【推荐2】Lexie Alford is a 21-year-old girl. She is recognized as the _________ person ever to visit every country in the world. Her experiences around the world have _________ her an impressive (令人钦佩的) 260K Instagram (照片墙) followers by May 2019. Lexie _________ North Korea, which _________ her 196th country visited. Just take a second to think about how impressive visiting 196 _________ in 21 years is, more than half of which were visited in the last three years. Here’s how she _________ it.

Lexie Alford says she started _________ for her goal at the age of 12—she put away her pocket money in the bank. The goal was to visit all 196 completely independent countries, and on her blog she writes that she _________ the earlier Guinness World Record for Youngest Person to Travel to Every Country by over three years.

Lexie’s family owns a travel company in California that they’ve _________ run for over 30 years, which encouraged her love of __________.

Lexie’s biggest __________ for completing this record was that she __________ to show that “every culture harbors (怀有) kindness although there are all kinds of problems” according to her blog. She also __________ that she wanted to break down __________ misunderstandings about woman traveling alone. __________ is a great problem for many young women who want to travel long term. __________, Alford wanted to show that women can travel to the Middle East or travel to countries in Africa that are __________ considered to be unsafe for women.

Lexie is __________ to have the chance to travel around the world. __________ only for a few short days, she got to get a better knowledge of many __________ countries and ways of living.

【推荐3】My first stop was Paris. I decided to _______it on foot in order to experience the romantic and artistic _______as much as possible. There were plenty of small shops of art works, chocolate and bars _______were well decorated(装饰)_______an artistic style.

After walking for an hour and a half, I finally reached the well-known Eiffel Tower._______, when I saw it in reality for the first time, it didn't look as breath-taking as I had _______. It looked more like an ugly thing _______of brown rusted irons. While I was sitting on a bench to rest, an old man's voice drew my_______,"Bonjour!"(‘Hi' in English) When I turned _______, I found the voice came from an elderly French man. I responded(回应), ________, "Bonjour!" and started to ________him up and down. He couldn't speak ________English, so we talked to each other, ________among English, French and body language. Travelling alone in a foreign country made me ________, so I tried to avoid giving ________any personal information when strangers ________me. Luckily, the elderly man turned out to be friendly. Afterwards, he ________some impressive places to me while we were walking along the River Seine. We said goodbye to each other when it became dark.

I was about to return to the hotel ________something shiny in the dark sky caught my eye. The ________rusty iron Eiffel Tower suddenly became a diamond in the dark night. At that moment, I finally understood why it was ________an extraordinary landmark of Paris.

【推荐2】The Silk Road is a name given to the trade routes that connected Europe and the Mediterranean with the Asian world. The route got its _______ because the early Chinese _______ silk along it. In the course of time, medicine, perfumes, spices and livestock found their way between continents.

The Chinese leaned to _______ silk thousands of years ago. For a long time they were the_______ ones who knew how to make this material. It was so precious that only the emperor, his family and his highest advisers were_______ to wear clothes made of it. For a long time the Chinese _______ guarded this secret.

The ancient Romans were the first Europeans who became _______ this wonderful material.

Trading _______ often with Indians as middlemen who traded silk with the Chinese in _______ for gold and silver which they got from the Romans.   

Travelling along the route was ________ The hot desert, high mountains and sandstorms made travelling a rough business. Most of the ________ along the Silk Road were carried by caravans (运输队).

Over the centuries people ________ along the ancient route and many cities appeared. Then there were fewer hardships, but by no means was it ________.

In the early Middle Ages traffic along the route decreased because of the fall of the Roman Empire. But trading along the Silk Road became ________ again between the 13th and 14th centuries, when the Mongols controlled central Asia. Because ________ sea routes to Asia were discovered, the Silk Road lost its importance during the Age of Exploration.

【推荐3】Leif Erickson reached North America around the year 1000, but the attempt to explore was started slowly. It would be five centuries _______ other Europeans landed on that continent.

Why were Europeans the ones to _______ to the American? The Chinese and Arabs had the _______ and technology to sail across the seas. _______ of them tool regular voyages in the Indian Ocean and the Asian Pacific for trade. But exploration? By the mid-15th century China had followed the closed-door policy to _______ itself from the rest of the world. The Arabs, with access to the minerals and spices (香料) of Africa and the Far East, saw no _______ to journey into the unknown.

Europe _______ needed gold and silver; its mines could not meet the demand for coinage. Ottoman Turks blocked the routes across the land to Asia. Only the sea held the _______ of new wealth.

With the return of Magellan’s ships in 1522 from its voyage around the world, the belief was _______ that the oceans were interconnected, promising the age of discovery. The English, as well as the Spanish, Portuguese and French, ________ themselves to finding the “river of the west” through North America to the east.

【推荐2】The fact that your friends and peers have tattoos is one of the reasons why many young people get tattoos. Actually, peer pressure, media influence, and personal expression are some of the common _______for wearing tattoos today.

The desire to be part of a group, to be _______by one's friends or peers, can have a great influence on what a person does. Sometimes, wearing a tattoo can be a sign that you belong to a certain_______. Gangs often use special clothes and tattoos to_______their particular group. For example, in one gang all the _______may wear green army jackets and have large "Xs" tattooed on their arms. It is not only gangs that have this type of_______"uniform". When a young person's friends are all wearing tattoos, that person is likely to do the _______thing.

Another big influence behind the _______of tattoos is the media. Tattoos are shown by a wide variety of media _______. They can be seen on lots of famous sports heroes and fashion models in __________, on newspapers, on TV and so on. People are familiar with these media images that link __________to ideas of wealth, success, and status tattoo for the __________of fashion or status value. As a result, many people get a tattoo for its fashion and status value.Besides, many people wear tattoos in order to show their __________. A musician in a rock band may get a tattoo of a guitar on the arm. Some environmentalists may tattoo pictures of endangered animals, and __________may tattoo each other's names over their hearts. So a tattoo can be a public sign to show what is __________in a person's life.

【推荐3】Paintings and sculptures can be a(n) ______ for the eyes of visitors to art museums, but today they are also considered to be an unconventional ______ for people with mental illness.

Last month, a group of Canadian doctors started to write a brand-new kind of prescription (处方) which gives patients free ______ to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Nathalie Bondil, a museum’s general director, ______ that being in contact with culture and arts can help with ____. Each prescription will allow not only the ______ to go into the art museums but also their families or friends to ______ them. In the museum, visitors can ______ the artworks, and take part in a wide range of activities There’s increasing evidence that the works of art, ______ the works of art describing nature, can have ______ effects on people with fear，depression and ______.

In 2017, the U.K.’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts. Health and Well-being also released a report stating that “it’s time to ______ the powerful contributions the arts can make to our health”. Is it possible for art to help overall health?

We may not know the answer yet. Only time can ______. But one thing is ______ ,that is, more and more people today are ______ of the idea that “art is good medicine”.