1 . One of my first international trips as an adult was traveling around the Caribbean (加勒比海). I_________ my hotel in Jamaica (牙买加) and asked for a recommendation for a local place to eat. The receptionist told me that under no _________ should I go into the town because it was really_________

I_________ my options: Did I really want to spend all my time on the beach without getting to know a single _________? I was a very_________ traveler and very young, but there was only one answer to my question: Absolutely not. So out I went.

The poverty hit me in the face. After only seeing fancy resorts, the reality was hard to _________. A few locals _________ me and were super curious as to what I was doing there alone since most tourists did not go there. I told them I was interested in meeting them and experiencing their_________. And just like that, I was __________. After meeting more natives, __________ home-made food, and dancing the night away, I realized how they wanted to make me feel welcome and they __________ did. With having so little, they still shared it with me in a gesture of generosity.

I could not resist to think about how tourist income__________ sharply for big companies annually, while the local inhabitants have to be thankful if they get a job that pays minimum wage. From then on, I always looked for locally owned accommodation, restaurants, guides, and__________. Sustainable development, with everything it involves, became a motto for me and changed the very __________ of the way I travel.

3 . 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.

4 . 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 _______. “It’s far too easy to go into a new 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 _______, ” he promised me.

On other trips since I was on my tour way to Cancun, I didn’t know the man so I was just a________. I only stayed there for a week to see the sights 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 ________ in those very places to which I had paid 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.

5 . Last summer, I travelled to Meixian County with my friends. It is a small county at the foot of Taibai Mountain in Shanxi Province. We stayed there for one week and I____ my vacation because of the beautiful scenery at the top of the mountain.

I will____ forget the day when we climbed the main peak (山顶). The ____in that area changes very quickly: it was sunny in the early morning when we set out, ____ it began to rain heavily when we were only halfway up.

Soon,we were all____ and some of us wanted to go home. They said, “There is nothing____ here. We came to see the scenery,____the pouring rain!” However, the guide____, “Since we have got wet already, why not just go on with our journey?”

So we carried on up the mountain and,____we even noticed, the rain stopped and the sun was smiling again. When we reached the top of the peak, the view was unique (独特的).

Up there, it was bright and clear. The sky was____and the air was fresh. The gentle wind made us feel cool. All the clouds were just like waves in the ocean, ____ and falling under our feet. We could only see the peaks of mountains, as if they were ____ floating sparsely (稀疏的) in the ocean. It was a really magical experience.

While we were enjoying the scene, the guide said ____,“You see, I knew that there would be no rain above the clouds.”

It is ____. While it may rain below the clouds, the sun is still there above them.

You will never see the sun ____ you don’t try your best to climb to the top of the mountain. If we had stopped and gone home when the rain was very heavy, we would never have seen the beautiful scenery ____ the clouds. I think this is also true in ____.

As the song says, “You won’t see the rainbow unless you have gone through the thunder and storm.” I think in the____, whenever I have any difficulties in my life, I will remember the____from the top of Taibai Mountain and the ____ which touched my heart deeply: There is no rain above the clouds.