【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 sure what to do next. ______, 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 ______ that travel is about learning and observing different cultures. “It’s far too easy to go into a(n) _______ 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 knowing anyone or anything. Those people and things ______ in those very places to which I had ______ a visit.

This time, I promised to myself that I would be a ______ student traveler. 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1】From the first week of high school, my best friend, Trisha, was always going out with the popular girls. _______ I thought, “It’s okay; she’s just making new friends.” But soon I realized that Trisha wasn’t interested in me any more.

One day, I told Trisha that we should ________ pretending to be friends when we really weren’t anymore. I wasn’t trying to make her sad, ________ she was. After that, Trisha started talking about me behind my back, telling people that I was ________. Some of our friends ________ with her. I felt like she was taking them away from me.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. Finally, I ________ a picture of Trisha and drew lines on her face. I wrote, “I ________ this person” across the bottom. And then I did something I’ll always regret: I put it on a website that was ________. I felt good at that time.

A week later, Trisha’s mom saw the ________. She called my mom, who made me take it off the website right away. However, it was already too ________. Lot’s of people had seen it and I was in a lot of ________.

The whole day, I felt ________. I had to say sorry to Trisha face to face. Though she accepted my apology, she was spill angry with me.

Posting that picture was one of the worst ________ I’ve ever made. I realize now I could have found a much better way to deal with my feelings. If I’d just told Trisha how much I ________ her, maybe things would have turned out ________.

【推荐2】John Kerr and his 86-year-old grandma, Sandy Kerr, are nearing the finish line on a goal they once thought was impossible: Visiting all national parks together.

They kicked off their _________ in September 2023, when John was looking for a way to spend a two-day weekend. He said the idea _________ from a conversation he had with “Grandma Sandy” 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,” John 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.” John 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 _________,” John said. “That was my __________. That was my misunderstanding of what age means.” More __________, her spirit was good enough for her to go traveling. “It’s been a __________ adventure; it really has,” Grandma Sandy said. “It’s really been a beautiful time. And I wouldn’t trade it for anything,”

As for __________ from John and Grandma Sandy, they encourage everyone to __________ opportunities for exploration. “We realize that not everybody is going to be able to travel to every national park,” John 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】When Krishnamurthy was a teenager, he witnessed a pond near his home full of trash. The_________the pond inspired him to become a conservationist.

In 2007, Krishnamurthy _________the EFI--a group that restores freshwater lakes and ponds across India. The team works to_________the garbage and restores the natural habitats of birds, frogs and native plants, giving wildlife a chance to _________. Over the last 13 years, EFI has _________restoration work on 112 lakes and ponds.

EFT's_________ goal is to restore lakes and ponds, but the organization's work benefits India's water_________on a small scale， because restoring water body is of great _________in recharging （补给） groundwater. In fact, groundwater is _________to India, accounting for 80% of its water supply.

__________overusing water is reducing reserves at a worrying rate. Government is urged to take some measures，but Krishnamurthy believes__________have a great role to play. That's why he wants to__________what he calls water literacy（水文知识） and raise people's__________of water's importance in people's daily lives. He points to the fact that groundwater in India is used__________，and a lot of it is wasted finally.

Currently, EFI is facing a__________when it comes to handling waste. Up to 95% of the solid waste it________from the ponds ends up in landfill. The group is researching on various__________for reusing and   recycling more of the trash.

Despite the challenges, he feels________ not only for India but for the world. He__________people to care for the lakes and ponds, and to care for the needs of wildlife. With the right__________ ， everyone can make a difference on our planet.

【推荐1】In December 2004, I had just become a professional photographer and was working on a project about the Chao-Ley tribe on a small island in southern Thailand.

One morning, I was due to _________ with a group of six Chao-Ley fishermen in a small boat. The sea was totally _________.

About 20 minutes after our departure, one of the fishermen pointed to a small white spot far in the distance. It was getting bigger and bigger very quickly. This was a tsunami wave _________ through the ocean like a tornado. We were _________. I began to feel really _________.

At some point the captain took control. He told the six of us where to sit, so we would _________ out the boat. My _________ was in my backpack. I wanted to _________ the scene, but I couldn’t. Any _________ would imbalance the boat.

Suddenly there was a huge noise. The giant wave hit the boat, but in the split second of ____________, the incredibly skilled captain ____________ to swerve (使突然转向) us up and onto the wave. We ____________ it for a few seconds. Then the boat glided from the ____________ of the wave down into safe waters.

I’ve been going back to Southeast Asia almost every year since. The ____________ I wanted to take on the boat remains “the one that got away” — I think every photographer has one. But mine ____________ my life.