1 . Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” I’m sure that T.J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.

By high school, T.J. was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. I met him for the first time at a weekend leadership retreat (活动). All the students at school had been invited to _________ ACE training, a program designed to have students become more _________ in their communities.

At the start of the retreat, T. J. was _________ standing outside the circle of students. He didn’t _________ join the discussion groups. But slowly, the interactive games _________ him in. The other students in T. J. group _________ his comments. All of a sudden, T. J. felt like a part of the group, and before long he was being treated like a _________. By the end of the retreat, he had _________ the Homeless Project team. The other students _________ T.J. co-chairman of the team.

When T. J. ____________ at school on Monday morning, he faced a firestorm. A group of teachers were ____________ to the school principal about his being elected co-chairman. The very first communitywide service project was to be a giant food ____________. These teachers couldn’t believe that the principal would allow the important plan to stay in the ____________ hands of T.J. Ware. Mr. Coggshall ____________ them that the purpose of the ACE program was to uncover any positive passion that a student had and reinforce (加强) its practice until true ____________ can take place.

Two weeks later, T.J. and his friends led a group of 70 students in a project to collect ____________. They collected a school ____________: 2854 cans of food in just two hours. The local newspaper covered the ____________ with a full-page article the next day. That newspaper ____________ was posted on the main bulletin board at school.

T. J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. But once it has ____________, it can fly higher than the rest.

2 . 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.