I was eighteen years old and I was the golden girl. I was president of the college drama society, a member of the student senate and so on. I was the _______ of all my friends and I was in a state of pride.

The old Greek tragedies _______ us that when pride rises, punishment falls. My universe _______ with great suddenness. The scenery（舞台布景道具）fell on my head and I was left almost blind for the next four months.

My memory was in a mess and within a few months all my _______ were taken away. I was ever told that I would have to leave the college at the end of the spring term _______ clearly, I couldn't do academic work.

Sad, I took one last course by Dr. Jacob Taubes. He was the most brilliant teacher I had ever _______ and in his class. I began to raise a tentative _______ and ask an occasional question. He would answer with great intensity. And soon I found myself asking _______ questions constantly.

One day I was walking to the bus when I heard Dr. Taubes _______ me, “Miss Houston, let me walk with you. You know. you have a most ________ mind.”

“Me? I have a mind?”

“Yes, of course.” Then he asked my understanding of some problems discussed in the classes.

From that day on, Dr. Taubes continued to ________ me to the bus, always ________ me with intellectually vigorous questions. Within several weeks my eyesight came back and my spirit bloomed.

What I acquired from this experience was a ________ sense of life. I remain deeply ________ for the attention Dr. Taubes had shown. He acknowledged me when I most needed it. I swore then that I would try to ________ and acknowledge the unlucky person as I had been acknowledged.

Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computers in the school he works in. I think it is a___________school except for the fact that the school didn't have computers.

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture, people could see he was teaching his students by_________an entire computer on the blackboard. The photos showed the poor level of education for children in Ghana. People were_________that Owura made sure each button (按钮) was drawn correctly.

Owura wanted the students to_________what life with a computer could be like someday. He would come to school half an hour ahead of_________every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was_________off to start the next class, so he had to repeat it the next day!

Owura's efforts were_________when Microsoft (微软公司) took_________of his act. They first took him to an international educators' meeting in Singapore. He made a_________about his teaching methods at the meeting. He__________a standing ovation (起立鼓掌) after the speech.

Importantly, Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies__________computers to the school. Not a single child in the school had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher's__________the world took notice and responded with__________to them.

“Your work has really__________the world. At Microsoft, we believe that educators are heroes. They__________influence the lifelong skills of their students,” said Anthony Salcito, vice president at Microsoft.

The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had _________ up most of the night before laughing and talking with friends. Just before my first _______ of the day my eyelids (眼皮) were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a _______. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class couldn’t _________, I thought.

BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my _______ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the _________. My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had _________ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!” he said still _________. “I am glad to see everyone is _________. Now let’s get started. ”

For the next hour I wasn’t __________ at all. It wasn’t from the shock of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was instead from the __________ discussion he led. With knowledge and good ____________ he made the material come ____________. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ________ with were contagious (有感染力的). I __________ the classroom not only wide __________ but a little smarter and a little better as well.

I learned something far more important than not __________ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, do it with __________. What a wonderful place this world would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk through your __________. Wake up! Let your love fill your work. Life is too __________ not to live it well.