I was so worried about handing my little boy over during his first week of school, but Miss Anna made it easier. Miss Anna smiled at him like a mother would at her own child. Miss Anna radiated (流露) warmth and her hugs were always on _________.

After a day in class with her, Ben would come home _________. Whenever I heard his song about the days of the week, I would _________ her. I didn’t tell her at the time, but I loved her morning song so much that I _________ it in my own class.

Her creativity was _________. I’ll never forget the children’s faces when she beautifully _________ the classroom into “the Deep Dark Wood”. I remember their _________ faces talking about “the Magnificent Tower Building” she’d created.

In the short time I knew her, she taught me about the type of teacher I am _________ to be. She never seemed _________ by the mountain of paperwork or impossible work-life balance that comes with the __________. Instead, she appeared to __________ every minute.

I can’t understand why she has been taken from us. Telling Ben was one of the __________ things I’ve had to do. I’m not sure whether he fully __________ where she is. I hope everything she taught him about the place where good people go when they die is __________.

I wish I had told her all of this when she was with us. I hope that she knew the extent of her __________, and how loved she was.

I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And unless otherwise assigned (指定) a seat by the teacher. I always_________to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this_________after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy_________because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the_________to keep pace with the others on the team and they would laugh at me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “_________for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give a try.

Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the_________of it! When I first started_________the practice sessions (练习赛), I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much less what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get_________and take a shot at the wrong direction — which made me feel really stupid._________, I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to__________learning the game, do my best at each practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t know “just yet”.

I practiced and practiced. Soon I__________the rules and the “moves”. Being part of a team was fun and motivating. Very soon the competitive__________in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time, I learned__________to play and made friends in the process — friends who respected my efforts to work hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!

With my__________self-confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from“__________” in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself to raising my hand — even when I sometimes wasn’t 100 percent sure I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence in myself.

UPS driver Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond in Bozeman when he heard a strange sound. It was December, and about 15 feet from the frozen bank was the _______ of that sound — a half-submerged（半淹没）wire-haired dog, _______ to cling to a thin layer of ice. An elderly man was already on the _______ determined to save her. He'd _______ the pond in a rowboat and was striking the ice with a rock to create a _______ to the dog. It was slow going, and Arens, 44, thought he stood a _______ chance.

"Animals are my weakness,^” he said, _______ why he chose to take off his overcoat, even though the temperature was in the -30s, and _______ the rescue task.

His heart beating fast, Arens _______ the dog, using the other man's rock to break the ice. He gave one __________heave（拖动）with so much force that he slipped off the boat, __________ into 16 feet of cold water. Luckily, he __________ in time to see the dog going under. He swam about five feet toward her, took __________ of her collar, and pulled her to the ice. He then lifted the dog into the __________ and slid it back to the shore, where __________ bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat owner. Once in the house himself, Arens jumped into a __________ shower with the dog until they both defrosted（解冻）. A few more minutes in the pond, and the dog would have likely __________ .

The next day, Arens was back working in the __________ neighborhood when the dog's owner __________ to thank him for saving Sadie. The dog's owner opened the door to his pickup, and Sadie ran out. She went __________ towards Arens, leaping on him and bathing him in wet kisses. "That special delivery was the highlight of my UPS career." said Arens.