3 . Would you drive around the world on a motorbike? Would you do it with a dog ________ behind you the whole way? Jess Stone is doing just that with her dog Moxie.

Stone and Moxie are traveling the world together by_________ . Their trip started on March 5 from their home in Guatemala and will ________ them through 90 countries. 

Moxie is a German shepherd who weighs 34 kilograms and is perfectly ______  on the back of a bike. According to Stone, it took the dog just a single weekend to learn how to  ______ . Sitting on the back of the bike in a motorcycle dog carrier, she looks    _____ with hot pink goggles (护目镜) to protect her eyes.

Stone could not  _______ leaving home without her beloved dog, so she decided to travel the world with Moxie. Traveling with a dog, _______ , has its limits, such as being  ______  to dog-friendly accommodations and attractions. 

But according to Stone, it’s totally  _______ it. “I see Moxie in my mirror _______ . Her head is always right up against my side. Sometimes she even _______  her big nose on my shoulder with her chin up there. It makes me feel so ________ that she’s really experiencing everything.”

One thing Stone has noticed so far is that no matter which country or area they have gone through, the reaction to Moxie is  ______ . “She just puts a big smile on everybody’s face,” Stone said. “And that’s the part that really _______ .”

4 . A few weeks ago my family and I went on a trip by car. This has become our _______ on Sundays over the past several months of the pandemic (疫情). Over the past nine months, we had to stay indoors except on weekends. On a recent morning, we _______ about 30 minutes to Los Dinamos, a mountainous thickly forested national park.

I listened to the _______ of rushing water from the river below and the singing of birds   _______   in the trees. I _______ the tiny hand of our _______ 2-year-old daughter, who was glad to go out playing. And then I surprisingly _______ we were alone. In a city of millions, we had _______ ourselves to another world.

I often tell people what I _______ most about prepandemic life is the liveliness and excitement of the city. But I’ve come to realize that I also need these ________ on pine-needle-covered (铺满松针的) ways with my young daughters, ________ things they had never seen or calling out the ________ of the flowers we pass along the way. I ________ truly fresh air. I need to attract my kids and my husband ahead with promises of delicious food and a perfect ________place where we could sit on the blanket and enjoy the food.

It’s a ________ that there’s life all around me, even if I can’t spend time mixing with others.

5 . World Cup soccer fans in Qatar cannot spend all of their time watching matches. So some of them _________ the desert outside Doha for camel rides and _________. They want to have a tourist experience between games. Business is _________ for the animal handlers. They are making much more money than usual. _________, the interest is causing trouble for the camels.

Ali Jaber AI Ali has been in Qatar for 15 years. He grew up loving camels and can _________ them by their faces. On a normal day, his company would _________ at most 50 rides. But in recent weeks, he and his team are giving 500 rides in the morning and 500 in the evening. There is a lot of money _________ in. Al Ali said. “Thank god, but it is a lot of _________.”

Before roads were built, camels were important to _________ and trade in Qatar. Now they are __________ used in racing and giving rides. Al Ali can __________ when they are tired. The camels will sit back down after standing up. In __________ times, the camels can __________ after every five rides, but now, they give 15 or more rides __________. With little time to rest, the camels are __________ by making loud sounds. So don’t make Qatar camels tired and thin.

6 . I was 17 years old. Along with a dozen other boys I had made a long trip to Iowa in order to see a college that I was thinking of _______. While the trip had been _______ for the most part, I was feeling depressed, alone, and isolated. I was _______ the Appalachian mountains and the forests of my home. I loved _______ the leaves turned a thousand _______ of green in the Spring and then became a _______ of red, gold and orange in the Fall.

Here in Iowa everything was _______. The grass looked burnt and brown. All that I could_______was a mixture of corn, mud and pigs. I walked outside the dormitory of the college and sat on a big rock. I closed my eyes and _______ being back home again. When I finally opened them, however, I saw something that touched my __________. It was a Prairie (大草原) Sunset. It seemed to __________ the sky from horizon to horizon. Gold, red, purple and pink clouds all __________ together in a picture painted by Heaven’s own hand. It was so huge that it took my __________ away. It made our mountain sunsets seem __________ by comparison. I realized that this place too had its own special beauty. This place too was a part of nature’s__________.