A school is a place of learning for a child. It is a place to _________ academic knowledge and learn _________ skills between students.

I was _________ to a school at the age of five. It was basically a primary school. The memory of my first day in school is still _________ in my mind. It was a small _________ with eight rooms.My _________ took me to the headmaster's office and got me admitted in the school. I still_________ that the first day of my school was a Monday. My class teacher was very gentle(温和的).She encouraged me and treated me _________.I felt a bit nervous in the new environment. The boys of my class looked at me with _________ and smile. I had with me my English textbook and ____________ my first lesson in alphabet(字母表）．

Soon the bell for the break rang. The boys rushed out of the ____________.Some of them gathered round me.They ____________ me and made fun of me.A few ____________ me and made friends with me. I had a novel experience. The final ____________ rang at one thirty in the afternoon. All the boys felt very happy. I also ____________ my school bag and hurried back to my home with my mother who was waiting for me at the school gate.

The ____________ of my first day at school is still clear in my mind. I feel proud when I ____________ it to others. It gave me a ____________ feeling of fear and anxiety as I went to school on the very first day with my mother.

Today,several years later, I feel ____________ that I went to school. If I hadn't, I wouldn't be able to become a writer and____________ this text for young readers you.

At first I couldn’t believe it! There were no _______ in rows; no bells rang; no one had to go to _______ . Although we all lived “in”,_______ made us go to bed at a certain time; there was no “lights out”.

The_______thing was that practically all the students went to class,_______very few people stayed up late at night. Only the new people stayed up or_______class. The new ones always went wild at first, but this never lasted long. The_______took some getting used to. Our teachers treated us like_______; never did we have to_______“stand up”, “sit down”, “speak out”. I don’t ________one student who didn’t try his best.

The subjects were the same as those in________school, but what a difference in the approach(方式)！For example, in botany (植物学) we had________classes in the spring or fall, but instead we________two gardens, a vegetable garden and a flower garden. Then in winter we each studied a few________things about what we had grown. In math, the students built three different kinds of storerooms - small ones, but usable. They did this instead of having lessons in the classroom. They really had a________time too, designing everything, drawing the blueprints, figuring out (计算出) the angles (角度) and so on. I didn’t take________ . I can’t stand it! Besides, I could do the basic things with numbers. That’s ________!

On the whole, I think I am a________person for having gone to the school. I can read and write as well as anyone else my age, and I can think better. That’s probably a real big ________between the free school and regular school—the amount of ________

Several years ago, I was teaching students when Charley entered into the classroom. What _________ me most was that he was in rags. Other children in the classroom stared at Charley _________ as they had never before seen such clothes. When asked to _________ himself, he told us he was from a distant village and usually helped parents do housework.

One afternoon, we had a game, and Charley made a perfect start. Next was Bruce’s turn. Bruce was the least _________ and athletic child in the history of our class. After Bruce’s second failure, Charley came up and spoke quietly to the _________ Bruce, “Forget them. I believe you can _________ it next time.”

By the semester’s end, we had all admired Charley for his _________. He taught us how to _________ a tough math question, how to _________ ripe fruit from raw fruit before that first bite, and how to treat others, even Bruce, who never called me “Miss”.

That afternoon before winter vacation, Charley walked to my desk and bent close to my ear, “My __________ boxes came out last night. I’m leaving here and moving to another place with my parents tomorrow. I’ll miss you.”

As I grasped the __________, my eyes were filled with tears. Then, as I __________ my calmness, Charley broke the __________ silence by pulling something from a box, saying, “It’s for you. I have prepared it especially for you, you’re a(n) __________ example of hardworking teachers, I show great respect for you.”

It was a dry leaf, the most valuable __________ that I had had.