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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. A few weeks ago, my eldest son, who is in his first year teaching fourth grade in a public elementary school, (decide) to put a suggestion box in his classroom, though he wasn't quite sure the box would yield. The result was not so much suggestions as appeals kindness. From "Lots of people don't mind their own business" to "I am stressed out because everybody keeps arguing about little things," there was a class-wide desire for compassion, even if there is no clear sense of how to get it. As a new teacher, my son is routinely surprised by things his 9-year-old students do, but more than anything he is surprised by how badly they treat one another. The children want to be on the receiving end of kindness but have trouble (hand) it out. On a daily basis, they (trip) up by three obstacles: lack of impulse control, thoughtlessness; and difficulty with forgiveness or letting things go. The episode reminds me of the well-known Henry James quote: "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." I think of these words when I'm with my kids, or just being a human in our world, struggling to understand kindness is learned or innate(与生俱来的), or a little bit of both. Shortly after last year's election, I bought a book called On Kindness. The authors also present a tour of kindness through the ages, from the Stoics through today, yields one surprising truth: kindness, which seems immutable(永恒不变的) a part of the human experience as love or hate, joy or sorrow, is subject to cultural shifts, governed by the thinking and mood of the age. Published back in 2009, On Kindness ends on something of a down note when it gets to our modern times. In our (strive) for success, we have become so individualistic, too selfish, loath to admit that we are dependent on anyone, which brings me back to my eldest son. Twenty-two years old, he is all too aware of what gets lost in growing up, and so he wrestles daily with how to promote and sustain a feeling of kindness in his classroom, for these children who are our future. His students are extremely sympathetic when one of peers is upset. "They are very good at comforting each other," my son recently told me. "But it's like they destroy each other first." 答案：【1】decided【2】what【3】for【4】handing【5】are tripped【6】whether【7】which【8】striving【9】their【10】have to

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