【推荐1】The days of the camera-carrying tourist may be numbered. Insensitive travellers are being ordered to _______ pointing their cameras at local residents. Tour companies selling expensive trips to remote corners of the world have become increasingly annoyed at the _______ of visitors upsetting locals. Now one such operator plans to ban clients from taking any photographic equipment on holidays. Julian Matthews is the director of Discovery Initiatives, a company that is working hand-in-hand with other organisations to offer holidays combining high adventure with working on environmental projects.

Matthews says he is providing 'holiday without _______, insisting that Discovery Initiatives is not a tour operator but an environmental support company. Clients are referred to as 'participants'. 'We see ourselves as the next step on from eco-tourism, which is merely a(n) _______ form of sensitive travel-ours is a more active approach.'

However, says Matthews, there is a price to pay. ' I am planning to introduce tours with a total ban on cameras because of the damage they do to our relationships with _______. I have seen some _______ things, such as a group of six tourists arriving at a remote village in the South American jungle, each with a video camera attached to their face. That sort of thing tears me up inside. Would you like somebody to come into your home and take a photo of you cooking? A camera is like weapon; it puts up a barrier and you lose all the _______ that comes through body language, which _______ means that the host communities are denied access to the so-called cross-cultural exchange.'

Matthews' views reflect a growing _______ among some tour companies at the increasingly rude behaviour of wealthy tourists. Chris Parrott, of Journey Latin America, says: 'We tell our clients that indigenous（土著的）people are often shy about being __________ but we certainly don't tell them not to take a camera. If they take pictures without asking, they may find themselves having tomatoes thrown at them.'

Crispin Jones, of Exodus, the overland truck specialist, says: 'We don't have a(n) __________; but, should cameras cause offence, our tour leaders will make it quite clear that they cannot be __________. Clients tend to do what they are told.'

Earth-watch, which pioneered the __________ of active eco-tourism by sending paying volunteers to work on scientific projects around the world, does not ban cameras, but operates strict rules on their use. Ed Wilson, the marketing director of the company, say: ' Some people use the camera as a barrier; it allows them to distance themselves from the reality of what they __________. I would like to see tourists __________ their cameras for once, rather than trying to record everything they see.'

【推荐3】We have been driving in fog all morning, but the fog is lifting now. The little seaside villages are _______, one by one. “There is my grandmother’s house,” I say, _______ across the bay to a shabby old house.

I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage(朝圣) with Lisa, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing(追溯) _______ memory for me. Lisa was one of the mobile children, _______ from house to house in childhood. She longs for a sense of _______, and so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors _______ for 200 years.

We soon _______ by the house and I tell her what it was like here, the memories _______ back, swift as the tide (潮水).

Suddenly, I long to walk again in the _______ where I was once so gloriously a child. It still ________ a member of the family, but has not been lived in for a while. We cannot go into the house, but I can still walk ________ the rooms in memory. Here, my mother ________ in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. I can still see the enthusiastic family ________ into and out of the house. I could never have enough of being ________ them. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lisa ________ attentively as I talk and then says, “So this is where I ________; where I belong.”

She has ________ her roots. To know where I come from is one of the great longings of the human ________. To be rooted is “to have an origin”. We need ________ origin. Looking backward, we discover what is unique in us; learn the ________ of “I”. We must all go home again—in reality or memory.

【推荐1】After over a decade of faithful service, my old desktop computer finally died. With no computer repair places open, my daughter talked me into _________ a new laptop to replace it. What followed was two days of pure frustration. It was like going from driving an old car to _________ the space shuttle.

I looked for the old e-mail _________ I used to use only to find that it wasn’t on this model. When I tried to download the _________ version again it wouldn’t work. Then there were the difficulties of transferring all of my old stories that I had _________ on a USB drive. The laptop computer’s _________ new programs were an icon(图标) minefield that I had to find the way. Each time I accidentally _________ one of them, it changed everything on my screen and I had to work hard to figure out how to change them back. Finally after two days, I think we have _________ the new computer to do the few simple things I need it to do so I can _________ the thou-sand other functions that I have no use for.

What I did learn from all of this is that when it comes to computers and __________, I want to keep things simple. I don’t want to wake up in the morning and __________ to my devices. __________, I want to pet my dogs, take them outside, and watch the sun __________ rise over the mountains here. Life is simple. It is we who make things __________. I want to spend my time and my talents making this world better not __________.

