1 . Four teachers took their students for a school tour. On the school bus, every child seemed to have endless _________. They were joking and singing songs all the way back _________ suddenly the bus started shaking badly with loud noises. The driver _________ to find out the problem.

They called the traffic police and waited for the _________. It was getting dark all around. Children’s _________ was swept away by the unexpected trouble. They all sat on the bus, quiet and _________. “Look! What is there at the banks of the lake? How _________ those shining and jumping stones are!” a student shouted.

“Maybe there are some ghosts working,” said the driver with fear. Hearing that, Mayank who taught biology _________ said, “We must be _________ by something. There is no ghost, children. Don’t be afraid. Let’s go and find out this __________.” Then he got off the bus with other teachers.

At the river banks, they __________ the mystery. Those jumping stones were actually frogs. “Shining frogs?” a student wondered. “These frogs have __________ glow-worms (萤火虫) as a whole,” Mayank explained. “The membrane (膜) of a frog’s stomach is thin and can be __________. That is why they are __________.” Children learned the fact and deeply admired that their teachers had so great __________ and a scientific spirit.

2 . On Thursday, Bessemer City High School held its annual graduation ceremony (仪式). Dominque Moore (Dom) was one of the _________ in charge of organizing the event. After the ceremony had ended, Dom was _________ after the event.

Nearly everybody had left to celebrate with friends and family, but one young man was still sitting there _________ himself.

Dom _________ that someone would show up finally to give the graduate a ride home. But nobody did. When Dom _________ to drive him, neither of the two had any _________ that this was to be more than just a ride home.

The teacher decided to take him out to _________— at any restaurant of his choice. They _________ at the Cheesecake Factory, and _________ a big meal to celebrate the graduation.

At first, the two were fighting back tears. But before long, they were having a happy time together. Dom never __________ why the boy’s family did not attend the ceremony. What was __________ to him was that the young man felt appreciated for what he had got.

Later that evening, Dom took to Facebook to share a photo and some __________ on the event. He says that he doesn’t __________ post about these situations, but that something inside urged him to share this experience. And he shared his account in the post for anyone who may want to __________ this young man.

Before long, generous people had sent more than $5,000 to help him. Dom hopes that the story will give hope to those who are __________.

3 . Six people gather in a bar after receiving an anonymous (匿名的) message. Suddenly, the door closes. They ________ when hearing a hidden woman say, “All of you are ________! You should be punished!”

Don’t be scared. This is just a ________ from Under Mask, a drama performed by Senior 2 students to ________ their school’s House Theatre Festival.

The drama tells the story of a girl (played by Lu Jia), who suffers from campus bullying, cyber violence and emotional abuse from her family while in senior high school. ________, she plans revenge (复仇) secretly on those who harmed her by setting fire to a bar. In the end, she chooses to forgive them, ________ her hate and carries on with her life.

“We want to ________ those problems because they are ________ related to our daily life,” said playwright Lu Chen.

To stage the show, the cast encountered many difficulties. “The ________ script had so many logical problems that we revised it at least 10 times,” the director Qiu Tian said. “To some extent, we just ________ a new one.”

Also, for these inexperienced students, their body movements and facial expressions looked rigid (僵硬的) and ________. For example, Liu Xi, who plays the girl’s boyfriend, had no ________ about drama and performance. He couldn’t play the role confidently ________. Lu Jia was ________ by playing a character who is totally different from herself. “I don’t know how to present her ________ and pain when she was bullied and ignored by her family. She is timid (胆怯的) and ________.” But they gradually made ________ with the help of their tutor.

“At first, those children ________ many issues. But they figured out the problems through heated ________. They know the meaning of ________ as a team,” the tutor said.

4 . Just Twenty Hours

It was freshman year of college. In world history class, my professor just dropped a bombshell. 30% of our final ________ would be based on an assignment that was going to take at least twenty hours to complete. The ________? Community service. The professor also said that what could happen in those twenty hours might surprise us.

Some students in my class ________. I wasn’t particularly annoyed by the assignment, ________ I was trying to figure out how I would find the time. I was going to school only part-time because I was working full-time to pay for college. I ________shrugged (耸肩) my shoulders and thought “I’m just going to have to make it work.”

After doing some research, I found an after-school tutoring program for kids in a former elementary school. I finished my ________, and a week later got a phone call saying that I had been________ with a fourth-grade boy named Steven.

He was small ________ his age, wore glasses and was a Harry Potter fan. He was a little ________ for the first few weeks, but it was obvious he was a bright boy. He didn’t need a ________ as much as he needed a friend; it seemed that his classmates mostly ignored him.

We ________ twice a week for two hours, so it only took me five weeks to complete the ________ hours for my class. When I started, I only ________ to complete the required hours for my assignment. But when the hours were done, I realized how small a ________ it had been for me to tutor Steven. I still had enough time to do my schoolwork and my full-time job. But most importantly, I liked Steven. And I could tell that he had already grown ________ to me.

As the end of the school year approached, Steven started to get a little ________. I asked him why. He said, “Because when the school year is over, I won’t see you anymore.” I then realized that he had become so much more than just a kid I spent time with to complete a class requirement. He ________ me of my own little brother, whom I didn’t see enough. It was time to ________ that.

I started going on weekly ________ with my brother, watching movies or having dinners... And sure enough, in less than a year we became much more than just brothers. We are best friends now. My professor was ________: a lot can happen in just twenty hours.

