Wandering in the forest with sweet melodies of wild birds, tourists might feel they are in a fairy tale world.    1     (actual), they are picking wild mushrooms in Yunnan Province. Tired of visiting     2     (crowd) scenic spots during holidays, many people instead choose mushroom picking     3     (refresh) themselves.

Xu Yaowei is in charge of a mushroom picking project on the app “Youyunnan”. “There are two types of tour routes. The first     4     (design) for tourists from outside the province. Their expectation is a mushroom hunting experience,     5     (focus) on easily finding mushrooms.” Xu said, “The second route is for local and high-end customers, which includes a mushroom hunting experience, picking wild tea,     6    visiting a local wild mushroom market as well.”

By the end of August, the project conducted nearly 40 one-day wild mushroom collection tours, serving nearly 800 tourists, more than 95 percent of     7     are from outside the province.Most of them are college     8     (graduate) and parents with children.

A tourist who paid a special one-day visit     9    Yunnan from Sichuan Province said, “My child loves mushrooms and we want to give him a chance to experience the wonders of nature and provide     10     educational experience.”

Did you watch the popular TV series Meet Yourself during your winter vacation? In the TV series, the heroine Xu Hongdou travels to a village in Yunnan province and volunteers at a local café. She gets free meals     1     return.

As the show finds a growing audience, volunteer travel (an old-yet-modern form of travel) similar to Xu’s type of work has attracted more attention.

During the trip, volunteer travelers often provide     2     (service) like teaching, cooking, animal     3    (care), and cultural activities. In exchange for     4     (they) help, the volunteers may get free or    5    (discount) accommodation, meals and laundry, activities or classes.

    6     (tradition), the volunteer activities take place in a foreign country. However, just as what Meet Yourself depicts, more volunteer trips     7     (take) place within     8     same countries or regions the volunteers originate from in recent years. People try volunteer travel for several reasons. By     9     (work) voluntarily while traveling, travelers may make a real, positive impact on the world.

For those     10     are sick of urban pressure but can’t make up their minds whether to move permanently to the countryside, volunteer travel can be a solution.

In this way, travelers can catch some relief from their busy lives.

Located at the western part of Hangzhou, just under 5km away from the West Lake, Xixi National Wetland Park distinguishes itself as     1     exceptional urban place. This park is a pioneering example of how urban life combines agriculture with culture, making it a     2     (real) unique destination. Along with Xihu and Xiling famous, respectively, for their natural scenery    3     cultural heritage, Xixi National Wetland Park is one of the celebrated “Three Xi’s of Hangzhou”.

    4    (cover) a vast area, the park consists of three causeways(堤道) and features ten famous sights. Nearly 70% of the park is occupied by river ports, ponds and small lakes,     5     explains a wetland environment. These waterways cross the park, dividing it into distinct     6     (section): the east, the west, and the central part.

So far, the government     7     (establish) ecological protection zones as well as a sightseeing zone.     8     addition, visitors can explore the Wetland Science Exhibition Hall at the park’s main entrance conveniently.

The Xixi wetlands is an area of unmatched peace and quiet — filled with history and natural     9     (beautiful). The only true thing that can be said of the Xixi wetlands     10     (be) that if you haven’t seen them, you haven’t really seen Hangzhou.

 A white winter in Beijing is nothing new. The city is    1    (frequent) enveloped (包裹) in snow over the colder months. However, the snowfall last weekend led    2    a unique combination of the seasons and a contrast of colours.

Famous places, especially with unique    3    (nature) beauty, were blanketed with a layer of snow and visitors. Camera in hand and braving the cold, I headed off to two of my favourite scenic    4    (spot).

My first stop was Jingshan Park. The artificial park    5    was built in the Ming Dynasty offered remarkable views of the Forbidden City. The coating of snow, contrasting with the colours of the autumn leaves and ancient structures only added to its    6    (elegant) and mystery. It is a view I    7    (see) countless times over the past decade and remains one of my favourite in the city.

Next stop was Xiangshan Park,    8    (date) back to the Jin Dynasty. There was a significant increase in    9    number of visitors. People traveled from all over China    10    (witness) the tree-covered hillsides transforming from their rich summery greens into yellows and reds like a blanket of fire. This created a picture I wouldn’t soon forget.

The Singing Sands Mountain(鸣沙山)is located in Dunhuang in    1     (west)China. Whether you walk through the quicksand    2    slide down a sand mountain, you can hear loud noises from beneath your feet. That’s    3    it is named“The Singing Sands Mountain”. There is a spring lying between the tall sand mountains. This spring, which looks like a crescent moon(月牙),    4    (exist) for thousands of years and has never dried up. The formation and continuous existence of the Crescent Spring are greatly related to its topography (地势).

The flowing water gathers here along the landform and overflows through a porous(可渗透的) geological layer    5    (form) the Crescent Spring. Although its     6    (extreme) dry here, with the annual evaporation being more than 60 times that of the annual precipitation, the stable water source ensures a sustainable water supply to the spring.It’s also due     7    the low-lying terrain(低洼).Whenever there’s a sandstorm, it forms an upward spiral air flow between the surrounding sand mountains, sending the sand at the foot back to    8    top of the sand mountain,and saving the Crescent Spring from    9    (wallow)by quicksand.

The ancient Silk Road once passed by the Crescent Spring. And today, it has become a romantic paradise for    10     (visit).