1 . Brad Ryan, 38, is taking his 89-year-old grandma Joy Ryan on a tour of all 61 US national parks.

The idea for the________ came in 2015, when Brad told his grandma about a hike he had completed. Joy really________ that she didn’t get to do more of that type of thing and have more________ in life. She grew up in a small town and worked into her 80s without going out to see the world. So when Brad________ to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he called to invite his grandma to________ with him.

As for Grandma Joy, she was ready for that________. “You can just stay in your________ old corner of the world for so long,” she________. “There wasn’t anything there. And so, I just thought it would be________to have an adventure.”

After that first trip, Brad________taking Grandma to national parks. So far, they have visited 21 US national parks.

“Grandma helped me to slow down. She would________ the little things like the color of the mushrooms (蘑菇),” Brad said. “My attention was on goals, like climbing a mountain, but sometimes it’s not all about the________views, it’s about________ those little moments too.”

“I just hope everyone gets some________and realizes your life’s not over. You can always________one more thing,” said Grandma Joy.

4 . The Neelakurinji flower that blooms after a cycle of twelve years was the main attraction behind choosing the Blue Mountains or Western Ghats for the family outing. A long drive along the _________ paths of Kodaikanal was a treat in itself and all the members of the family enjoyed _________ the tender(娇嫩的)green plantation along the road.

The carpet of the purple Neelakurinjis along the hill slopes _________ in front of our eyes as we reached the picnic spot. After freshening up at the restroom of the picnic area, we set out to _________ the forests, through which we would reach the slopes of the Neelakurinji flower meadows. Rain had eased off by then and a magical mist _______ from the top of the mountains.

The soil was _________ but there was no clogging of water(积水), which made hiking through the grassland easy for us. The number of flowers gradually increased and finally we were standing in a purple-flower-laden grassland where soil could not be seen beneath.

We spent a lot of time taking _________ of the rare flowers before hiking back to the picnic area. The caretaker of the picnic spot _________ us with coffee sourced from the nearby coffee plantation. The lunch was _______     fried rice, chili chicken and fried vegetables which are also __________ from the farm nearby.

We spent some more hours watching the rain in the mountains while having the fruit custard(蛋奶沙司)prepared by the caretaker’s __________. The couple also talked with us regarding his farms and the picnic spot which is ________   with tourists during public holidays. Waving goodbye and __________ to return someday, we were homeward bound.

A __________ from the dullness of life not only added a sense of quiet to our mind, but also helped each of us spend quality time with each other, something we do not get in the routine schedules. The Western Ghats outing was a lifetime __________ with the Neelakurinjis.

6 . “You are about to experience something very special,” the card on my bed reads.

I’m about to start one of the most _________ evenings of my life: a night spent in a transparent dome(透明的穹状建筑物)_________ a few feet away from Asian elephants in the bush(灌木丛)of Thailand’s Golden Triangle. Although I’m one of the first people to _________ it and I should be nervous, honestly, I could not be more _________!

It’s been my longtime _________ to visit the conservation area of the Golden Triangle to get closer to the elephants here. When I discovered the Jungle Bubbles, I _________ the chance to spend sundown to sunup with these great animals.

I’m as _________ as a kid opening presents as I take picture after picture of the elephants standing nearby. It’s very _________ here. The only thing I have to do is _________ elephants. No phone, no news. I watch as the three elephants that will be my __________ tonight play in a mud(泥)hole.

The elephants finally __________ the mud as it gets dark, blowing hard to clear the mud out of their noses.

The stars begin to look through the sky, and it’s very peaceful. The three elephants are __________ enough that I can hear them breathing and snorting(打响鼻).

I drink my coffee and __________ while they are munching(用力咀嚼)leaves. There can be no __________ way to ever spend a night. The Jungle Bubbles are truly a __________ into the great world of these fantastic animals.

7 . “Chinese tourists have overtaken (超过) Germans as the world’s biggest-spending travelers after a decade of rapid growth in the number of Chinese vacationing abroad,” the United Nations World Tourism Organization said.

