【推荐1】21-year-old Joe McGrath received a strange Facebook message. Someone asked if he ________to go on holiday to Spain with a group of________for free! McGrath thought it was a ________.

But it turned out the________was legitimate （合情理的）. A group of friends were looking for someone to take the place of another mate, who shares the same________with Joe McGrath and had dropped out of a pre-booked holiday, to take a mad________to Majorca.

The message read: “Hi Joe. Would you________coming on holiday with a group of nice strangers if they had already arranged（安排）flights for you and an all-inclusive hotel?”

“It’s our friend Nathan’s 30th birthday and we ________to throw him a surprise holiday   break in Majorca.   Unluckily, our friend Joe McGrath   can’t ________, but we have   already   booked it all up for him.”

Although they ________15 other Joe McGraths on social media, the 21-year-old from Manchester, England, was the only one to reply and finally ________ to go on the paid-for trip.

“At first I was ________ the holiday,” McGrath said, “After speaking to Dan, one of the     group, on the phone, I realized he was a(n) ________ person and the friends were real, and this holiday was ________.”

In the end, McGrath decided to leave for the moment and drove to Bristol to ________ the nine strangers. “When I turned up at Dan’s house and it was all dark I was a bit ________ but as soon as I met him it was_______. There was no awkwardness（尴尬）really.”

“They were a lovely group of people! I ________ every minute of it.”

McGrath said he is already ________ to visit his new friends again and has invited them to Manchester, where he lives, to take them on a night out to express ________ to them.

【推荐2】Brad Ryan and his 85-year-old grandma, Joy Ryan, are nearing the finish line on a goal they once thought was impossible: Visiting all national parks together.

The duo (二人组) kicked off their _________ in October 2015, when Brad was looking for a way to spend a two-day weekend. He said the idea _________ from a conversation he had with “Grandma Joy” about his past adventures on the Appalachian Trail. “I felt sorry that she was always _________ vicariously (间接感受到地) through my stories,” Brad said. “And so just knowing that she had never seen _________ and mountains and the oceans and these _________ wild places on Earth, it just felt like a _________ that I had to her to make sure that she had some memories to take away in her life story as well.” Brad began _________ their adventures on the social media in 2019, and they quickly _________ a large number of followers.

“You don’t assume your grandma going with you on a camping trip is going to be anything but _________,” Brad said. “That was my ____________. That was my misperception (误解) of what age means. More ____________, her spirit was good enough for her to go traveling. “It’s been a ____________ adventure; it really has,” Grandma Joy said. “It’s really been a beautiful time. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything,”

As for ____________ from Brad and Grandma Joy, they encourage everyone to ____________ opportunities for exploration. “We realize that not everybody is going to be able to travel to every national park, “Brad said. “But there is some adventure to be found in every ____________ of the country and we hope that people will go out and seek that adventure.”

【推荐3】As an immigrant from China, my mother loves Chinese culture deeply. She _________ Chinese food every night. She prefers to do it herself at home because she thinks the local restaurants aren’t authentic. _________, strangely enough, she likes to take my son to Panda Express to have _________ with her friends who are also from China. She is even _________ to point it out whenever they are at a food court.

Why is American Chinese food not _________ among some Chinese Americans? How is American Chinese food not better than _________ Chinese food? I can’t _________ that it’s not as good as authentic Chinese food. In fact, authentic Chinese food really tastes better while American Chinese food _________ to have food with its own taste — they are right for different persons. It’s important to _________ American Chinese food from authentic Chinese food. They are not the same __________ and have their own characteristics. So they should be treated __________. That’s why my mother thinks that Panda Express is not very authentic, but can still __________ it. Actually, American Chinese food is often created by Chinese immigrants according to their own preferences. As people from various countries have differences in their __________, it is changing.

My mother has a deep feeling for authentic Chinese food and restaurants, so I decide to open a restaurant where she and other immigrants can feel the __________ of Chinese family dinner. My son says he’ll learn Chinese cooking skills from me, which, I think, should be __________ from age to age. Likewise, I’ll also pass on the Chinese food culture to the world.