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 (经济): 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 travellers 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.

5 . When I was still a child, I read “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway. Reading it for the first time gave me a strong ______to see this well-known mountain______.

Then in my early 20s, I   ______   a man who had been to Kenya. He saw and described Kilimanjaro as a mountain standing by itself in the middle of the African plain, ______ by ice on its summit (山顶). This______my desire to see the mountain with my own eyes, and perhaps even climb it.

About 10 years later, I travelled to Havana, Cuba and spent some time______the home of Ernest Hemingway. This trip______my love for “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. This was a______of my soul, and the ______ , and desires I had so long ago as a(n)______. It was at this moment that I______I was going to climb Kilimanjaro.

Vancouver to Africa is a great______, so I decided to put some add-ons to my planned______. The first would be an expedition ( 探 险 ) across the Sahara Desert,______by travelling up the source of the Nile. It would finish at my______goal of Kilimanjaro. This would be a journey to______: to cross the world’s greatest desert, ______the river that moves through one of the cradles of civilization, and climb the tallest mountain in Africa.

After ending the journey, I wrote a novel which______this trip, sharing how much I enjoyed each moment of it, and how______each day became on its own. This remarkable and special journey will be ______ in my heart.

6 . I had an interesting childhood, filled with surprise and delight, all because of my mother — loving, sweet, yet absent-minded and forgetful. One _________family trip we took when I was eleven tells a lot about her. My two sets of grandparents lived in Colorado and North Dakota, and my parents decided to spend a few weeks _________ to those states and seeing all the sights along the way. As the first day of our trip _________, David, my eight-year-old brother, and I_________ said good-bye to all of our friends. Who knew if we’d ever see them again? Finally, the moment of our departure (启程) arrived, and we _________ our luggage into the car and bravely drove off. We bravely drove off again two hours later after we’d returned to get the purse and traveler’s checks Mom had_________at home.

David and I were always a little_________ when using gas station bathroom if Mom was driving while Dad slept: “You stand outside the door and play lookout (放哨) while I go, and while you go, I will do the _________. ” We reminded each other. I_________ terrible pictures in my mind: “Honey, where are the kids?” “What?! Oh, Gosh. . . I thought they were being awfully __________.” My brother and I were never actually left__________ in a strange city, but we weren’t about to take any chance.

We drove through several states and saw lots of great __________ along the way. But what made this trip never fade away (逐渐消失) from our memories were those __________ troubles. As my dad __________ it, adaptation and tolerance were what a trip was really about, which means, whatever you come across, don’t forget to laugh and then __________ it.

8 . Ciudad Perdida, Colombia’s “Lost City” is older than Machu Picchu. There are no trains or buses allowing of _______ travels to reach its ruins. The remote place is only _______ on foot: a tiring multi-day hike.

Despite this, I couldn’t _______ the opportunity to visit Ciudad Perdida. 12 other hikers and I went there in _______ with a licensed guide. The dirt path, which _______ through towering palms and dangling vines (藤蔓), proved _______ right from the start. It’s recommended that hikers have good general _______ , as the journey is difficult. Horses helped to carry basic _______ like food to the cabins where we would sleep. Along the way we also met the _______ .They have been left undisturbed for centuries and there’s a deep ________ between them and the land.

The next morning, we were off early to ________ the heat, but high temperatures and muscle pain had already ________ by the time we reached the final stage—1,200 stone steps to ________ . After finally lifting my ________ body up the long flight of stairs, my eyes rested on the scene that had ________ the backbreaking journey: Ciudad Perdida.

I looked down and ________ at the beautiful site below. We were among a handful of other groups visiting, which seemed like ________ compared to other crowded tourist attractions. While the return trip included ________ the mental hurdle (障碍) of having already accomplished our goal, the experience is the one I would do ________ . It is the difficulty that makes the journey a more ________ one. Earned views are always better.

10 . My husband, our children and I have had wonderful camping experiences over the past ten years.

Some of our _______ are funny, especially from the early years when our children were little. Once, we _______ along Chalk Creek. I was _______ that our 15-month-old boy would fall into the creek (小溪). I tied a rope around his waist to keep him near to our spot. That lasted about ten minutes. He was _______, and his crying let the whole campground know it. So _______ tying him up, I just kept a close eye on him. It _______ — he didn’t end up in the creek. My three-year-old, however, did.

Another time, we rented a boat in Vallecito Lake. The sky was clear when we _______, but storms move in fast in the mountains, and this one quickly _______ our peaceful morning trip. The _______ picked up and thunder rolled. My husband stopped fishing to ____________ the motor. Nothing. He tried again. No ____________. We were stuck in the middle of the lake with a dead motor. As we all sat there ____________, a fisherman pulled up, threw us a rope and towed (拖) us back. We were ____________.

Now, every year when my husband pulls our camper out of the garage, we are filled with a sense of ____________, wondering what camping fun and ____________ we will experience next.