5 . “Dear students, school will start next week. Tomorrow morning, everyone can sign up voluntarily to clean up and welcome the new term with a clean environment,” the head teacher said in our WeChat group. I didn’t _________ to sign up, because I hadn’t seen my classmates for four months. I wanted to do something for them.

The next morning, I took buckets (桶), cleaning powder and other _________. After a(n)_________ COVID testing routine, I entered the school gate. The campus was full of vitality (生机). In the early summer campus, the tall trees were luxuriant (茂盛的), the air was filled with the light fragrance of flowers, and the _________ grassland had been paved into a green _________.

When I stepped into the classroom, a person _________ me face-to-face. Although he was wearing a mask, I _________ him as head teacher at a glance. He smiled and gave me a warm hug. Then, the other students in the class also arrived one after another. It had been a long _________, and we were very happy to meet again. We smiled and clapped.

Then we _________ tasks and put our enthusiasm into cleaning up the classroom. Some students wiped the blackboard and took out rubbish, and others swept the floor or __________ the tables and chairs. Everything was being put in perfect order. I wiped the glass up and down several times with a piece of __________. The students from the other class also joined our team, helping us to __________ water and mop the floor. Although it was hard, no one __________. Sweat __________ made everyone’s clothes wet, but two hours later, when everyone saw the classroom clean and bright again, we all laughed happily.

Although we’ve experienced many challenges during the pandemic, there is still constant __________ between teachers and students. As long as we work together, we will be able to overcome all kinds of difficulties in the warm family of our school.

6 . Last month, Peters arrived at his high school graduation ceremony with black leather sneakers (运动鞋) with a white sole. However, he was told he needed to wear dark _________ shoes, but with the event starting in just _________, Peters didn’t have enough time to rash out for _________ shoes. When he saw John Butler, a paraprofessional educator and his mentor, he ran over and _________ what was happening.

Butler tried to get Peters into the ceremony with his shoes, but when that didn’t _________, he took off his loafers and _________ them to Peters. ‘‘It was easy to understand,’’ Butler told The Washington Post when asked why he had done so. “This was the most important moment in his life up to that point, and I wasn’t going to let him _________ it for anything.”

They don’t wear the same _________, and thus got a good laugh over the way Peters shuffled in the larger shoes. But Peters said he wasn’t _________ that Butler offered his shoes, because he’s that type of person. ‘‘At school, if you’re having a __________ day, he’ll be the one to take you out of class, walk around the school with you, and talk to you __________.”

The __________ caused some confusion at first---Peters’__________ didn’t know where his new, large shoes came from, and no one could understand why Butler was only wearing __________. Once the situation was explained, Peters’ mom, Jima Smith, expressed her __________ for Butler. “I pray he will continue to work in the public school system because we need more teachers like him,” she told the Post. “Our young Black men need good role models and mentors like Mr. Butler.”

7 . I have been going to the same day camp since the fourth grade. It’s a (n) _______ camp called Center for Talented Youth (CTY). For three years I _______ a food science course, fantasy writing course and forensic(法医的) science course. Afterwards, I _______to do the three-week sleep away_______ at a real-life college campus.

I desired to take an essay writing class, only _______ at a college in Upstate New York called Sycamore College. So, I flew to New York alone and _______ to get myself to the Albany airport, which requires a flight transfer. I was very nervous to be away from my parents and my dog for three whole _______ but I was also all excited.

_______ typical summer camps full of outdoor “fun”, CTY is truly a camp for nerds (书虫)with _______ after class such as “Star Wars battle with pool noodles” and “Harry Potter Jeopardy”. I fell in love with Sycamore’s________ in Saratoga Springs, New York, a tiny town I had never heard of, and didn’t even ________ the time passing. Every Friday night, there was camp-wide dance, where we all ________ in the nicest clothes we packed, shoved ourselves into a steamy college gym decorated with a few ________ and danced for hours.

What I regret most is the ________ that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I will never be able to return to camp. My first year, ________ I didn’t know it, would be my last.

On a sunny day, a yellow school bus heads to Elver Park in Madison, Wisc. The seventh graders inside are excited to_________ the rockets they've built in class.

At the park, the students find their assigned flag posts, armed with their rocket, notebook, pencil and angle finder（量角器）. Two at a time, they march to the platform and_________their rocket for take-off. They wait for their teacher's_________to start the countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…Go!

With the angle finder and a little math, they estimate each rocket's maximum_________. They calculate how their rocket_________against 90 others made by their classmates and teacher.

"With the rocket unit, I teach the_________principles of physics and motion（移动）," explains David Ropa. He teaches science at Spring Harbor Middle School and advocates learning by_________. That includes taking math and science into the park.

"Kids, like all humans, are doing science all the time," says Ropa. "They_________the world through play," he_________, "whether it's stacking toys or building bike ramps." They have a hypothesis（假说）. They set up a test. They____________the results. Then they adjust their____________.

"The____________his students use at school," says Ropa, "are similar to those that many adults use at work." Some of these adults____________a white lab coat and carry a business card with the word scientist". Most don't.

In Madison' s Elver Park, the students make their____________fly as high as they can. That teaches them the physics of____________. "It also develops a sense of creating____________and hopefulness," says Ropa.

Some kids will never____________that rocket launch. For others, the "calculation" may hook them on____________.

"Kids are____________," says Ropa. "Just watch them when the sea____________a dead fish. That's what scientists really are-very curious people who keep that curiosity going in their jobs."