1 . It is the first day of the summer. George and his friend Carlos are ________ for a camping trip. It is going to be the best camping trip, which will last three days. While Carlos makes ________ for their friends, George is going to make a list of activities to do while they are there. Last year, their camping trip was not entirely a ________. They got a flat tire on the way to their campsite. They also found a ________ bear seizing some of their food. They don’t want to ________ that chaos again.

This year, they want to make a ________ plan. George is going to take a ________ tire and gas, just in case they run out. Carlos is going to try and find a better ________ of storing food without attracting ________ to their campsite. They don’t want anything to ruin this year’s ________. On this trip, George and Carlos have invited ten of their friends. Everyone is ________. George has prepared his list of ________ to do with his friends.

Mountain climbing, hiking, fishing, and to play a few games of flag football are all on their ________ . For night activities, they plan to tell stories, sing songs along with George’s guitar, and play some board games. With the list Carlos ________,they are going to have vegetables, chicken, fruit and some ________ for sudden illnesses. It is going to be the best trip they have ever made.

2 . The idea for street art in Kaohsiung’s districts   _______ one very   _______ local art student named Bamboo . He _______ asked permission to paint a mural(壁画)on   _______ old apartment building in Mi Mi Village. At first, not all of the   _______ agreed. But their village chief, Chou Shiu-Mi _______ them that Bamboo’s project would improve their community’s appearance. They gave _______, yet some still had reservations. _______ Bamboo finished one painting   _______ started more, their concern quickly turned to pride in the project and their village. More than 40 murals now decorate the buildings of Mi Mi Village.

Today, the community fully ________ the street art project. Many from the village are working to organize a volunteer guide program, to ensure ________ visitors feel safe and welcome.

________ one street art fan, no one place seems to   ________the trend more than Kaohsiung. This has prompted some to nickname the city,   “Taiwan’s Street Art Capital.” Areas like Lingya District explode with color from the numerous art pieces ________have been painted by visiting and local artists. The area is thought to be Taiwan’s largest village of murals. Two of the more famous murals are “Feathers”,________Belgian artist Adele Renault and “Rise Above” by Mexican-American artist Ricardo Gonzalez.

3 . Do you know that the Czech Republic is among the countries that possess the most castles in the world? Among those 2, 000 castles is Hluboka Castle. ________ it is not ranked in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, its unbelievable ________ attracts both domestic and foreign tourists. After living in Prague for more than six years, I was finally able to organize a trip to this ________ castle this summer.

It was a lovely summer day when my two university friends and I decided to travel to Hluboka Castle. The castle is ________ in a town of the________ name, Hluboka, which lies in the southern part of Prague. At 7: 30, we________ the bus station in the main train station of Prague, and after two and half hours, we arrived at our ________.

We walked about 10 minutes from the bus station to the city center. There we had to climb a smooth slope to reach the castle, during which I could already hear the horses’ hooves（蹄脚） and carriage wheels rolling across the ________.

We first saw an extensive English garden with a lawn and colorful flowers. It was first built in Gothic style by King Premysl Otakar II in the 13th century. Later ________ by the famous German-Czech noble house Schwarzenberg, the castle was rebuilt several times. The ________ style was changed first to baroque and later to the same romantic style as England's Windsor Castle.

There are several routes for________, but we only________ the route for representative rooms, which contained the bedroom, dining room, kids' theatre and library. It is ________ for Czech castles to have a guide to________ the history of the castle, which I ________ very much. The castle is________ in many ways. It is mostly decorated by huge tapestries（挂毯画）and jalousie windows. There are also armories （军械库）________ hunting weapons, armor and horse saddles.

I have seen many castles in many countries, but Hluboka Castle still surprised me. After discussing with my friends, I realized that unlike other countries, Czech castles are usually not possessed by kings but ________ families-such as Schwarzenberg, who during their peak period owned ________ castles on Czech land. I am amazed by the interesting history and amazing________ that Hluboka provided.

4 . I picked up my phone to take a picture of the beautiful scenery we were passing through while the tour guide spoke. I swiped my phone lock screen to get to my ________ and got a message that was one of my worst nightmares during a vacation: Cannot take a picture. There is not enough ________ storage in Settings. So I quickly went to my camera roll to see what pictures I could remove. No ________ . I needed to keep all 1, 560 of the photos I already had. Then I tried to ________ some apps,but I needed all of them.

In the minutes that I spent working through my storage issue, I ________ many beautiful views. I probably never get to see them again. And wasn’t I on this ________ to see them?

