Learning experience happens to us throughout our lives. Not long ago I had one that I would like to
   1     .
     I was going to Marblehead with my sailboat team. The team was racing down the highway at 85
mph       2  we realized we were    3    . Luckily, we saw a rest area ahead. I had a brand-new $ 20 bill.
I was so    4    because I had never had that kind of cash before. But spending it on   5    seemed like
throwing it away. We all rushed into the pizza line.   6     I got a pizza and a drink, and walked to my
table. About halfway through the meal, I    7     I had not actually handed any money to the cashier . I
had just   8     out, and nobody had noticed. I felt terrible.
     My conscience opened its mouth and swallowed me in one big bite. I couldn't    9      over it. I just
couldn't go back to the cashier and    10     for my stolen pizza. I was so upset that I    11    to give
myself  the pleasure of an ice cream in    12     that someone would say "Hey, Jeff, why don't you use the
change    13    the pizza instead of that nice, new $ 20 bill?" I was not so    14     of my cash now.
     For the next two years, whenever I was    15      of the "Pizza incident", I would say to myself "Don't
think about it any more".
     I have learned two things from this    16     . Maybe I was a fool for   17      in to my conscience, and
being too stupid to appreciate a   18     pizza. But the real lesson is that even if you get away from what
you have done, your conscience will   19      up with you.
     This reflects the saying "A coward dies a thousand deaths, a hero dies one." I was a coward and
have felt terrible about that incident at least a thousand times. If I had been a   " 20 "   and gone back to
pay for the pizza, I would have felt a little uncomfortable about it only once, or maybe twice.

     As a music teacher, I have always known that music touches the soul. It can   1    all kinds of
barriers to reach students in a very special way. It can be the   2    for each child to find their light. I
would like to    3    a story about it.
     For a few years I was   4    with the opportunity to teach disabled students. One of my most    5   
students was a five-year-old girl called Vanessa, who had difficulty walking, and could not speak.
We   6      sat on the floor for our music lessons and Vanessa liked to    7     on my lap(膝上). One of
her favorite songs was "John the Rabbit. " It was a call and response song where I sang the call and the
students     8   twice while singing the repeating phrase, "Oh, yes! " Vanessa liked to    9    her hands
together with mine and clap with me. We probably performed that song during every class, Vanessa
and I clapping together. But she   10     said or sang a word.
     One day, when the song was finished, Vanessa turned around,   11     me in the eye, clapped her
tiny hands twice and said the words " Oh, yes 1" I opened my mouth in    12     and for that moment I
was the one who could not speak. When my heart    13     started beating again, I looked over at the
assistant teacher to find her also    14     Through music, we had made an awesome connection.
     Several years later, I met Vanessa on the street in town. She waved with a big     15     on her face
and then clapped her hands twice, imitating the song we had     16    so many times in our music class.
The little girl,   17     her connection with music, left an impression on me that will last forever. Every
child has the    18    to learn and grow. It is up to us to   19     the way to reach each and every one
of our students. We all must find each child's   20     .