1 . Mark and Rosa have been wanting to go on holiday for many years. They _________ quite hard for several years. Finally, they saved up enough money for their dream _________ at a place called San Antonio in the Caribbean — _________ the dream was more like a nightmare (噩梦)! The holiday cost over five thousand dollars each, but they _________ to go for two weeks in the spring _________ they heard that the weather was perfect there at that time.

The _________ began when the flight was delayed (延误) because of bad weather and they couldn’t _________ until night. They finally got on the _________ twelve hours later! _________, they couldn’t fly to San Antonio because there was a storm and they had to fly to the capital city __________, where they stayed in a(n) __________ hotel by the airport.

The hotel was next to the __________, but it wasn’t near a beach: the sea was so dirty you couldn’t swim in it and the hotel swimming pool was full of leaves! To make things __________, the food was terrible, too: for breakfast there were __________ different types of bread and the salad was full of mayonnaise (蛋黄酱)! The worst part was when the __________ arrived: they felt really terrible because of the wind and rain. Because of the weather they had to stay another night in the small hotel with nothing to do. They finally arrived in San Antonio three days later and someone told them the weather there had been wonderful all the time!

2 . A lot of travellers who are going to new cities are often told to begin their trips with a bus tour. This thinking is that they can then go to the places that _______ them. But that is wrong. What you see from the inside of a moving bus is _______ and removed from the real sights, sounds, and smells outside. So the best way to experience any place is on foot and with absolutely no travel plan. _______ go wherever your feet and your interests _______ you.

You will not only get to the _______ sites that are on the bus tour — the museums, the monuments, the city hall — but you will have seen much more. You will have _______ the present life of the city.

But there is a problem: What if I get lost? No one ever gets _______ lost in a major city. At first you can find your way back to a well-known place. If it frightens you to be “lost”, just find a taxi and go back to where you started. However, the _______ things can happen if you get lost. You can _______ at a sidewalk cafe to have a rest. You can ask the local people near you. And ________ they don’t speak your language, your trip becomes more memorable because of the ________. Here are a few more ways to get the most out of your travel.

First, know before you go. ________ a few hours before your trip learning about the history and culture of your destination.

Second, move around like a local. Use the subways and buses of the city you are ________. You will not only save money, but also learn how people really live.

Third, check the bulletin boards. Sometimes you can find advertisements for free concert, and ________ fun activities on bulletin boards around universities.

So the next time you see a travel poster wishing you to have a bus tour, just save your money. Instead, wander ________. I promise you a time you will remember with great pleasure.

3 . My father was born in a small town in the US. He wasn’t sure what he wanted from _______, but something told him to _______ and begin a new adventure.

He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever the road _______ him.

It’s easy to feel _______ when you’re on the road. We made lots of new friends on our trip — most of them are mechanics, since we often _______ hours in repair shops. But that was a way much _______ than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine to cool off when it was 40℃ outside.

Getting along well sometimes seemed _______. There were always a lot of _______, especially among us back seat passengers about who had to sit in the middle. But even if it was hard, we learned a lot about tolerance (包容). When we were traveling in the Philippines, we drove to Quezon City one day. It should have been an hour’s drive but was nearly three thanks to bad roads and _______ traffic. “Did you put our suitcases in the car?” my father asked my mother as we arrived there. From the back seat, we saw her slowly turn toward my father. “No,” she said. “I thought you did.” That was how a seven­hour car trip turned into a 16­hour one, which was mostly spent in vain (徒劳).

On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were ________ in a rolling box with the same people for the rest of the ________. Even if I sometimes felt like opening the car door and ________ one of my sisters out, I kept my feelings to myself.

This is why road trips were like ________   universities to us. We ________ our PhDs (博士学位)   in how to get along with other people just by traveling in our old car.

If we were ________ given a second chance at life, we would do it all over again. Only this time would I put the suitcases in the car myself.

4 . Around 28 years ago, when photographer (摄影师) Liu Shibin first came to the Shitan Village in She County of Anhui Province, he was deeply ________ to the sights there. The 800-year-old village has peaceful lanes, ________ Hui-style architecture, water scenes, beautiful mountains and a deep cultural ________. After that, Liu came to the village almost every year and started to ________ how to use his power to help the village get out of ________.

Spring is the ________ season for photography tourism in the village. As how to attract visitors during other seasons, Liu got a(n) ________. As the sunflower scene in Qinghai Province was quite famous, Liu advised the local villagers to ________ that and plant sunflowers. In April of 2009, the photographer bought some ________ and paid to villagers to try them out. After the successful ________, Liu spread his sunflower photographs online and the local government then ________ villagers to plant more fields of sunflowers. Thus, more and more photographers and tourists came to the poor village which brought development to the ________ tourism.

When Liu first came to Shitan village, there was only one hotel for photographers, which could only admit 12 people. However, now the village can ________ nearly 10,000 people per day at the tourist season of spring.

Over the past years, photographer Liu Shibin has also shot many ________ for local villagers and sent them a copy for free. Liu has “shot” the small unknown village into a nationwide famous photography attraction, helping local people get on a road to ________ with his lens (镜头).

5 . 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.”

8 . In life, do you choose to take the road everyone has taken, or do you choose the path that is best for you? It might be _________ to choose what everyone has done, especially if it seemed to work for them. But is that what truly _________ for you?

On a recent hiking trip, my partner and I decided to take a popular trail in the _________ direction. This was an old, well-traveled trail that people had been hiking and biking from A to Z for years. For our own reasons, we chose to travel from Z to A. Going backwards made more sense with my _________. The trip would take several days and going backwards _________ that I would end the trip closer to the airport for my flight home.

As my partner and I walked, everyone crossing our path had something to say. “You’re going the wrong way. Are you lost? Are you returning _________ you forgot something? Are you crazy?” The path occasionally crossed a highway. When it did, even passing cars beeped (鸣笛) to _________ us in the “right” direction.

Why did people only see one way? Because that’s what _________ does? Because that’s how it’s always been done? We even _________ to talk to a Danish woman who said. “We have a saying in my country: when you go backwards to everyone else, it’s because you’re avoiding something.” I couldn’t __________ it. We were just enjoying connecting with nature, hiking in the way that best __________ us. Had we gone the “wrong” way? No. At least, not for us.

I decided to __________ the path I chose. Finally, we had a(n) __________ experience. Choosing the “wrong” path was right for me. When your inner __________ tells you something is right (or wrong), listen to it. It’s your instinct (直觉). It’s speaking to you for a reason and it knows, better than anyone, what’s __________ for you.

9 . A 24-year-old woman has achieved an unbelievable achievement 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 dream BIG − to travel around the world and never ______; it’s only a matter of ______ until you make it a reality.”