【推荐1】When I was 25 years old, I had a big dream in my mind and lots of things in my backpack. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _______ So I left my hometown with great confidence and ______ in Cape Town on a one-way ticket, not really ______ what to do next. Luckily, before my trip actually started, I met a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel ______ I ever received: “Be like a student on your way around the world.”

It sounds ______, but it really changed my mind about travelling. He helped me realize that travel is about learning and observing different ______ “It’s far to easy to go into ______ country for you and believe your ways are better. But if you study, ask questions, and ______ to learn from the locals, you’ll have far richer experience, ” he promised me.

On other trips ______ I was on my tour way to Cancun, I didn’t know the man so I was just a tourist. I only stayed there for a week to see the ______ and places of interest and then left. The culture didn’t ______ me. I left the cities and towns without really ______ anyone or anything. Those people and things existed in those very places to which I had ______ a visit.

This time, I promised myself that I would be a ______ student traveller. After seven months of ______ travelling from Cape Town to Cairo, I returned home. Having a student-like attitude helped me learn a lot. This trip satisfied me more than any other trip ever did to me.

【推荐2】When travelling around the world, I came across a beautiful town called Trancoso in Brazil. The people in the town were friendly and warm. What I ________ liked was that everyone gives the ________ acknowledgement（打招呼）when seeing each other ________ a wave or a stare. So as I was walking down the streets, people gave me the thumbs up. This ________ my day.

When I was lying on the beach, a man walked up to me to sell me some hats. I loved the hats but didn't have any money ________ me. He saw that I was ________ the hats, so he gave me the hat and said he would see me again to get the money and that there was no ________. This was such a(n) ________ way to sell something. Of course I accepted the ________ and still take the hat with me wherever I go because the hat makes me remember how ________ people could be.

Later on that day another man came over to me and asked ________ I wanted to eat in his restaurant. I accepted his offer ________ and followed him. It was the perfect restaurant for the town, ________ ten tables. The dishes were delicious and he paid ________ to each dish's taste and colour. When it was time to ________ he only took cash and I only had a card. With the ________ ATM about seven miles away, I didn't know what to do. He ________ to me and said, "Just pay before you leave town." This was the second time in one day that I had been given something without immediate pay. How surprising it was!

What I ________ from these experiences is that there are people out in the world ________ main focus（关注点）isn't money but making other people happy with their ________.

【推荐3】World Cup soccer fans in Qatar cannot spend all of their time watching matches. So some of them _________ the desert outside Doha for camel rides and _________. They want to have a tourist experience between games. Business is _________ for the animal handlers. They are making much more money than usual. _________, the interest is causing trouble for the camels.

Ali Jaber AI Ali has been in Qatar for 15 years. He grew up loving camels and can _________ them by their faces. On a normal day, his company would _________ at most 50 rides. But in recent weeks, he and his team are giving 500 rides in the morning and 500 in the evening. There is a lot of money _________ in. Al Ali said. “Thank god, but it is a lot of _________.”

Before roads were built, camels were important to _________ and trade in Qatar. Now they are __________ used in racing and giving rides. Al Ali can __________ when they are tired. The camels will sit back down after standing up. In __________ times, the camels can __________ after every five rides, but now, they give 15 or more rides __________. With little time to rest, the camels are __________ by making loud sounds. So don’t make Qatar camels tired and thin.

【推荐2】Lewis B. Smedes once said, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” For years Tom Anderson’s life was withered (枯萎) by the memory of his ________ in an adventure that ________ the death of one of his classmates. He and his wife ________ after six years of marriage. Then the news about Tom Anderson changed. His wife Betty came back; he ________ a fine position.

One day he told me what had changed his life, “I used to think nothing could ________ what I had done. The thought of my ________ would stop me in the middle of a smile. It put a ________ between my wife and me. Then I had an ________ visit from the person I dreaded (恐惧) most to see — the mother of the college classmate who died. ‘ ________ you forgive, you cannot love,’ she said. ‘And without love, life has no meaning. She paused, and then said ________ , ‘You are the only person who hasn’t forgiven Tom Anderson.’ I found there in her eyes ________ to be the person I might have been if her boy had lived. For the first time in my life, I felt ________ to be loved.”

It is only through forgiveness of our mistakes that we gain the ________ to learn from experience. But forgiving our shortcomings doesn’t mean ________ that they exist. On the contrary, it means facing them ________ .

【推荐3】I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13.My parents took us there for camping.On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to EI Capitan, a   ______ rock of 3, 300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew immediately I wanted to climb it.That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since— ______   the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my ______.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of ______ , like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s beyond me why visitors started respecting the place ______ and treated such a beautiful homelike place this way.

I tried ______ trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big.I would spend an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later.Finally, I got so ______ it that I decided something had to change.

As a rock ­climbing guide, I knew nothing about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ______. On that day, more than 300 people ______. Over three days we collected about 6,000   pounds of trash.It was amazing how much we were able to ______. I couldn’t believe the ______ we made—the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330   pounds of trash and ______132 miles of roadway.

I often hear people ______ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ______ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ______. You can’t blame others unless you start with yourself.