The summer I turned 12, I wished to grow up more quickly.

Summer camp was coming. and I was so worried about my _____ that I’d gotten into a big argument with my mom.

“But I’ll ______ it!” I cried. I was certain that everyone would see me as nothing more than “the short girl”.

“You won’t know anything _____ you get there, ” calmed my mom. And I had to ____.

On Monday, my teacher Maggie told us about the climbing course, and my heart sank when I saw the wall I was the ____ one to try to climb that huge wall. It might have been ten floors high, and knew that I had no ____ to succeed. But I had to, after the other campers finished.

I asked for a “short person’s pass,” smiling ____ and walking around the wall.

“You know. Amy, what the mind can believe, the heart can achieve. ” ____ Maggie. “I’d really like you to do your best to ____ the wall.”

I pretended（假装） to hurt my knee ____ I could avoid it.

“How’s the knee? Does it hurt a lot?” Maggie asked. She was so kind, which made me feel ____ because I didn’t like to lie.

Maggie was really patient, showing me ____ she climbed the wall. And some campers were there cheering for me.

I didn’t want to______ anymore, and I didn’t want to give up again. I could see how much everyone believed in me, and I wanted to show them how much I valued their ____, so I kept trying.

And then something ____ happened—I made it! “What the mind can believe, the heart can achieve,” Maggie reminded me. And this time I knew it was true.

   Bruce Kelley, a reporter interviewed people and asked, “What are some of the highlights (最精彩的部分) of your life so far?” Here are some of her answers.

Marianne Carus, who started Cricket（蟋蟀）magazine in 1973 and served as Editor-in-Chief（总主编）until 2012, died on March 3 at the age of 92 this year.

Marianne believed that “only the best of the best is good enough for the young.” In Cricket, children would find wonderful stories with beautiful art, and be encouraged by ideas in the humanities and sciences. Marianne looked for stories from around the world to awaken admiration for different peoples and cultures. Most important, Cricket would never talk down to children.

Marianne knew that children were filled with fun, and she wanted Cricket to be, too —“humor from the heart that makes you laugh out loud. ” And so. she named her literary magazines after a funny group of bugs（虫子）, such as Lady bung and Spider.

Over the years. Cricket has been read by millions of children and given many writers and artists their start Marianne kept a special box of “love letters” to the magazine. She treasured these letters from Cricket readers, including long-ago readers. They told her that their interest in reading had begun with Cricket.

  ▲   She considered other names, such as Troubadour or Taliesin, the singers and storytellers of old who traveled from one place to another to share their songs and stories. Then one night, she was reading Isaac Bashevi Singer’s memoir（回忆录）A Day of Pleasure about his childhood in Warsaw. In it he wrote∶“There was a stove in Shosha’s apartment behind which there lived a cricket. It chirped the nights through all winter long I imagined the cricket was telling a story that would never end. ” That’s exactly what Marianne wanted her children’s magazine to do—to tell stories that would never end! So the name Cricker became her best choice.

Thank you for everything, Marianne. May the stories, and the laughter, never end!

The Youth Climate Summit (气候峰会) a week-long festival of climate action for primary and middle schools in the UK, starts on 9 November. It aims to create a fairer, more environmental world and make promises that will help the planet. Climate change is the long-term changes in the world’s weather patterns that are mostly caused by human activity. “Unlike world leaders,” say the summit’s organizers, “young people are refusing to let it drop off the plan.”

Each day has a topic, which includes food and fashion, looking at how humans harm the environment and how to save the planet. Organizations are leading some on line activities. For example, the Marine Conservation Society is hosting meetings on protecting sea fish. Separately, the environmental organization Greenpeace is running a workshop on how to turn worn-out clothing into something new and wearable.

The summit will finish on 13 November, when youth ambassadors (大使) wants schools to stop paper waste. Max, another 16-year-old ambassador wants schools to organize more trips and activities that get students outside to experience the beauty of nature. As part of the summit, hundreds of schools across the country are signing up to the Let’s Go Zero activity, aiming to become carbon-zero (零碳的) by 2030.

Carbon-zero schools are ones that promise to stop emitting carbon in seven areas, including where they get their food and how they use water and recycle their waste. The activity is run by Ashden, a charity working towards climate solutions. Ashden hopes that schools will be able to help each other by sharing ideas and methods. It is also calling on the Government to back the promise. Head over to transform-our-world.org where you can find out more.

   If we want to grow as people, we can’t just depend on our own evaluation (评价) of how we’re doing. We also need to know what other people think about our performance. Receiving feedback (反馈) from others can help us see the larger picture and show us a way forward to success. However, someone has to give that feedback, and sometimes, that someone will be you. How should you deal with this?

First things first—if you notice a situation in which some feedback would be helpful, give it as soon as you can. If you wait until the matter disappears from the person’s mind, they might not understand what you’re trying to tell them. Take the person to a safe, comfortable place and offer your advice in private.

When you’re giving feedback, it’s important to keep in mind that no one likes to be told they’re doing a bad job. Make sure you give an equal (相等的) amount of good feedback to balance out (平衡) anything bad. Like the saying goes, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”

All good feedback shares something in common. First, it should help achieve a goal. It’s less useful to tell your friends that their dish tastes “interesting” than it is to suggest adding a little salt. Feedback should also look toward the future. You can’t change what’s already happened, but you can prevent it from happening again. Tell your friends they should take more notes in class instead of talking about how they should have studied harder for the big history exam they failed.

Finally, don’t think your suggestion is the only correct way to deal with a situation. You might even end up with some feedback on your feedback. Don’t take it personally — it can only help you give better advice next time

   At 7 am, we got on the state-of-the-art Fuxing Hao train at Shanghai Railway Station. We stored our
41． (背包) and found our seats. Unlike other trains which start with a shake and much
42． (噪音), this train felt so smooth that if you were not looking out of windows, you could
43． (几乎不) tell we were moving. Yet, within minutes, we were passing over the rails at speeds of more than 350 kilometers an hour.

Soon, the towns of
44． (东部的) China were rushing by. I saw my wife smiling and
45． (指向) to a coin she had balanced on the table. She took another coin and balanced it next to the first, and then another, until she had a
46． (行) of coins. They stood there on the table for more than 20 minutes before one finally fell over.

After that, we
47． (两个都) went back to reading and enjoying the beauty outside. We felt quite
48． (放松的). Then, before we knew it, we heard the announcement that we were arriving in Beijing. For 1,318 kilometers, we
49． (花费) only 4 hours and 38 minutes. Thanks to high speed trains, we can travel in China much more conveniently. No
50． (疑惑), they will also bring the people of the country closer together, and in time bring about deep social changes, the full nature of which no one can fully guess.

Ten-year-old Orion Jean has always known that kindness is important. He often practiced it by volunteering with his family.
51．, after entering the National Kindness Speech Contest, he became more active in it. Now he works to spread kindness everywhere through projects which help others. He calls
52． (he) action the Race to Kindness.

After
53． teacher told him about the contest, Orion had only 24 hours to write, memorize
54． record his speech. In it, he talked
55． the importance of kindness. “Kindness is like spreading hugs around the world to those who need it.” Orion said. He encourages
56． (listener) to join him in “the race of kindness” by doing small, kind acts for others. Orion’s speech won the contest. He used his $500 prize
57． (collect) 619 toys for a local children’s hospital. After that, Orion wanted to make an even
58． (big) influence. In charity he packed meal boxes for people in need including a kind message for each receiver.

Orion says, “If someone is treated
59． (kind), it can make their day brighter and encourage that person to be kind to somebody else. And then it just
60． (grow) and makes the world a better place.”

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