【推荐3】A seven-year-old is set to become one of the youngest cyclists to ride between London and Paris to help a charity that funded him after his father’s death.

Rupert has ________ more than £11,000 for the Children’s Bereavement Centre, which helped him ________ the death of his father. He plans to start his ride on July 6. The charity said he would be among the youngest to ________ the 200-mile challenge.

Rupert’s father was killed in a work ________ in April 2019 when his son was just four. “It was ________ for me to understand that he was never coming back, and that I would never see him again,” he said. “________ was ever the same again and my life was changed ________.”

He said the Nottinghamshire-based charity had ________ him and his mother Jess by introducing them to other families who had also experienced loss. “Riding my bike ________ me of my short time with my daddy. This will be a massive ________ for me but I know I will make my daddy very proud,” he said. He hoped the funds he raised would make a ________ to other bereaved children. Jess added she was “super proud” of her son.

Kate Baxter, CEO of the Children’s Bereavement Centre, said: “We are absolutely ________ that Rupert has decided to support the Children’s Bereavement Centre by accepting this amazing task. Riding 200 miles from London to Paris is a great ________ for a 7-year-old boy. As far as we know, it is ________ for the youngest person to ride this route and embark on this epic journey. In a word, Rupert is a real ________.”

【推荐1】On a bright afternoon, Jordan, Mahir and Mahir’s father gathered at the foot of a mountain. “Hey, Jordan, over here!” Jordan’s best friend, Mahir, waved his hand, pointing to a crack in the side of the mountain. “We could ________ this!”

Jordan tied his safety harness (系带) and checked his rope. He weighed one of them in his hand, determining its weight. Then he looked for ________ locations, considering the difficulty of the task. “That crack is ________ narrow. I don’t think we’d get up very high.”

“At the time of a test, a person rises or falls.” said Ghanim, Mahir’s dad. Shaking his head in ________ over the foreign proverb (谚语), Jordan examined the crack. It was nothing more than a sliver in the solid face of the cliff. He shifted in his harness as Mahir gave the proverb his own explaination: “If you’re not reaching the ________, you’re not trying hard enough.” Jordan recognized the bit of advice from a previous climbing lesson.

His own father’s voice resounded in his thoughts, as if in a half-forgotten dream. “Climb a mountain, son, and you climb the insecurity in your own life. You climb over your shadow, climb over your ________.” That was five years ago, before the automobile ________ that took his dad’s life. Jordan’s father swiftly turned his car and effectively ________ a car from going over a cliff. The sudden move had saved the people in that car. But his father’s car went off a cliff. ________ with the difficult situation, Jordan’s dad had never hesitated before making the decision.

And now Jordan wouldn’t either. ________ on his balance, he took a deep breath and began to climb. Finally, they made it to the peak of the mountain.

【推荐2】When you're a kid, theme days at school are a big deal. They're a chance to dress up in something special and   _____________from your regular routine. So when you can't participate in one, it is sad. That happened to a first-grade student named Levi recently. _____________his bus driver stepped in to _____________the day.

As the driver, Larry Farrish noticed the boy was   _____________. When Farrish asked what was wrong, the boy   _____________he didn't have pajamas (睡衣) for Pajama Day. Farrish knew he should do something. After   _____________his job, he headed over to a store. There, he   _____________a pair of pajamas that might _____________ the boy and drove back to the school.

He asked the office to call Levi down, and that's when their days took a major   _____________ "I can tell Mr Larry is   ________________" Levi said. "When he got me the pajamas, I did a   ________________ cry.”

As a driver, Farish feels that his   ________________allows him to connect with kids more and he takes the job seriously. Doing so can influence how kids ________________. Not only do kids learn by   ________________, but when they know they're   ________________, they do thrive (成长).