An Italian teacher didn’t want to give students the usual holiday homework. He would give them 【小题1】 list of life advice.

Most school children in Italy have schoolwork. Cesare Cata 【小题2】 (teach) at a middle school. He wants his students to spend 【小题3】 (they) time enjoying themselves. “Go and watch the sunrise at 【小题4】 (little) once,” he wrote in the 15-point “homework” list. He also told the students to walk beside the sea 【小题5】 the morning, thinking of the things they love in life.

Mr. Cata didn’t want his students to forget knowledge, 【小题6】 he asked them to read widely and write something with all of the new words. “The more things you can think about, the 【小题7】 (free) you will be,” he said.

More than 3,000 people 【小题8】 (share) the teacher’s homework on the Internet. And 【小题9】 (hundred) of them left positive comments (积极的评论). “I wish I’d have a 【小题10】 (wonder) teacher like you,” one person wrote. Another person said, “With a teacher like you, I would go back to school tomorrow!”

Good day. I’m Michael and I’m a science teacher at the Darwin school of online education. We teach students aged 11 to 18. In many ways, teaching at an online school is just like teaching in a normal high school. Students hand 【小题1】 their homework by mail. We read and mark it. The biggest difference I think is the classroom. It’s a small room and 【小题2】 is nobody in it but me. The other difference is that I give the class in front of the camera. It seems strange 【小题3】 first, but it is easier than teaching in front of the class of thirty kids. Another difference, and this is the most difficult thing for me, is that I can’t see any of the students. They can see me, 【小题4】 I can’t see them. So I don’t know 【小题5】 they are interested or bored by the lesson. But I can hear them, so I usually ask them questions during the lesson to make sure they are listening.

When I first met my fifth-grade teacher, I was happy. She seemed pretty nice, so I was excited to spend a whole year with her. Every day the class would read stories, sing songs and learn about different cultures around the world. I thought I was very lucky to have 【小题1】 a great, kind and caring teacher.

When December came around, my teacher suddenly stopped 【小题2】 to school. The whole class missed her. Rumors spread around the school about 【小题3】 she didn’t come to school. But no one knew the truth.

For the rest of the school year, I never saw her again. In the middle of the sixth grade, I knew she had died 【小题4】 cancer. I felt very upset. I wish I could visit her in the hospital. I remember all of the happy times we had together whenever I 【小题5】 about her. I never told her how much she meant to me. And now it's too late.