Suddenly I ________ that though I got to see some things when I gave myself a chance to ________ every once in a while between taking pictures, I was ________ myself of the experiencing time. While at first I was ________   at myself and heartbroken that I wouldn’t have pictures of my own, it was actually a ________ in disguise(伪装). Then I took mental pictures and________the trip.

Recently as I ________ my travel experiences with my friends I no longer use countless pictures that they would see on the Internet to tell my story. ________ , I use my unique experiences to create an ________ in their minds that no picture could ever ________ because this experience is ________ : The mental pictures I took, the beautiful and sometimes horrible smells, the ________ of different cuisines and the first time I ________ touched a snowflake. These were all things that I touched and felt ________ a screen getting in the way.

5 . In December 2013, photojournalist Wood set out to become the first person to walk the length of the Nile River.

Wood’s journey began in Rwanda, took nine months and ________ 3,750 miles. It was necessary to make the trip on foot, he says, because “________ is the only way you can really get under the skin of a country.”

Wood acknowledges that his ________ was often dependent on the hospitality (好客) of local villagers. The people of the Sudan, he says, were probably the most ________ of all. Even sharing water, he says, ________ an incredible act of kindness.

“The biggest challenge was the sun ________ down. Most of the day I had to be ________ to the sun,” he recalls, “My guide had a catapult (弹弓). He would shoot pigeons. Other times we’d eat with villagers. The local ________ could vary, from grasshoppers to rats.”

The journey wasn’t without danger. Civil War in South Sudan ________ shortly after his arrival. He made it halfway through the country, to Bor—the front line of the war. It was there that he was arrested and ________ before an army commander, who told him he was not ________, and threatened to kill him if he crossed the border. He was evacuated (疏散)   to the capital, and flew to North Sudan.

“I ________ out 400 miles of the journey,” he regretted.

Had he made the trip ________, he would ________ have achieved a Guinness World Record. But he says it doesn’t matter.

“It was never about breaking records, it was about taking the biggest ________ in my life, and it was certainly that.”

6 . It is a common case that most people think a holiday requires a huge amount of preparation. However, a short day _________ can be just as refreshing as a long one. A short day’s drive or walk can be the channel that transports you into a _________ and casual world, where you can recall your childhood and enjoy your favourite songs. _________, a day trip can be a wonderful way to _________ the stresses of routine existence while feeding the soul.

You may be surprised to see how many day-trip possibilities _________ within a mere hour’s time from your home. Forests, lakes and mountains can serve as the perfect spots for a short _________ because the physical and mental transformation in an attractive setting is _________ by deep thinking and breathing, or just being still with _________.

I have numerous ways to _________ make up for the promise of my low-carbon life while still seeing to the __________ of myself on a soul level. However, my __________ to environmental well-being causes me to hesitate before using my car. So I cut my drive trip to a day.

Since day trips tend to require much __________ investments of time and money than traditional outings, I can get __________ travel experience day by day. On the weekend, I may be motivated to __________ a vast state park to get to know wildlife. On another, my curiosity can inspire me to visit a(n) __________ site to learn about ancient artists. Each mini trip will fill my existence with a sense of rebirth that prepares me for whatever lies ahead.

7 . I've always loved mountaineering (登山) and the mental and physical challenges that go with it. This time the peak (山峰) of Mt. Whitney is my ______. There are quite a few ways up to the big mountain, but we ______ the traditional one at last, almost 12 miles to the top.

I decided to make this trip less about ______ and more about the climb and my personal journey with a friend. Thinking about it this way, I decided to carry only one camera to ______ the course, but it still added 3.2 pounds to my backpack, which ______ 2.8 pounds without the camera equipment. Fortunately, climbing with a friend ______ sharing the weight, keeping our packs a little lighter. Therefore, we ______ reached the top just two days later. This particular trip was prepared for a personal trip on purpose to get to the peak and enjoy the breathtaking ______.

Climbing such tall peaks ______ every aspect of you, as a nature photographer. It can test both your physical strength and photographic ______. Can you imagine being 14,000 feet up, ______ the thin air of the high-altitude (海拔) environment while also trying to be ______ with your compositions (作品)? That’s what we were doing! And that’s the joy that comes with climbing Mt. Whitney as well.

Like any other ______ in nature, there are risks in mountaineering, though, Extreme altitude and the unpredictable (无法预测的) weather will test even the most ______ climber. Despite the fact, mountaineering for me is all about the experiences, which makes me live to the ______.

