1 . 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 _______ in Cape Town, not really sure what to do next. _______, before my trip actually started, I _______ a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel _______ I had ever received: “BE LIKE A STUDENT ON YOUR WAY AROUND THE WORLD.”

It sounded _______, but it really changed my idea about traveling. He helped me _______ that travel is about learning and observing _______. It's far too easy to go into a (n) _______ 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.

When I was on my tour way to Cancún, I was __________ 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 that existed in those places to which I had __________ a visit.

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

2 . It was a hot day in Bangkok. I was walking out of the busy Grand Palace. Some Thai teens were _______and started asking me questions. Noticing that I was _______, they were interested and wanted to know more.

"Oh, so lonely!" they said to me when they learned I was, indeed, _______by myself for the long journey. I just smiled. They didn't know I've hardly been alone.

I'm surprised by how much more _______I've become. Instead of putting my _______down and taking no notice of the person who may be _______me on the sidewalk, now I smile and say hello. The only bad thing is the fleeting (短暂的) nature of the relationship one builds on the _______. I've felt sad more than a couple of times over _______a fellow traveler. But there are always _______friends and possibilities just in the next town.

Part of the ________of taking this trip was the knowledge that I'd be doing this alone. At first, I tried to get friends to ________with me for the journey. I asked close friends, then even not-so-close friends, then ________realized that I might never travel if I ________around for a time when a friend of mine would be free to ________me. If I was really going to do this, it would have to be alone.

As it turns out, traveling alone is the best ________I could have made. You always have to make special ________for others when you travel with others. Sometimes, you have to do things you don't feel like doing.

Traveling alone is ________. And really, unless I want and seek out ________, I am never alone. I always have a group. I never feel ________. Sometimes, being alone forces you to get along with people you might not otherwise have ever ________.

So don't fear traveling alone. It's the best thing.

3 . When I was a college student, I did a lot of travelling abroad.That was because a professor _______ me to do so. She said, “Now it is the time for you to travel around the world,_______ your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun!” I agreed with her.

Since I started to work for a food company, however, I have done most of my travelling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the _______ of many cities on my computer screen. And I have made real business _______, too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got _______ about food in different countries.

Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were no longer_______ when I happened to read a famous chef’s (厨师) comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country because we enjoy food and the _______ around us at the same time. So why don’t you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian dishes?” Those words reminded me of my professor’s advice. As information technology _______, you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various _______ you can get from travelling.

Today there are people who________ direct contact with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people talking not with each other but into their cellphones. It seems as if such people are ________ by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to ________ and talk with other people. I don’t think they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily ________ more fruitful. However, we should never let it ________ our time for face-to-face communication. Let’s make use of information technology more ________, and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

4 . Recently we took a trip to the South of France. As my parents are both _________, they decided to take me along on their artist residency program, _________ in the charming city of Arles in the Provence region, which is famous as the town where Vincent van Gogh painted some of his most famous works.

We _________ from Switzerland on a French train. It ran well and was _________, and we easily found taxis waiting outside the Arles train station. Our apartment was located on Rue de la Calade, a _________ street in the center of the city. It was _________—with stone floors, well-kept rooms, and friendly neighbors. Our first day in Arles was spent walking around the just getting a feel of the area. We had _________ our apartment for three weeks!

The first day’s _________ we took outside of Arles was to St. Remy, where Van Gogh once lived in a mental hospital while still painting some of his most beloved _________. Today you can visit all the places that he painted at, although they aren’t as completely unchanged as they used to be. St. Remy is a beautiful little town, though—lots of places to __________.

My family and I took a day tour to the Camargue, a nearby nature __________, which is France’s wild west, our last week in Arles. We got the __________ we had booked through the Arles tourist office, which can sometimes be __________. The tour was, although a little long, beautiful in every way. If in the South of France, I __________ recommend visiting the Camargue.

So overall, Arles and the South of France is excellent. __________ stopping for some days!

5 . For decades, humans have torn up the natural landscape in Asia, cutting down trees to build resorts (旅游胜地) in the most beautiful locations and caging wild animals to attract tourists.

