When I was young, I was quite shy and wasn’t great at school. 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 stress-free environment. However, I was really_________because I was from a village school.

I didn’t_________anyone. No one from my primary school went there. I really struggled in my first year to     _______. Thanks to Mrs. Kerswell, she was really the sort of humorous teacher, who read materials 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 reading as an entertainment. Actually, I just treated it as a learning task.

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.

Many wonderful teachers have helped shape my life. One teacher who especially stands out in my _________ was Mr. Patrick Gallagher. He was my history teacher in high school, and one of the _________ of a service club in which I was an officer.

Maya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them _________.” I remember Mr. Gallagher made me feel like I was _________. He made me see things about myself that I never _________. He encouraged me to be a student _________, saying I was an inclusive(包容的) person who always tried to _________ others into a situation. He believed in me, and I wanted to live up to(不辜负) his good _________ of me.

On days when I feel a little lost or _________, I still pull out the letter of scholarship recommendation he ________ for me. Those __________ still have the power to make me once again feel worthy and __________.

From Mr. Gallagher, I learned to shine a light on students’ __________ and help them see their own special qualities. I look for ways to tell students all the __________ I see in them, so they, too, can __________ someday and remember that a teacher saw in them a bright student with so much potential(潜能).

New Year has many interesting stories, and here is one of them told by a TikToker. The original poster works as a school teacher, and every New Year, she tries to bring ________ to her students. This time, it turned out especially great and 5.8M views on the ________ video is the best confirmation of this!

So, the Original Poster (OP) says that she usually gives books to her students in a happy game at New Year. But this time, something completely ________ happened and the OP________ this idea to her mom. The teacher’s mother loves to ________ and invited her daughter to play a little game with the students. On the eve of New Year, the original poster invited the school-children to ________ for themselves the “winter hat of their dreams” —preferably with solid colors.

Everyone did so, but no one even ________ what would happen next. The kids ________ drew cute striped hats and the teacher’s mom made their ________ come true. It turned out incredibly great and the video of the teacher starting to ________ hats to the class went even more viral, collecting an incredible 50.4M views and counting.

Yes, the children were simply ________ of course, the OP’s mother could not always choose the exact color of the Yarn (毛线), but what does it really matter when real, even small, New Year magic is happening before your eyes? And the joyful ________of schoolers thanking the teacher’s mom for the idea and its realization is completely sincere.

The vast majority of people in the comments gave this teacher the greatest ________ and to her wonderful mom as well. After all, as some commenters have pointed out, not everyone actually realizes how much work, time and love goes into these small hats. “________ off to your mom, she’s amazing!” one of the commenters wrote.

And people also believe that in our time it is absolutely priceless when a teacher really puts their soul into the educational process. People truly don’t realize that THIS is the ________. Passion, deep love and hard work characterize this profession.