1 . The bell rang. Jacob smiled and he was glad his math class was _______. He grabbed his lunch bag out of his backpack and looked inside. He blinked. Beside his usual lunch, there was an envelope. Jacob opened it and slid out a (n) _______. It was of a suitcase. Jacob _______ what it meant.

The next day at lunchtime Jacob opened his bag. A new envelope peeked out. Inside was a tiny toy _______. Now he was _______! When he got home, he asked his mother, “Are we taking a plane somewhere?” She just _______ at him, her eyes sparkling. “I guess it’s a mystery(谜)” was the only _______ she gave him.

Over the next few days, Jacob _______ more: a small American flag, a leaf from a palm tree and _______ a juicy orange. Then one day, when he finally got to open his lunch bag, there was ________ in it except for his usual lunch. His heart sank. Maybe he had been wrong after all. Maybe there was no trip. He was very ________.

Just before the end of the day, the school secretary handed Jacob a small box. “This is for you and ________ your mother outside.” He opened the box. A smile slid across his face. He ________ and pulled out a small black hat with two round mouse ears.

He hurried down to the main school doors where his mother and father were waiting, with suitcases. “We’re going to Disney World, right?” Jacob couldn’t contain his excitement. “Mystery ________,” laughed his mother. “Come on, we’re headed to the ________!”

2 . Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it _______ . She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive _______ , but the couple has an unusual way to make their travel _______ .

They’re part of a new form of the _______ economy: an online group of house sitters. Throughout their no-cost stays in _______ homes, they feed pets and water plants in the homeowner’s _______ .

It’s not all sightseeing. The two travelers carefully _______ their trips, scheduling their days around the pets that are sometimes difficult to _______ . But house sitting also offers a level of _______ they can’t find in a hotel. “It’s like ________ at a friend’s house,” Jessica says.

The couple has a high ________ rate in getting accepted as house sitters and they always go beyond the homeowner’s ________ . For Jessica, that means ________ plenty of pictures of happy pets, keeping the house ________ and leaving a nice small gift before heading to the next house. “You want to make the homeowner feel that they made the right ________ ,” she says.

3 . An off-duty pilot was called a "legend" after stepping in to fly a plane himself to stop the flight being cancelled.

Michael Bradley, a(n) _______ easyJet pilot, had a holiday when he _______ flying a plane that was delayed by two hours. He told passengers on board the Manchester Airport flight to Alicante that he was _______ his services as there was no pilot available. Mr. Bradley was filmed by passenger Michelle Potts making the _______ and Ms. Potts posted the video on Facebook.

Mr. Bradley said, "My wife was then with my little boy. She _______ and complained ‘Our flight's delayed by two hours because there's no _______ for the flight.’ So just before we went through security I _______ if this is worth a phone call. I think it is because I'd like to go on holiday."

Mr. Bradley phoned up easyJet and said, "I'm standing in the _______ doing nothing. I have got my _______ with me and I'd very much like to go on holiday and if you need a(n) ________ , I'm standing here ready to go." And his bosses called him back in less than a minute to give him the go-ahead, saying, "Please, please, can you fly the airplane to Alicante?" Then he said to the passengers, "If you're alright for one of your pilots to ________ this today, we'll go to Alicante. " This was ________ with cheers from the passengers.

An easyJet spokesman said the flight's delay was due to the knock-on effects of the French Air Traffic Control ________ on Sunday. He added, "We are ________ to one of our pilots who was ________ on holiday from Manchester to Alicante on 2^nd, September with his family and ________ to operate the flight. This ________ customers could get to their destination and shows the ________ of our crew. This is ________ in line with regulations as he had his license and ID with him. Safety is always our ________ priority."