (light) a match to set it off.

To be honest, I was not a willing student, but he encouraged me to find my own     9     (strong), helping to arouse my interest in science-my future job. In his eyes, being a teacher is about making    10    to the students’ minds when we are open and eager to learn. I am so grateful to be a student of him.

It was my first class as a new teacher. A little girl,     1     looked very shy, was standing at the gate of the classroom.

I walked up to her and asked what was wrong with her,     2     she said nothing. Then a boy shouted, “She is from Grade Four and is the     3     (bad) student in her grade.” I understood why her teacher asked her     4     (stay) in Grade Three. Taking her hand, I    5     (lead) the girl into the classroom.

I later learned that her parents died accidentally. She became sad and didn’t like talking to others after that. She learned very slowly, but I gave her respect and never looked down     6    her. I helped her after school, and she was making progress little by little. As time went by, she was not as shy as before. When she left school, she seemed to have forgotten all her     7     (sad).

In the following     8     (year), she would send me a card on each Thanksgiving Day. Three days ago, I received an     9     (invite) to her wedding. And now, I am at her wedding, and she is smiling brightly.

Actually, everyone     10     (deserve) respect and everyone can be happy.

Mary     1     drawings were shown at the exhibition last month is a model student     2     is often praised for her good work at school. As soon as we got into the exhibition hall our attention was attracted by a very large picture     3     was hung on the wall in front of us. It was the best picture     4     I had ever seen.

A teacher named Stephanie from Toronto, Canada still distinctly remembers watching a basketball movie called Like Mike when she was a kid. The movie’s message stuck with her, so she showed it to her students while they were discussing     1    (diverse)and inclusion.

Over the course of a semester, Stephanie did a week-long lesson about how our differences make us unique, and how we shouldn’t judge people     2     we’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Students spent their class time taking measurements of their     3    (foot), designing their own sneakers on paper, and writing journals about making judgments about others     4    (base)on appearances.

Since Stephanie considered     5    (her)a “sneakerhead”, she began working behind the scenes to make the final lesson in her plan something her students would never forget. Without telling them, Stephanie     6    (buy) a pair of white sneakers for every student in her class. She paid     7     them all out of her own pocket, but as costs added up she     8    (eventual) asked her community for donations.

Each student decorated their new shoes with their own sense of style. This is such     9     fantastic way to teach kids the value of not     10    (judge)others, empathy, and creativity. We hope more teachers follow her path and create meaningful lessons like this one!

My first class was math.I really like math.I went into the classroom and sat down at a desk in the second row right near the door. The girl named Pat    1    (leave) a deep impression on me. She was very friendly. She was also very    2    (forget). She forgot her pen, so she borrowed mine.She forgot her paper, so I    3    (give) her a sheet of paper. The one thing she didn’t forget was my name.We felt like friends already!

Zhang Tian’s first year is almost over. What made him feel     1     (satisfy) was that his students achieved great progress in English learning. Besides teaching, he also brought great changes to the village,     2     included rebuilding the playground and setting up the library. The village is like his second home now.     3     he had only intended to stay for one year, he now feels ready to stay for another year.

Joe, a digital native, is     1    student from London who has been using the computer     2     he was a child. He does his school work on the computer. Besides, he also chats with his friends,     3     (watch) films, plays computer games and does many other interesting things on the net. His parents are worried that he might become too addicted     4    the Internet. They suggest that he should drag     5     (he) away from the online world and keep in more touch with the people in the real world.

Li Ying believes herself to be a go-getter, and sets     6     (goal) for herself at the beginning of each term. She aims     7    (do) well in each subject so as to prepare herself for a university degree. She always listens to the teacher     8    (attentive) in class so that she can have more time to do other things after school. Besides     9    (do) well in her lessons, Li Ying is also active in sports and     10    (volunteer) work. She is so determined that she will try her best to achieve her goals.

Have you ever paid attention to your school’s security guards? Would you say “good morning” to the cleaners? For Ding Jiacheng, a boy from Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language School,     1     is a problem that many students ignore the important jobs done by these non-teaching staff. He wanted to make     2     change.

Ding worked on a project called “The Invisible Are Significant”,     3     (hope) more students would respect the “invisible” staff. The project won a prize at China Thinks Big, a competition     4     (hold) by Harvard and Tsinghua University to encourage teenagers to explore important     5     (globe) issues and focus on solutions.

To investigate students’ attitude     6     this group, he designed a questionnaire. “In one question, 56 percent of the students said they would greet those non-teaching workers,     7     only 17 percent strongly believe that every student should do so,” said Ding.

The main reason, according to Ding, is that students know little about the work done by them and have few     8     (chance) to communicate with them. Therefore, Ding’s team     9     (shoot) videos to show staff working on campus. They also held a basketball match between students and non-teaching staff to increase their interaction.

“Explore and understand society in practice, and influence the people around us. That’s     10     the meaning of the project lies,” said Ding.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate    1    (return) to teach, and this job was no game for him; he meant business. In his introduction, he made    2    clear that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to pass the class, among other criteria (原则；标准), we had to write a paper    3    how we plan to apply what we would learn in class to our future professions and,    4    (eventual), to our lives. I    5    (manage) to get an A in that course and learned life    6    (lesson) that have served me well beyond the classroom.

Maurice Ashley was    7    good teacher. He reminds us of Confucious, who is respected by most Chinese as the    8    (great) teacher of all time. Perhaps the most important word he taught was “ren”,    9    means “benevolence (仁)”. According to Confucius, benevolence means kindness, loyalty and unselfishness. In fact, benevolence is the heart of his teaching. Every teacher should follow in his footsteps and stress benevolence    10    (improve) his teaching.