学进去

Why open a school? If you ask Nadia Lopez this question, she would simply answer: to close a prison (监狱).

Lopez is the headmaster of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public school in Brooklyn, one of _________ neighborhoods in New York City. It faced many difficulties but the greatest one is to get in touch with children without hope.

At first, Lopez only had 45 kids to start. If she asked a 13-year-old, “Where do you see _________ in five years?” the answer would be, “I don’t know _________ I’m going to live that long.” Or a young woman might say that she had _________ lifelong dream of working in a fast-food restaurant. These students had no idea that there _________ chances outside their neighborhood. Luckily, Lopez didn’t give up and made every effort to keep her students active and hopeful.

“We call our students ‘scholars (学者)’, because they’re lifelong learners. I wanted _________ them that they are children of great people, and through education, they are future engineers, scientists and even leaders who _________ take over this world,” Lopez said.

A popular New York blogger (博主) heard _________ the school and wrote a post about it. The post reached millions of people and about 1.4 million dollars _________ for the school.

“So far, we __________ three gradating classes. This is nearly 200 children.” said Lopez.