I will never forget my first     1     （旅行）to Beijing on a train in 2018，which leaves a deep     2     （印象） on me. Before I set off，I made some     3     （安排）.I borrowed a     4     （相机） from my friend. In addition，I     5     （预订） a hotel in Beijing. On May Day，I got on the train in Jinan，and got to Beijing two hours later. I went directly to the Summer Palace. Its     6     （风景） was     7     （极好）. After that，I paid a visit to the Beijing Water Cube and Bird's Nest，where I     8     （过得快乐）. In a word，the trip     9     （开阔了我的眼界） and I'm looking forward to travelling there once again.

A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAIN

    1     it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet. Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ice. Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? That’s     2     we looked like? Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that water bottles     3    . However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful. Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She is very     4     and I knew I didn’t need to encourage her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles. At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. Then we began going down the hills. It was great fun     5       as it gradually became much warmer. In the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green grass. At this point we had to change our caps, coats, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.

THE DREAM AND THE PLAN

My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she     1     me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries. Wang Wei soon got them interested     2         3     too. After graduating from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister, “Where are we going?” It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends. Now she is planning our     4     for the trip.

I am fond of my sister but she has one serious     5    . She can be really stubborn. Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip     6    . Now, I know that the proper way is always her way. I kept asking her, “When are we leaving and when are we coming back?” I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet, Of course, she hadn’t; my sister doesn’t care about     7    . So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her mind. When I told her that our journey would begin at an     8         9     more than 5.000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it. When I told her the air would be hard to     10     and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. I know my sister well. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give in.

Cusco is a popular d    1     for tourists, because of its u    2     place in the history of South America. Cusco was the capital city of the Inca E    3     which was the most powerful in South America until the 1500s. There are two especially interesting things to a    4     about the Inca civilization.

The first is the roads and p    5    they built to connect their important cities. These Inca roads were made up of two north-south highways and many small roads crossing the mountains east to west. The roads were for Inca soldiers and their o    6    

Second, the Incas built wonderful cities full of amazing a    7    ---but there were no markets in these cities. One of the interesting questions of history is how the Incas lived without shopping!

6 . In the early evening we always stop to make camp. We put up our tent and then we eat. After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her     1     and went to sleep but I stayed     2    . At     3     the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It was so quiet. There was almost no wind—only the flames of our fire for     4    . As I lay     5     the stars I thought about how far we had already travelled.

All hope was not lost. Soon after the quakes, the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue workers. Hundreds of thousands of people were helped. The army     6     teams to dig out those who were trapped and to     7     the dead. To the north of the city, most of the 10,000     8     were rescued from the coal mines there. Workers built     9     for survivors whose homes had been destroyed.     10     water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane. Slowly, the city began to breathe again.