2 . Passion, like life, is about the journey, not the destination. Kimberly and I have been planning a trip to Europe for a year. This was a _________ of ours. We took our friends Frantoise and Stein Eriksen with us.
The most exciting part of the journey started with a train ride that had some curveballs (不顺利). When we were trying to get on a _________ from Zurich to Croatia, we had gotten the departure time wrong and had to _________ around the station to make it in time. We had a tough time finding a taxi to make it to the ship. We finally found a taxi and arrived an hour late. _________, they waited for us.
Once we got onto the ship we _________ it was not like a large hotel with great service. It was a tight quarter. The bathroom was very _________. The shower was a spout (喷头) connected to the bathroom sink. You turned it on and sprayed (喷洒) yourself, along with the rest of the room.
The week-long ship ride was full of _________. There were people from different nationalities speaking different languages. We stopped on islands of all sizes. We bicycled 30-40 kilometers. Then there were high winds — so high that the buses couldn’t run because they might blow over. So we took an expensive taxi, and headed back to make our flight home.
While we loved the more predictable parts of the trip, our real passion was in the _________ — the missed rides, the _________ ship, the mixture of cultures, and even the __________.
Sometimes people are so __________ that it scares them to do something different. __________ when they do get out of their comfort zone, the different experiences they once thought were __________ are what stand out. Mixing things up, trying new things, seeing something through another person’s eyes, being __________ to adventures — this is how you create __________.
1. A.request | B.plan | C.goal | D.chance |
2. A.train | B.ship | C.taxi | D.flight |
3. 4. A.Hopefully | B.Obviously | C.Ultimately | D.Fortunately |
5. A.admitted | B.believed | C.noticed | D.understood |
6. A.well-equipped | B.small | C.clean | D.modern |
7. A.dangers | B.conflicts | C.adventures | D.fun |
8. A.discouraging | B.unsettled | C.dangerous | D.unexpected |
9. A.overcrowded | B.empty | C.unbearable | D.expensive |
10. A.noise | B.delay | C.size | D.winds |
11. A.fortunate | B.uneasy | C.comfortable | D.busy |
12. A.Moreover | B.Yet | C.Because | D.Even |
13. A.dull | B.enjoyable | C.amazing | D.scary |
14. A.alert | B.open | C.blind | D.close |
15. A.passion | B.dreams | C.changes | D.chances |