Bangkok-based hotel architect Bill Bensley is saying “_________.”

When a businessman talked with him about _________ a resort that included a zoo in Asia, he came up with a (n) _________: let’s _________ the humans and let the rare and endangered _________ wander free.

Sounds _________? Bensley is known for _________ ideas, so much so that he’s been called the “Willy Wonka of hotel design.”

At his Shinta Mani Wild resort in Cambodia _________ arrive via a 380-meter zip wire (高空滑索) over the wilderness of the South Cardamom National Park and are _________ to join Wildlife Alliance anti-poaching patrols (防盗猎巡逻).

But he’s not doing things __________ for eye-catching. Bensley is a lifelong conservationist who deeply __________ what humans are doing to the planet. That’s why he wanted to do the World Wild Project. 61-year-old Bensley says the first stage of the eight-year project, which will __________ several different top branded hotels, is expected to __________ in 2023.

The cages for __________ will actually be 2,400 hotel rooms, with a budget of generally a million __________ per room. Let’s just say the guests won’t be uncomfortable.

__________, it’s not the rooms the California-native is talking about. Having a __________ with a local official, he has got the permission to relocate abused animals from __________ in Asia, and set them free onto the __________ 2,000-hectare piece of land __________ the human zoo will be located.

6 . Over two weeks ago I was standing on the summit of Mount Qomolangma. It was the top of many years’ hard work, and the___ of a childhood dream.

I have been overwhelmed by the tide of goodwill and   ___________ . But one thing has become ____ apparent. Many people have constant misunderstandings about Mount Qomolangma. In       their ___________, Qomolangma   has   ___________ her   crown.   She   has   become   a   mountain synonymous with death, exploitation and_____

The most common question I get asked is: “Is it______ in rubbish?” As a United Nations patron( 资 助 人 ) of the wilderness, one of my roles is to_____ back from the Earth’s remaining wildernesses and to act as a___ for the wild.

I climbed Qomolangma expecting a rubbish dump but what I found   ___________ me: I   _______   saw any litter, from the airport to the summit.

The Nepalese have _______ some huge clean-up campaigns in recent years, perhaps to       improve their reputation, but also in response to some tragic natural disasters. The government _______ a number of requirements including that each climber     ______________ an additional 8kg of     litter (not including their own) and incentives( 激励) for Sherpas( 夏尔巴人) of $2 per kilo of rubbish cleaned.

The results have been ____________. The country lanes of Great Britain have more rubbish than the___ to base camp; despite   the   100,000   footfalls   I   saw   one   of   the   cleanest,   tidiest wilderness trails I have encountered.

I have spent time in many of the world’s popular wilderness locations and I would say Nepal should be _________ . It is an example of man repairing the ___________   he has done. As our focus   turns to the oceans   and the seemingly_________   task of repairing our marine habitat,   we could       look at Qomolangma as a fine___ of turning back the clock.

7 . Many people enjoy taking trips by themselves. Unluckily, they do not always have the best_________. Instead, people should consider group tours. Taking a group tour is a wise choice for people to __________themselves.

First, group tours plan travelers’ routes, so people don’t have to_______where they are going next or how they are getting there. They can just_______and enjoy their trip._______, my family once took a group tour to China. The travel agency (旅行社)_______everything for us. We just looked at the schedule the travel agency had_______and followed it. Thanks to the travel agency, we had a _______trip. This made things _______on my father since he didn’t have to worry about where we would go next and ________at night.

Another________of group tours is that they allow people to communicate with one another while traveling. Travelers are able to develop________with people they would never have met________they are traveling together for a number of days. As I know, my parents ________Russia on a group tour for their honeymoon (蜜月). They________another couple on that trip, and everyone had a great time together. Even after many years, they still________together from time to time. If my parents had traveled by themselves, it would have been________for them to get to know this couple.

In short, there is ________better than a group tour when traveling. Group tours schedule everything on the trip, and they give us the________to meet others and make friends with them. Group tours are the ________way to travel when taking a trip.