【推荐1】If you have no mobile phone, no computer, and no Internet with you, what will you do with your free time? Will you go _______?

Harley, a 15-year-old girl from California, US, stayed calm. She did something different. Her mobile phone didn’t work one day, so she decided to try and live _______ it. She took a six-week summer travel with some friends.

Harley and ten other teenagers rode their bikes 3,000 miles across the States. With two college students as guides, they started from a beach in Georgia on June 23. They travelled through small towns in the south, they ________ in the mountains.

It’s not easy to find a comfortable place to sleep. “It was too hot in the south, and super wet, too.” Harley said. And mosquitoes (蚊子) were around them ________ when sleeping outside.

Although there were ________, no one left the team. “Everyone was hard-working and did everything for the group,” Harley said. “We learned how to live with other people and look after each other.”

From these things, they not only ________ themselves, but also opened their eyes. “Southern people are really nice,” Harley said. “Small communities were just that. It’s a nice change of what most of us are used to. It’s how the rest of the country lives. It’s a whole new world.”

【推荐2】Last summer I went to Corsica with my friends. I had never been there before. It was my ________ visit to the island! It took us eight hours from Toulon to Ajaccio ________ ship. We played card games to kill time.

________ we got there, I was surprised at the weather. It was already October! But it was still very hot, we just needed ________ T-shirts and shorts. We went to the beach to enjoy the sunshine and some of ________ friends even went swimming in the sea. We had a picnic, went for ________ long walk along the coast.

The next day we ________ the local train to another beautiful city named Corte. We ________ visited the citadel (城堡) and museum. We also enjoyed the beautiful views (景色) of the city.

The food in Corsica ________ fantastic and we visited the market to taste something delicious. We also went to some local ________ for dinner. At the end of the trip, we were a little sad to leave and I hope to return to Corsica again one day.

Kate and Jim are wife and husband. Like many New Age Travelers, they don’t live in a house, _______ in a truck. For about three years _______ moved around the country with other travelers. Now their daughter, Lucy, is four years old, and Kate wants _______ their life and come back to the city.

But Jim likes to _______ his life travelling around. The thinks they should live on the road. “We have a lot of good friends around us. We live in the open air. _______ fresh the air is! If we like a place, we stay _______ some time. If we don’t like it, we move on. I don’t like living in cities. You must live in _______ small box and you should work hard for all your time to get enough money to live. That’s not life. We should _______ away from cities. Lucy is a nice girl. She _______ learn real things about life with us on the road,” Jim says.

“Yes, I find this way of life is ________ than city life. Travelling is interesting in spring and summer. But ________ is always difficult. It is so cold that Lucy gets ill in every winter. The most ________ thing, I think, is that Lucy needs a good education (教育) in school and she ________ have her own friends and a normal life like other kids. That ________ we must live in one place. Shall we move ________ to the city or not?” says Kate.