Boy dresses up to honor school security officer

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elementary /'elɪ'mentri/ adj. 初级的；基础的

When the students at Bobby G. LesterElementarySchool in Jacksonville, Arkansas, were asked to dress as their 1._______person for a day, 5-year-old Easton Blocker had just one person in mind: his school's security officer, Jeffery Cross.

The minute Easton Blocker met Cross, he has always had a fascination with Officer Cross. So Easton's mom, Lauryn helped her son get his 2._______（present/costume） ready for the special day at school. That 3._______is probably going to stick with him forever because it means a lot to him. Each time he put on the shirt,he would feel that Cross was with him and would keep him 4._______from the bad guys.When asked why he wanted to dress like Cross, Easton would have a simple answer: “He keeps me safe every day.” Therefore, the boy called Cross his hero and best friend and it was natural of him to wear a yellow “security” shirt and honor Cross on “Dress as Your Favorite Person Day”.

On the morning of “Dress as Your Favorite Person Day”, Easton woke up before his alarm 5.________ （went out/went off）. He was excited to show up to school as Cross. When he arrived at school, teachers took a photo of Easton and Cross side-by-side and posted it on Facebook—and the pair got a lot of attention.

This is the first year armed officers are in Jacksonville North Pulaski School District and it is the first district in the state to have one in every school. The kids had a lot of 6._______for their new officer at the beginning of the school year. They had questions about why the cop was armed. And Cross just told them that he was armed to protect them from someone bad who would come and hurt them. That stuck with Easton.

Seeing Easton dress like him meant a lot to Cross. “It makes me appreciate my job more,” he said.

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When asked why he wanted to dress like Cross, Easton would have a simple answer:“He keeps me safe every day.”

【信息提取】“when+过去分词/现在分词”构成的是一个省略句，此时，主从句主语一致，省略了从句的主语和be。

【句式仿写】当被老师表扬时，杰克把他中文的进步归功于同学们的帮助。