8 . “It will be marvelous. It will be spiritual.” This is the ________ tagline that Virgin Galactic used in 2004 to attract potential customers to its planned space tourism services. It promised that, within five years, it would take a total of over 3,000 passengers on life-changing trips in its spaceships. On July 11, 2021, after a last 90-minute delay, Virgin Galactic finally began its fulfillment of that original ________. For four minutes, its six temporarily weightless passengers, including the firm’s British co-founder, Sir Richard Branson, saw the planet against the blackness of outer space.

Back on the ground, Sir Richard called the experience “magical”. He may have ________ the fact that he was able to reach space earlier than Jeff Bezos, a fellow billionaire but much wealthier. On July 20, Bezos would go slightly higher, for slightly less time, in a vehicle that had been built by his own spacefaring company, Blue Origin.

The two tycoons (大亨) are among a growing number of ________ who believe that space tourism’s time has come. Suborbital (亚轨道的) tourism is part of a broader space economy that has rapidly grown over the past decade ________ technological advances. However, it is highly ________ that this will be true.

For now, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will offer ________ suborbital flights to paying customers. Blue Origin is focusing much more on the development of a large new rocket that will be used for the launching of satellites, on selling advanced rocket engines to other companies, and on bidding (投标) on NASA contracts such as the recently announced plan to send humans back to the moon. ________, Bezos doesn’t see Blue Origin as a provider of services to adventure-seekers.

Even this 4-minute suborbital travels have a(n) ________, apparently. A major survey found that nearly two in five people with a net worth of over five million dollars would consider paying $250,000, Virgin Galactic’s current price, for a ticket. The business could be ________, once regular flights begin to offset (抵消) the rockets’ development costs. But how fast and by how much is ________. Without tourist-friendly destinations to visit (the capacity of the International Space Station is strictly limited), orbital tourism, with its far higher ticket prices, will not be a huge earner.

Another challenge — and the industry’s biggest remaining uncertainty — relates to ________. History has shown that a disaster, ________ in the early stages of an industry, can set progress back by years. NASA ________ its plan to send the untrained to orbit in 1986 after a school teacher was killed along with the rest of the crew in the Challenger tragedy. It was another 15 years before the next untrained person would ________ the journey on a Russian craft.

9 . We had just come back home after a big trip. My 5-year-old boy, Baldwin, couldn't _________ to share our stories with his grandmother. Our final _________ is the Appalachian Trail, one of the longest footpaths in the world. We finished the route without any _________ in 209 days. The _________ was really hard work, but full of fun. The landscape along the way was _________, with green woods and wild animals like kangaroos. My husband and I had little time to _________ our own physical pain from walking so many kilometers, but tried hard to keep our little boy happy and excited. When we were tired, we got to eat Skittles, a colorful sweet treat, to make my son_________. We slept in a tent, _________ at 5: 30 in the morning and walking all day. Talking with other hikers along the way prevented _________ and brought extra joy.

My son was even several months __________ than “Buddy Backpacker”, a boy who once held the record for the youngest person for the route. We had been hiking __________ my son was two years old. We took every opportunity to go outside and __________ the world. It may seem like an impossible activity for a child. However, it turned out that he was strong enough to __________ it. My son's trip earned __________ from Dale, the oldest person to hike the route. He said, “It's going to change his life forever. Baldwin has gone through some hardships, making him stronger. This challenge contributes to his social and __________ development. He will smile through his life.”

10 . My husband and I booked a fall foliage (叶子) tour up the Hudson River. We were really excited to see all the changing colors of the leaves in their full glory.

It was a beautiful day. We were a little ________ since none of the leaves in our backyard seemed to be changing color. But we ________ that as we motored farther north, it would be a ________ story.

However, through the whole trip, there was only the occasional sight of yellow and orange. It was not the fall foliage tour we had ________.

Our whole family ________ where we were and we had to prepare to face their ________ about the trip when we returned. How were the leaves? Were you disappointed?

If I tell myself that the ________ was all about the color of the leaves, and complain about money wasted and hopes ________, I will have had a truly ________ day. But if I tell myself that I had a beautiful day out on the Hudson River, had some ________ time(even on a boat filled with passengers), and came back refreshed, then it was money and time ________.

________ I couldn’t change the surroundings and I couldn’t make the leaves suddenly change color, all that was left was to change my ________.

So the honest answer is that while there was some initial (原来的，最初的) ________, we ________having a great day. I love being out on the water.