I wasn’t particularly great at school. And 1 wasn’t the _________ boy because was quiet and shy. Mrs Kerswell was my English teacher. It’s hard to _________ her exact age. When you’re a child, every adult is _________. She must be past middle age, with grey hair and a(n) _________ face. Her lessons were in a totally stress-free environment. However, I was really _________ because I went from a _________ school with 28 people up to the sort of bigger town junior high school.

I didn’t _________ anyone. No one from my _________ school went there because we all went to different schools. I really struggled in my first year to _________. Thanks to Mrs Kerswell she was really the sort of humorous teacher you could have chats with, who read materials that weren’t on the syllabus (教学大纲) just for ____________.

She managed to make Beowulf interesting to a number of ____________. She was key in keeping my love of reading going. It certainly wasn’t a ____________ thing for a boy of that age to love ____________ as an entertainment. Actually, I just treated it as a learning task. But she reminded me that books were fun and they weren’t just about learning or the ____________.

When I was 13, I wasn’t excellent at writing. But she allowed and ____________ me to write in a natural way. Unlike my other teachers, she told me not to use the fanciest ____________. “Writing is not about flowery language but about real communication. ____________, you’re having a conversation on a page,” she said. So it made me realize that I didn’t have to ____________ about it too much.

I saw her once, over 10 years ago. My writing career was going well, and she was proud of my achievements and ____________ as a writer, and I really ____________ her for keeping the fame on.

In Chicago, the USA, there was a girl called Jenny. She was very polite and ready to help everybody. One day she found a brown paper bag on the way to school. She opened it and saw there was a lot of ________ in it. She thought she should hand it in to the teacher, so she ________ it in her schoolbag first.

When she went to the office, her teacher wasn’t ________.As it was time for class, she hurried to the classroom. After class, she told her friend, Linda, about the money that she ________.Then, her greedy (贪婪的) friend ________ away the bag. After school, Jenny wanted to go to the ________ office again, but she found the money was missing.

The next day when the children were playing a game, Linda fell down and was hurt very badly. The other children stood around her and didn’t know ________ to do. Jenny kept calm and did ________ to stop bleeding. She told the others to go to teachers for ________. Soon a teacher took Linda to the ________ and the doctor examined her carefully. Within a week she was all right again. Jenny became very ________ in the school.

Three days ________ , Linda came to Jenny’s house. Her ________ turned red. She was crying. She gave Jenny the ________ paper bag with the money in it and said, “Jenny, I have taken the money away. That day when you helped me, I felt very ashamed and now I decide to tell you the ________.You are such a nice friend! ________ please don’t tell the teachers about this!” Then Jenny said. “You are now ________, but you have done a bad thing. Though I will not tell anyone. I want you not to be greedy and never to do anything wrong. The girl thanked Jenny and ________.

At the end of the term Jenny was given a ________ for being a very helpful girl in the school. Linda became an honest girl and was ________ greedy.

Once wrong, never be wrong forever.

Each year, eight children in an average class in the UK are unable to read well when they leave primary school. Volunteers are welcome to join Bookmark, a non-profit organization to help ________this. With Bookmark you will brighten the futures of primary school children. Sally, a Bookmark volunteer, has a story to ________.

Sally joined Bookmark as a volunteer in 2021 when she had retired and wanted to________her time to others. Before volunteering with Bookmark, she had never worked with________beginning the sessions was indeed a step out of her ________zone. Sally felt a real________       to Bookmark’s mission and believed the challenge would ________.

“Volunteering has made me feel more________.I feel I am making a difference, however________it is. I get huge________from engaging with children and making them laugh as we read in a(n) ________ way. All the pupils I have read with so far have become________ and eager to learn. The sessions do make you think on your feet somewhat, trying to explain what words mean and trying to________a child’s comprehension of a story. I’ve also really________chatting to them and listening to them making up stories. Reading for pleasure is providing a________into learning   and a world of opportunities.“