1 . As the terrible disease is sweeping the country, a graduation ceremony is impossible during this period. Our volunteer team of five high school teachers ________ a narrow path, driving for four hours and ________ 25 miles. We spent the whole afternoon ________ Congratulations Seniorssigns to the senior students. In this way, we could ________ with the students we’d been teaching remotely, but hadn’t seen ________ since March. As their teachers, we were painfully ________ that we might not see those senior students again after their graduation.

This was what we did at each stop: we ________ the graduated house, appeared from our cars, planted the celebratory sign on the lawn, and shouted our ________. Some students had signs to ________ ours— Thank You Teachers! Their little brothers and sisters ran ________— it was the first time that they had seen anyone outside the family for months. The kids wanted to get out— out of the tiny orbits (活动范围) in their ________, which were full of protective restrictions and anxiety.

But what were ________ were the crying moms and dads. They stood back, giving their kids the ________ to connect with us, and ________ from a distance. Their tears reminded us of what we should do. We ________ the welled-up (涌起的) emotion, and then we asked the ________ enthusiastic questions about their ________ for the summer and beyond. They told us the college they ________ and tried to imagine what that would look like. Then we moved onto the next ________ and put on our cheerful faces.

We are truly ________ of the students’ achievements and any small way we contributed to them. They are excellent seniors and the disease can’t stop them.

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