1 . A 23-year-old woman has achieved an unbelievable feat that many of us dream of —visiting every country on Earth.

Lexie Alford was born into a family of travel agents, which gave her the opportunity to _______ places such as Cambodia, Dubai and Egypt during her childhood, according to Forbes magazine. She began saving up at age 12 to _______ her goal of visiting all countries. By her 18^th birthday, she had traveled to 72 nations. In October, 2016, she realized she could see the _______ nations on her list in time to set an official record. Many people _______ her travel on social media platform Instagram, so she decided to chase the world record partly to _______ others. “Honestly, at the beginning, I _______ wanted to push the _______ of what I thought I could do with my life and see as much of the world as possible in the _______,” she told Forbes. “It wasn’t until things started getting really _______ that I realized I was inspiring people around me, especially the ____________.”

“I also loved visiting Northern Pakistan, for the natural beauty of the mountains and kindness of the locals were astonishing,” Lexie Alford said. “The most pleasant surprise about traveling to all these misunderstood areas of the world was that the countries that I had the ____________ expectation for ____________ being the most incredible.”

“My ____________ for young people is to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to do. If you want to travel, you have to ____________ sacrifices to travel around the world. And it’s only a matter of ____________ until you can make it a reality.”

2 . Travelers to new cities are often told to start their trip with a bus tour. The thinking is that they can then _________ to the places that interested them. Nonsense! What you see from the _________ of a moving bus is unreal and completely removed from the authentic sights, sounds and _________ outside.

Be adventurous! The best way to experience any place is _________ and with absolutely no travel _________. Simply go wherever your feet and your _________ lead you. You eventually will get to the same sites that are on the bus tour-the museums, the monuments city hall-but will have _________ much more. You will have felt the contemporary life of the city.

“But what if I get lost?” People might ask. No one gets _________ lost in a major city. Eventually, you can find your way back to a well-known location. If it frightens you to be “lost”, just find a taxi and go back to where you _________. However, the nicest things can happen if you get lost. You stop at a sidewalk cafe to sit and __________. You ask instructions of the local people at the __________ table. And even if they don’t speak your language, your trip becomes more __________ because of the experience.

So next time you see a poster advertising an introductory bus tour, __________ your money. __________, wander on your own. I promise (承诺) you a time you’ll __________ with great pleasure.

3 . When I was 25 years old, I had a big dream in my mind. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _______. So I left my hometown with great confidence and arrived in Cape Town, not really _______ what to do next._______, before my trip actually started, I met a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel tips I had ever received. “Be like a(n) _______ on your way around the world.”

It sounded _______, but it really changed my idea about travelling. He helped me _______ that travel is about learning and observing local _______. It’s far too easy to go into a new country and believe your ways are better. “But if you study, ask questions, and try to _______ the locals, you’ll have far richer _______.” he promised me.

On other vacations, ________ I was on my tour way to Cancun, I was ________ a tourist. I only stayed there for a week to see the sights and place of interest and then left. The culture didn’t ________ me. I left the cities and towns without really knowing a anyone or anything that existed (存在) in those places to which I had paid a visit.

This time, I promised to myself that I would a ________ traveler. After seven months of ________ backpacking in Africa from Cape Town to Cairo, I realized that having a student-like mindset (观念模式) helped extend my trip and helped me learn a lot, which ________ me more than any other trips ever did to me.

4 . For more than 20 years I have been traveling the world, preferring often to spend a year or two in different countries rather than to just visit as a tourist. It has become a big part of my _______ as an adult and _______ how I see the world and myself.

My first _______ of this amazing life was when I was 19 years old. I was _______ among a small group of college classmates to spend a year abroad. This was long before people could travel the world _______ through social media like Facebook and Instagram. In order to see a place, you had to go there and _______ it   firsthand.

Living _______ can be exciting. I thought it would be easier because I _______ the language, but I enjoyed the little differences between the British and American culture and language. For instance, instead of garbage the British called it "rubbish"; instead of favor they _______ it "favour".

But there were also ________ that year too. One of my classes was called "Europe Since 1870". In the U.S., I would have expected an introductory history class, but in England, I was ________ to have already known the       history; now was the time to analyze it. That ________ I not only had to learn the history as I went along, but also I had to try to write a paper explaining why certain events happened as they did. I know now that I was thrown into the deep ________, in a completely different and far more challenging environment, and it was natural that I wouldn't understand everything easily. Despite this, I don't ________ anything about my time in London. Even through painful experiences, we learn to ________.

Sometimes the difficult times made me sad and homesick. But luckily that was not as important as the ________ experience I had getting to know people from all over the world. I met dozens of interesting people from places like France, Greece and Germany in Europe, to Rwanda. Palestine and Australia. Learning how to make friends with people from different cultures and backgrounds was really fun, and these new friends helped put a(n) ________ to the countries they represented (代表).

As I finished the ________ year, I was torn inside about leaving London after such a life-changing experience.I learned so much about myself as a young woman and an American. When I ________ to my college for my final year, friends and professors saw a(n) ________ me. I had more maturity and self-awareness that I hadn't had before. It was just the beginning of a future of world travel and a love of different people and cultures.