1 . Many people want to buy the newest gadget (小玩意儿), the fastest car and the most expensive watch, but what are these things really worth?

For some people, these things _______ them to achieve status (社会地位). They are cool because they have a cool car, or they are _______ at the newest Xbox game. Lots of people say that _______ new things makes them happy. They _______ having new, pretty, impressive things. _______, the problem is that people can’t remain _______ and the feeling you get when you buy something new fades . There’ll always be another _______ iPhone. You’ll stop liking your car. Your friend will get Beats headphones in a more _______ colour and they’ll look so much nicer! Things get old and out of _______, and someone else will always have something better.

So, what can you buy and stay happy with? The research ________ that the best thing to spend your extra ________ on is doing things like travelling, learning to cook or learning a language. What about going to the theatre or climbing a mountain?

In the long term, people are happier with money they spend on ________ than on things. You forget what shoes you wore, but you ________ running a marathon! When you do new things or things you enjoy, you ________ life experience and memories. You can share adventures with people and tell stories. Furthermore, it is always ________ when you meet someone who has done the ________ thing as you can swap stories. You have an instant ________with this person and can have an amazing time ________ the things you’ve done. Even if you don’t enjoy the experience, you can ________ something and often a little while later you see the positives of it. At the very least, it’s a story to tell — maybe even an amusing one.

So forget about designer clothes and fancy gadgets — a new skill or ________ lasts longer!

2 . The lazy beach vacations and study-abroad years are gone because of the pandemic （流行病）. Many, who believe travel is in their genes, find it _________ to be kept in the same place for so long. My friend James is one of them and is growing bored and upset, _________ for the old travelling days. How to pull through the depressing situation? There are many ways to answer the question, but “ being _________ is not one of them.

People always have a strong _________ to be on the go. However, it shows our true ability when that demand can't be _________ instantly. Travel is a good way to meet new people and_________ new things, but we have _________ if we can't make it.

We can go off the _________ path and travel in the off-season. By connecting with communities and spending our money in ways that support _________, it will be a more meaningful way to __________ the differences that make the world colorful.

We can plan a trip instead while we can't __________ be there. “Expectations play a __________ role in our life. And our future — mindedness can be a source of __________ if we know good things are__________ In every way, travel is a great thing to __________, ” said Matthew Killingsworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. So __________ a trip is nearly as enjoyable as actually taking one. Making plans is its own __________ It makes us remember there is a big, __________ world out there.

Many of us, me included, have taken what we have for granted. Tom Swick, a travel writer, tells me he__________ to view travel as a routine. "Now, I look forward to experiencing it as a__________, ” says he.