【推荐2】You need to send a quick text to your mom to tell her soccer practice is canceled. In an effort not to get _________, you reach slowly into your backpack. You are _________ about not pressing the wrong button that will make your task known by the teacher. With the phone on your lap, you try not to _________ as you text: “soccer canceled!”

Send. You slip it into your pocket. But wait . . . your friend Lucy’s hair made her look _________ when you passed her in the hall. It’s _________ to wait until lunch. So, you repeat the secret process of texting: “Fix _________. It’s ugly!” Now, not only have you just _________ two whole possibly important minutes of your teacher’s lecture, but you have also furthered the _________ of your spelling and vocabulary.

The way we type when we use virtual communication devices _________ the way we spell — not just when we’re in a __________. Have you ever caught yourself writing “u” instead of “you” in an essay for school? We have become accustomed to the __________ use of non-standard abbreviations (缩写词).

In a world where instant satisfaction is everything, we simply do not take the time to __________ the few extra letters, __________ unfamiliar words. Seldom do we see the word “overjoyed” for “happy”, “morose” for “sad” in a text. We must __________ our vocabulary and learn to use advanced words if we expect to make a __________ of exams relating to our future and get job opportunities.

【推荐1】It had been cloudy, chilly, rainy and gray for three days. It was November. The colorful autumn leaves had reached their   _________ and were now falling fast on the hillsides _________ the skinny skeletons of bare trees.

I pulled my jacket tighter around me as I walked through the cold winds and _________ the leaves flying above the ground. I tried to smile but couldn’t. _________ delightful intentions, the dark, depressing days were upsetting me. As I walked on through the fallen leaves, my _________ slowly got wet. My cold toes didn’t _________ me as much as my damp spirits. My body was tired. My energy was low.

_______ I felt something warm all of a sudden. A break in the clouds had _________   and sunlight was shining through it down to the earth once again. I closed my eyes and turned my face to the sweet_________. Its warmth washed over me. I   __________ and saw the remaining leaves on the trees sparkling in the sunlight. It made their colors even brighter and more beautiful.

I felt my __________ rising again as well. I smiled and thanked nature for this every day __________.

Those few minutes of light had __________ me with joy. I felt renewed, ready to   __________ light and love to the world myself once again. I walked back home __________ to nature and amazed at what a little break in the clouds can do.

In our lives here we all __________ times when the world seems cold, dark, and gray. It is in these times when nature __________ us to break through the clouds ourselves and share our light with the world.

It doesn’t __________ much either. A simple hug, a kind word, a caring note can warm and uplift another’s spirits. A helping hand, a shared smile, a tiny act of __________ can shine light into another’s heart.

When the gray days come then don’t just sit in the dark. __________ break through the clouds! Share your love! Let the light shine through you!

【推荐2】I am a recovering perfectionist and learning to play again saved me. Like many children, I remember playing a lot when I was younger and being filled with a sense of openness,________ and joy. My natural state was to be present with myself, enjoying the ________ of play.

Unfortunately, my attitude began ________ from playfulness to perfectionism early on. Instead of being present and enjoying the process, I started ________ performance. The more I did this, the less open, curious and joyful I was. Instead, I grew anxious, critical and ________.

I first remember ________ perfectionist tendencies when I was taking piano lessons in school. I got the idea that I had to perform songs perfectly. I started hating piano and ________ quit. My perfectionism ________ into other areas of my life, too. In school, I pushed myself to get straight A’s, and if I earned anything less, I felt like a ________.

My perfectionism also negatively ________ my relationship with myself and other people. I felt like my life was spinning out of control and that all the rules that once worked no longer ________. I crashed emotionally. That was one of the darkest times of my life. I realized I needed a(n)________   way to approach life.

About this time, my friend Amy and I started taking fencing lessons together. I was quite bad at it, but it didn’t________. Because I had given up perfectionism, I didn’t care anymore about ________ people at fencing class or performing perfect moves.________, I cared about being present with myself in the process and staying open and curious.

I had a(n)________ feeling. I felt free and alive, and I ________ that I had been missing playfulness for many years. Fencing helped me rediscover play and leave perfectionism behind.

I am________ now to practicing playfulness every day and to help others do the same. Playfulness isn’t something we must ________ in childhood. When we practice playfulness, life becomes an adventure, and there is always something more to learn, explore and ________.