Going off to university gives students the opportunity to move out of home and into halls – and the chance to make their own decisions free of parental _________. For many, the experience is _________. But it is not suitable for everyone, which is why many students choose to commute(走读).

At Oxford Brookes University, a travel survey for 2012 found that almost a quarter (24.1%) of students travelled more than 10 miles to get to campus, while more than a third (34%) took journeys _________longer than 30 minutes. These figures may seem surprisingly high, but with the increase in tuition fees and the rising costs of living, they are _________ to grow.

Of course _________ pressures are not the only reason students opt to travel significant distances to university. Helen Jenkins, who studies English and Japanese, decided to commute to Oxford Brookes after _________ from depression in her first year.

The question of degree availability is vital. Less _________ subjects aren't taught at all institutions. Students who are tied _________ by family commitments are left with little choice but to travel considerable distances to _________ their studies.

Moreover, first-year students who fail to get a place in halls, or got a last-minute university place through clearing, are often __________ to commute – at least in the beginning.

Having lived in student accommodation in my first year, I opted to commute from London to Oxford in my second. I am fully __________ of the pros and cons(利害之处) of being a teenage coach commuter. While I adore my course, "student life" wasn't for me.

Though I now have all my home comforts, it is important to stress that living at home is not the easy option. I endure a journey that takes several hours out of my day, have less time to socialize, and am an awfully long way away from the university library. I estimate my travel will have __________ me £1,000 by the end of the year. This isn't cheap, but it is considerably less than the cost of __________ a property and having to worry about all the bills that come with it.

Students are finding a variety of __________ to the problem of high rentals: some have decided to study by distance learning, for example, through the Open University, while others are doing degrees at local further education colleges. The more __________ are opting to study in Europe, where education is cheaper, though the cost of travelling back and forth to Britain soon cuts into their savings.

Mrs. Hudson walked into the classroom with a girl limping (瘸着走) behind her. She introduced, “This is Margaret. She just moved here from Florida. Let’s _______ her.” The teacher guided her _________ to a front seat, then bent over and _______ something in her ear. Finishing explaining the math problems, Mrs. Hudson _______, “Milk- break time. See you in ten minutes.”

Boys _________ first. “Today, let’s meet at the far end of the sidewalk. And make sure the new girl doesn’t follow us!” I said. After a while, I came back to the _________. I wanted to find out if Mrs. Hudson liked my book report. With her usual big smile, she began, “Jack, you are a good _________.” Shifting my weight from one foot to the other, I was a little _________ that Mrs. Hudson liked me so much. Her _________ let me know how much she appreciated having me around. My teacher __________ in her quiet voice. “That’s __________ I am sure you will invite Margaret to play with you today.” Her __________ words sounded like frozen knives aiming at my heart. Could she ________ suspect what we had been saying about Margaret? Could she know how __________ I was?

Then I managed to __________ Margaret in our group. While many school memories have __________ over the years, the __________ Mrs. Hudson taught me has stayed with me. Mrs. Hudson gently guided me, ________ me to do the right thing. She believed in me, and __________ what she did, I rose to the level of her __________, both for Margaret long ago and even later in my choice of career.

Thirty years ago, I was a senior high school student. One day after our test papers were_________, our math teacher asked twelve students who had made exactly the same mistakes to remain. There is nothing really new about _________ in exams. Perhaps that was why she didn’t even say a word about it. _________, she wrote on the blackboard the words by Thomas Macaulay: the real _________ is not measured by what a man does in _________, where he’ll be seen, but what he would do if he knew he would never be_________ out.

I don’t know about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single _________of my life. Now entering my third decade after being_________to Macaulay’s words, they still seem to me the best _________, because they give us a way to measure ourselves rather than others.

_________ of us will be asked to make great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are_________ daily to make a great many personal decisions. Should the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket _________ turned over to the policeman? Should the _________change received at the store be forgotten or_________? Nobody will know except you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always_________ to live with yourself deserving your own respect.