Traveling is a very good activity. When you are tired of your work and when you can have a holiday, you can go to beautiful places     1     (enjoy) the beauty of nature and the special character of other cities. You can take in fresh air, visit some places of interest, meet different people and make friends     2       them. If you do so, you will forget your tiredness and trouble and build up your strength. As a result, you will feel     3     (relax) and you will have the energy to take up the new tasks     4     (wait) for you.

But sometimes, traveling is     5     (actual) not an enjoyable thing. For example, when the bus or car you take     6     (have) a problem, you just sit in it and are angry at the     7       (long) of time you have to wait. What’s more, the weather can be changeable. When you     8     (climb) a mountain, it may rain suddenly. You may be caught in the rain and may catch     9     cold. The worst thing is that you may have your money stolen and you may have an injury. All these are terrible things     10     can happen to a tourist.

【推荐2】New York City is one of the Largest cities on the globe,     1    it consists of five districts: Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island. New York City     2    has a very unique personality is very popular with people. After all, you can sense its    3    (special) at the first glance: countless skyscrapers, busy people    4    (move)about street corners and nightly skyline brightened by flash light. If you are willing       5    (explore), New York City can never be    6    place that kills you. Even    7    normal days, you can meet people of different colors with different languages    8    (speak).     9    (additional), you never go short of any particular food or entertainment, no matter what country    10    comes from.

“Climb Mount Tai and the whole world looks small.” Confucius once declared from the summit.     1     is a challenge to tourists is the climbing to the top of Mount Tai. It takes them three to seven hours     2     (walk) the whole way.

For thousands of years, Mount Tai has been a source of     3    (inspire) for poets and thinkers. The mountain is in the east, and in Chinese culture east     4    (regard) as a sacred direction because that is where the sun and moon rise. Therefore, Mount Tai is the most holy of China’s five sacred mountains.

In the morning, we got up at 4 a.m. to position ourselves for the sunrise. From Jade Emperor Peak     5    (locate) among hundreds of others, we were fortunate enough to see a clear sunrise. After that, we hiked for about five hours     6     the mountain and through Peach Blossom Valley, a beautiful walk through     7    (flower) peach trees and pools of water.

The greenery up the mountain made for     8     fantastic climb, and the second-day valley hike was     9    (sure) to me the highlight, and not just because there were no steps up. It was     10     (peace), allowing me to enjoy the greater vision I had gathered from the top.

My hometown is a small municipality(自治镇) called Aschach in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. The town     1    (locate) in the Danube Valley and has a population of 2,190. First     2    (mention) in the year 777, Aschach has a historic center with beautiful houses and courtyards, including a castle. Tourists can enjoy architectural styles from the Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance. As Austria is pretty small, we can     3    (easy) travel to many other European countries. For example, I can drive to Germany within one hour. To the Czech Republic it just takes me 30 minutes.

In general, Austrian people pay a lot of attention to the environment and try     4    (live) in harmony with nature. Many of them grow     5    own vegetables or buy     6    (agriculture) products from nearby farmers.

I     7    (live) in Beijing for a long time up to now.     8    I miss most in the Danube are the starry sky, my family and friends. Aschach is a wonderful place and every time I go home, I feel relaxed and calm. It is one of the prettiest     9    (village) in Austria and visitors from all around the world come to have a tour     10    it every year.

After camping in the Redwood Forest and visiting the wine country of Napa Valley, I    1    (definite) felt pleased to be back in San Francisco, where there are many beautiful old buildings—man     2    ( sit ) on top of big mountains, offering great     3     (view) of the city and the ocean.

In the morning, I walked around the downtown in the Mission District, appreciating the street art and then,     4    (eat) some delicious Mexican-Chinese noodles. There is     5     real mix of cultures here.

In the afternoon, I paid a visit    6    a local museum which showed the historical changes in California. The gold rush     7     (start) by the discovery of gold near San Francisco in 1848 attracted over 300,000 people from all over the world. The museum did a good job showing how America     8    (build) by immigrants from different countries and cultures.

In the evening, I toured Chinatown,     9    there were so many nice cafes and restaurants     10    (choose) from, and enjoyed great food in a Cantonese restaurant.