3 . 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 . It was last year in November that my family and I took our first camping trip. My whole family _______, which was the most important part of the trip for me. My siblings(兄弟姐妹) are grown-ups with different _______, which makes it difficult for us to _______ an activity like this.

We had just set up the tent when it suddenly started raining. _______, we had positioned the tent on a high flat surface where _______ could not come into our tent. Even with the rain, I had never been happier.

While we were all _______ the sound of the rain, my mom cooked a warm meal for the family. Over the dinner, my father told us _______ stories about his childhood, which made us burst into laughter. At night, it was a bit cold. My sisters and I grabbed a _______ and chatted about our daily life. Soon, a hot meal and a good _______ warmed us up.

I realized how ________ it was camping under the sound of the rain. I came to understand why my parents were so ________ about camping.

The next day, we ________ our belongings and headed home. I’m very ________ for this camping trip. Not only did I experience the beauty of the forest, but I also learned that even if the ________ is not the best for camping, we can get used to Mother Nature as a family to make unforgettable ________.

6 . I’m Grace, 13 years old and in seventh grade in Florida. I was in the six grade last year. That school year was _______. My family and I spent that year _______ all over Europe, seeing amazing places, meeting all kinds of people, understanding different cultures, and getting _______ in the process.

When my _______ decided to travel to Europe, we were excited. _______ we had a problem. We couldn’t rent a car that had enough _______ to work for our five-member family, so my dad bought a bigger one. It became our new _______ during the trip. I had to leave a lot of my things behind because so little of it would _______ into my tiny new room. We had to be careful to save our water. And we were doing homeschooling, _______ worked out great. We lived in a (n) ________ home, but my family ________ got along really well.

No matter what, I made sure to ________ my window every morning, because the view was ________ every day--- England, then France, Italy, Greece … each special in its own way. We toured around country after country, tried to pick up little bits of the local ________, but that didn’t help us much. Luckily, we kept ________ people who knew some English. Everywhere we went, we saw the most amazing things. I love reading about places, in my text-books and then getting ________ our car midway to look right at them. I can’t pick a favorite one, because every place we were at seemed to be the ________.

After our ________ ended, we moved back to Florida. But it makes me ________ that my family had this great year long ________ together. I’m thankful for that.

7 . Many Chinese Seek Family-friendly Travel

For this year’s Children’s Day on June 1, Deng Mo and his wife drove their son to the city of Suzhou, about 100 kilometers from Shanghai, where the family lives.

Many parents ________ spent the weekend with their children, according to a major online travel agency, Ctrip. The platform says ________ for family-friendly hotels increased nearly 60 percent year-on-year that weekend. Sanya, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou were among the top destinations.

Over 70 percent of parents travelling with children chose short-distance tours, and more than 80 percent took high-speed railways or drove. Family-friendly tours ________ up to 60 percent of domestic and overseas travel, a China Tourism Academy survey says. More than 80 percent of ________ believe travelling with children can bring joy to the whole family, and 96 percent express interest in such tours.

Deng has previously taken his son to Japan and Thailand. “It wasn’t ________ to travel with a 3-year-old,” Deng says. “He had a lot of ________ more than we did.” During their vacation in Japan, for example, his son fell sick, and the parents had to stay in the hotel for a whole day. Still, Deng hopes such tours will ________ his boy’s horizons.

Many parents ________ such trips as educational. Shanghai-based online travel agency Lvmama reports that bookings for tours involving museums has increased.

Shanghai resident Ji Hongjuan enjoys taking her 12-year-old daughter, Wen Lan, to China’s ________ sites and museums. In the past few years, they have visited such places as the Palace Museum, the Shaanxi History Museum, and the Nanjing Museum.

“I usually ask my daughter to be my ________ ,” Ji says.

“She searches for information about where we will visit and takes me there, which I think is a great way to ________ her curiosity.”

The family-travel market will continue to grow during the summer vacation from July to August, Ctrip and Lvmama ________

Ji Hongjuan plans to take her daughter to Sichuan Province, where they’ll visit the Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum and the Chengdu Wuhou Shrine because her daughter loves ________ Chinese poetry.

China Tourism Academy head Dai Bin says the market has great ________ . “Our surveys show many parents complain about destinations being too crowded during public holidays,” he says. “Over 40 percent say they’ re looking for more ________ travel products.”

8 . The most unforgettable thing during my long summer holiday last year, of course was my trip ________ England. This was my first time to go abroad, so it really made me ________.

There were quite a lot of interesting places in England, ________ Oxford (牛津). When we walked around Oxford, we saw quite a lot of ancient buildings on ________ sides of the streets. One of the most famous tourist ________ in Oxford is Christ Church, it’s ________ one of the Oxford University’s 39 colleges. There is a huge hall in Christ Church, which was ________ as the dining hall at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter ________. I felt really excited when I heard this.

________ place that impressed me ________ during my trip was a place called Stratford upon Avon. It was a small town. Maybe you haven’t ________ it, but I’m sure you have heard about William Shakespeare — it’s the great man’s ________. In Srtatford upon Avon, I could ________ Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Shakespeare Countryside Museum, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and a lot of places that are connected with ________. I went to Shakespeare’s Birthplace. It was the house ________ Shakespeare was born and spent his early years.

I really enjoyed this nice trip to England, from which I learned a lot. I’m very happy that I could visit such an interesting country. I want to go there again in the future.

10 . 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.