Chinese tourists, known for travelling in organized tours and ________ luxury fashion abroad, spent $102 billion on foreign trips last year, 41 percent more than the year before, ________ deep-pocketed travelers from Germany and the United States.

Tourists from other fast-developing economies with a growing middle class, such as Russia and Brazil, also ________ spending in 2012. In decline-hit Europe, however, French and Italian tourists controlled their holiday ________.

“The impressive growth of tourism spending from China and Russia reflects the ________ into the tourism market of more middle classes from these countries,” said Taleb Rifai, secretary-general of the UN World Tourism Organization, which is based in Madrid.

The German Travel Association said it was to be expected that the Chinese tourists would ________ overtake Germans in spending, given that the country had more ________ than North America, Russia, and Europe put together.

“But that they have overtaken us already is ________,” said Juergen Buechy, president of the German Travel Association.

“The Chinese make more long-distance trips than Germans, who ________ go to Mediterranean (地中海) destinations, meaning that the ________ vacation spending per holiday was greater,” he added.

China is the world’s fastest-growing tourist-source market, ________ higher spendable incomes in the world’s second-largest economy and looser foreign travel restrictions.

Chinese tourists made 83 million ________ trips in 2012, compared with 10 million in 2000.

“Hotels, tour companies, restaurants and even taxi drivers will need to improve ________ of Chinese cooking, culture and language if they are to ________ them away from favourite destinations such as Thailand and the Maldives,” European tourism officials have said.

Other countries in the top 10 posted growth in travel spending. ________, only Russia came close to China’s huge growth, with a 32 percent increase in vacation budgets (预算).

9 . It was decades before I traveled solo for the first time in my life. This trip to Colorado was the first trip that was not for business or family reasons but just to travel and ________.

As I prepared for it, I felt excited and ________ at the same time. Would it be fun? Would I be bored? Would I stay in bed all day or would I be full of excitement to do the next thing? I wasn't ________. Little did I know that it was going to be a ________ journey of self-discovery.

As a good wife and mom, for me, travel is always about the ________; always thinking of who would ________ what. It's about family time and bonding. But on a(n) ________ trip who would I connect with? What would I do? Well, I found that I got to do anything I ________!

I met locals while traveling and also other ________. Honestly, I had conversations ________— on planes, while hiking, in restaurants, in the hotel lobby(大厅).

It was quite a(n) ________ experience to meet a mom of 18 kids and hundreds of foster (寄养的) kids, a cookie baker, and an internationally ranked marathon(马拉松) runner. The inspiring stories I discovered were ________ and nothing was like my wonderful ________ life at home. I got to go rock climbing, go hiking solo, and eat ________ . And it was all ________. Actually, it felt surprisingly ________.

It was just me, my SUV and my backpack for a week. ________ it was a breath of fresh air that I didn’t ________ existed. It's wonderful to be back home and know that possibilities are ________ and there is so much more out there to ________ and be impressed and surprised by!

10 . Considered a symbol( 象征) of ancient Chinese_________, the Great Wall of China was enlisted in the World Heritage by the UNESCO in 1987 as one of the _________of the world. Just like a huge_________, the Great Wall winds( 蜿蜒) its way up and down from east to west, across deserts, over mountains, _________ valleys till at last it reaches the sea, with a _________of more than 6000 kilometers.

No one can tell for sure when the building of the Great Wall was _________, but it is popularly believed that the Great Wall was first built over 2500 years   ago during   the West   Zhou Dynasty to _________ the nation against the northern tribes( 部落). Emperor Qin Shihuang united the different small countries into one _________. To keep the enemies out, he had all the walls _________ up; thus, the great wall came into being. It had been playing an important _________ in wars in ancient Chinese history. It was very _________ work to build such a wall in the ancient days without any modern machines, as all the work was done by _________. Thousands of men died and were _________under the wall they built. Some parts of the Great Wall are now in _________ or even entirely disappeared.

Today the Great Wall has become a _________ for every visitor to China. Many of them have come to know the famous Chinese saying:“He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man.”