People often lose their driving license because of driving after drinking. I have always ____ myself that I will never drive if I have drunk alcohol(酒精) ____, no matter the ____.

Still, half a year ago I made this ____ of driving after having drunk two beers at my friend's. Then I drove home, since it wasn’t very ____. I thought that there would be no ____, because it was very late at night. However, to my surprise, I was   ___ and left without my driving license for three months. I told my parents nothing   __ , but then I had to invent a lie, because I did not have the ____ to tell them that I had drunk alcohol and that was the real reason for which I was left without my driving license.

Those three months seemed to pass very ____ for me, because I had got into the ___ of driving almost daily and I really needed my car quite often. I had to take a   ___ and I didn't like it as I spent lots of money. It was, indeed, a(n) ____ for me not to have my driving license and I told myself never to repeat this mistake.

___ this, being drunk while driving ____ a real danger not only for the driver, but also for ____, Car accidents caused by alcoholism are very ____ nowadays, Teenagers especially use alcohol ____ going out with friends and then return home driving their cars. They are very irresponsible as they put their lives and health in ____and, therefore, I advise people to ____ drinking alcohol before driving.

Both my parents were educators, and for the past 40 years I’ve done the same thing. As_________, we know why kids don’t learn. But one thing that we _________discuss is the value and importance of human_________. A fellow teacher once said to me, “They don’t pay me to_________the kids. They pay me to teach a lesson.” I replied, “Kids don’t_________from people they don’t like.”

For years I watched my mother take the_________at break to buy snacks for kids that needed to_________, and bath soap for kids who didn’t smell so_________. Years later, after she retired, I watched some of those same kids come through and say to her, “Ms. Walker, you made me feel like I was _________. And I want you to just see what I’ve __________.”

When my mama died two years ago at 92, there were so many__________students at her funeral (葬礼). It brought tears to my eyes, not because she was __________, but because she left a treasure of relationships that could never __________.

Every child deserves a champion, and an adult who will never __________on them. We’re educators. We’re born to make a__________.