2 . 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 18th birthday, she had travelled 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，in 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 travelling 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.”

3 . One of my first international trips as an adult was traveling around the Caribbean (加勒比海). I_________ my hotel in Jamaica (牙买加) and asked for a recommendation for a local place to eat. The receptionist told me that under no _________ should I go into the town because it was really_________

I_________ my options: Did I really want to spend all my time on the beach without getting to know a single _________? I was a very_________ traveler and very young, but there was only one answer to my question: Absolutely not. So out I went.

The poverty hit me in the face. After only seeing fancy resorts, the reality was hard to _________. A few locals _________ me and were super curious as to what I was doing there alone since most tourists did not go there. I told them I was interested in meeting them and experiencing their_________. And just like that, I was __________. After meeting more natives, __________ home-made food, and dancing the night away, I realized how they wanted to make me feel welcome and they __________ did. With having so little, they still shared it with me in a gesture of generosity.

I could not resist to think about how tourist income__________ sharply for big companies annually, while the local inhabitants have to be thankful if they get a job that pays minimum wage. From then on, I always looked for locally owned accommodation, restaurants, guides, and__________. Sustainable development, with everything it involves, became a motto for me and changed the very __________ of the way I travel.

4 . I had a great dream when I was in my twenties. I wanted to travel around Africa with my _________. So I left my hometown with great confidence and _________ Cape Town, not really_________ what to do next. Luckily, before my trip actually started, I met a kind, old Nigerian man. He gave me the best travel _________ 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 realize that travel is about learning and observing local _________. “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 learn from the locals, you’ll have far richer _________,” he promised me.

On other vacations, when I was on my tour way to Cancun. 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 knowing anyone or anything that existed in those places to which I had paid a visit.

This time, I promised 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 (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.

5 . Kimberly and I had planned a trip to Europe for a long time, but we encountered some curveballs. Getting the departure time wrong, we had to ________ from the original train trip to a ship one.

Boarding the ship, we ________ it was not like a spacious hotel. The room was incredibly tight. The ________ in the small bathroom was a spout (喷头) connected to the sink. You turned it on and sprayed yourself,________ the rest of the room.

The week-long ship travel was full of ________. There were people from diverse backgrounds speaking different languages. We had stopovers on ________ of all sizes, where we cycled 30-40 kilometers. Then there were whole gales (狂风) — so fierce that even the buses couldn’t pass for safety ________. So finally we ________ back home.

We still appreciated the experience. Our real passion was about the ________ rather than the destination — the missed rides, the ________ ship, the mixture of cultures, and all the ________.

Sometimes people are so ________ to their comfortable life that it scares them to be off the beaten track. Yet, once out of their comfort zone, the different experiences are what actually ________. Mixing things up, trying new things, seeing something through another person’s eyes, being ________ to adventure — this is how you create ________.

7 . Starting as a journey to find the true meaning of happiness, The Smile Project began in the late fall of 2011 as Liz drove home from school.

“I had my windows down and my radio up. I couldn't tell you the name of a single song, but I_________I was happy,” Liz recalled.

“_________, when I got home I posted a Facebook status stating, ‘Day 1: Happiness is... those perfect car_________where the radio just plays all the right songs.’”

As day 1 turned into Day 2,3,4 and now 3,307_________days of finding joy, The Smile Project has grown into a widespread campaign with one simple_________：share joy.

Liz started writing down what made her happy each day. This_________of writing daily joy has_________many people across the globe to pause, reflect, and_________one joy that may have brushed through their days.

She_________that it was difficult initially to stay true to the__________of finding gratitude every day__________strength to believe that there is no day without__________.

When she__________Day 3,000, she wrote: “It's easy to feel that what we do is so small, but none of us will truly be able to grasp the deep__________that our lives will have on one another. It doesn’t have to be about money, just about making the__________to make someone's day.”