【推荐1】When it comes to her passion for travel, Luisa Yu doesn’t take “no” for an answer. If she did, she might not have _________ the beautiful beaches in Somalia at age 77.

“Everyone said, ‘Don’t go to Somalia. That’s _________.’” Yu told NPR “If I want to go somewhere, nobody can _________ me. I like challenge — it’s more exciting.”

Thanks to her _________, the 79-year-old has now traveled to all 193 countries, a goal she’s _________ for more than 50 years.

Yu caught the travel passion _________. Growing up in the Philippines, she was inspired by the movies she watched as a kid. She made up her mind to visit the natural landscapes she saw on _________.

“I saw all the beautiful lakes and wild animals,” she said. “That’s how I started dreaming that one day I was going to see the _________.”

Her first step in _________ that dream came in her early 20s, when she arrived in the US as an exchange student. During her stay in the US, she __________ the country by bike.

The round-the-world travel wasn’t __________. She waited 15 years to get her green card to be able to travel internationally. There were times when she worked as many as three jobs at a time to save up enough money for __________.

Eventually, she became a part-time travel agent, which offered her more freedom and opportunities to see different places, including __________ to countries that are too difficult for tourists to visit.

The __________ traveler’s advice for us?

“Don’t wait for anybody,” she said. “If you keep on waiting, it will never __________.”

【推荐2】In 2016, Deepa Maurya was diagnosed (诊断) with lung cancer. After an operation, she was officially ________ cancer free, only to become sick again the following year.

In her ________ against cancer, she has ________ several operations, along with chemotherapy (化疗), and radiation therapy.

The 51-year-old said in an interview “My life has ________ completely. It has been a long time since I enjoyed the North Indian ________ that I grew up with because of oral ulcers (溃疡), a side-effect of chemotherapy. I really ________ the taste of it.”

“My work, in which I take much ________ and pride, had to be reduced as I needed the time to ________ after my treatment. Even worse, I ________ some long-time friends over the years as well.”

Yet despite all her ________— both physical and emotional — Deepa continues to ________ her cheerfulness and engagement in work and life, ________ participating in various platforms. Most of all, she has become a(n) ________ for regular check-ups to get timely diagnosis.

Instead of being ________ by her condition, such as not being able to use her left arm due to neuropathic (神经性的) pain, she is ________ that she can still use the computer to work.

During an interview, she said, “Work makes me happy and keeps me busy.”

【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 ________.”