Located in the northwest of Hunan Province, about 300 kilometers away from Changsha, capital of Hunan, Zhangjiajie,     1     covers a total area of 9,563 square kilometers, is a tourist city for its unique natural scenery and abundant tourism resources. Zhangjiajie     2     (award) the title of “World Geological Park” in 2004.     3     (actual), Zhangjiajie, honored as “the most fantastic mountain under heaven” and “a walking Chinese landscape painting”, is also widely praised as “    4     enlarged potted landscaping”, “a mini fairyland” and “a maze (迷宫) of nature”.

Since it was discovered in the 1980s, tourism industry     5     (become) the leading industry in Zhangjiajie, which has stimulated the development of other industries related to tourism,     6     (attract) a growing number of tourists     7     home and abroad.

At the same time, ecotourism has been developed rapidly in Zhangjiajie. When you come to Zhangjiajie, you can fully appreciate     8     (it) magnificent natural scenery and experience appealing folk custom as well as other thrilling tourist     9     (activity), and you will be deeply impressed by     10     the local people performed.

It must be an exciting, joyful and unforgettable tour to Zhangjiajie.

Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America,    1    includes three main areas: narrow, dry, flat land    2    (run) along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest. In the high plain area is Lake Titicaca, the highest lake in the world, on which boats can travel. Peru has abundant plants from desert grasses    3    vast areas of jungle.

Peru    4    (take) control of by Spain in the 16th century until 1821. So Spanish is    5    (official) spoken in Peru. The ancient Inca capital, Cusco, is a popular destination for the    6    (tour) as it is close to the famous Inca ruins of the city of Machu Picchu.

There are two especially interesting things    7    (admire) about the Inca civilization. The first is the roads and paths they built to connect    8    (they) important cities. Second, the Inca built wonderful cities,    9    there were no markets in these cities. One of the interesting    10    (question) of history is how the Inca lived without shopping.

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada     1     (visit) their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought     2     they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

Canada is the second     3     (big) country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city     4     (surround) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is     5     wet there that the trees are extremely tall.

After boarding the train, the cousins settled down in     6     (they) seats. They knew cowboys from all over the world     7     (compete) in the Stampede. Many cowboys had a gift for riding wild     8     (horse). They also learned that most Canadians lived     9     a few hundred kilometers of the USA border and that Canada’s population was only     10     (slight) over thirty million.

Once I went to a German city for vacation. The trip left a     1     (deep) impression on me than before. It was already dark outside when I arrived at the airport at 6 p.m. The first thing was to find a place to stay. I decided     2     (call) the youth hotel. But to use the phone I    3     (need) some coins. I asked a lady for help. To my surprise, she gave me three     4     (coin) to use. But all the phones there needed phone cards which could only be bought at post-offices during the daytime. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to call the hotel.     5     old gentleman helped me. He couldn’t speak English     6     understand that I needed to make a phone call. He showed me to the phone and inserted（插入）his phone card. I called the hotel and found a place to stay that night. The     7     (kind) of German people made me feel at home.

Wherever I went, I asked people for directions. It surprised me that almost every young German could speak English     8     ( fluent). Older Germans couldn’t speak English very well, but they would try to help me whenever they could. One middle-aged man even drove me to the place I was looking for. My experience in Germany completely changed     9     (I) impression of Germans.

I thought Germans were not     10     (friend) to foreigners before, but things have changed since then. The people in Germany couldn’t be more friendly.

The ancient town of Fenghuang is a place with beautiful village life in rural China. Having travelled directly from the busy city, I regard Fenghuang as a better     1     (choose) to have a breath of the fresh air.

When I paid     2     visit to Fenghuang, it was July. My friend and I     3    (excited) explored, walking along the ancient wall and crossing the beautiful, old bridges. People there were very     4    (relax). They were neither troubled by the hot weather nor by the tourists, walking, eating and playing outdoors.     5     the first evening we bought spicy, cold noodles and ate on the riverbank as we watched the sunset.

We stayed in a small hotel     6     was similar to many of the traditional     7     (building) in the village. Our room was built on high stilts(桩子) over the banks of the river. From our window we could hear the rush of the water and the sounds of of excited tourists     8     (travel) in small boats downstream. We saw people at work busy catching fish and young children playing in shallow waters.

Although there     9     (be) many visitors to Fenghuang, we did not see any other foreigner during our stay. After several days, I was still unwilling     10    ( leave).

Wang Kun and his sister Wang Wei had dreamed     1    taking a great bike trip. They decided     2    (cycle) along the entire Mekong River. Wang Wei insisted that they     3     (start) from Qinghai Province. Wang Kun said that would be very difficult, because their journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000     4     (metre). But Wang Wei seemed to be    5    (excite) about it and refused to change her mind,     6     (say) that it would be an interesting experience.

Several months before their trip, they went to the library. They found a large atlas with good maps     7    showed details of world geography. From the atlas they could see that the Mekong River     8    (begin) in a glacier on a mountain in Qinghai Province. The river is small at first. It moves     9     (rapid) as it passes through deep valleys. Sometimes the river becomes a waterfall and enters wide valleys. After it flows out of China, it continues to flow through Southeast Asia. At last, the river delta enters     10    South China Sea.

(课文缩写)Li Daiyu and Liu Qian were on a trip     1     Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal. They decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought of crossing the whole continent was     2     (excite).

Danny Lin, their friend, was waiting at the airport. He was going to take     3    (they) to catch “The True North”, the cross-Canada train. On the way to the station, he chatted about their trip. “You are going to see some great scenery. Going eastward, you’ll pass mountains and the thousands of lakes, and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities. Some people have the idea     4     you can cross Canada in less than five days, but they forget that Canada is 5,500 kilometres from coast to coast. Vancouver is Canada’s warmest part. People say it is Canada’s most beautiful city,     5    (surround) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbor     6    (make) Vancouver one of Canada’s most popular cities     7     (live) in. Now, its population     8     (increase) rapidly. The coast north of Vancouver has some of     9     oldest and most beautiful forests in the world. It is so wet there that the trees are     10     (extreme) tall.”

10 . Icebreaker to the North Pole is a new book     1     the well-known Chinese writer Bi Shumin. It describes her special trip to the North Pole last year.

Longing to go to the North Pole, she always heard about it when she was young. Bi, now in her 60s, has at last realized the dream to see it for     2     (she).

“This dream was hidden in my heart by myself in the past. It gradually became dusty, but it never disappeared.    3     I dreamed has finally come true.” Up to now, Bi     4     (travel) to 73 countries worldwide. Besides the North Pole, she made a trip to Easter Island, which is around 3,700 kilometres off the western coast of Chile. In the same year, she went to the South Pole. And she intends     5     (go) to other places in the near future.

As a writer     6     (show) a great interest in travel, Bi thinks traveling     7     (be) a part of our life. She also believes it is     8     only way to see different cultures and histories.

“If the view is the same every day, we will easily become     9     (bore). But if we go to a strange place, we will soon enter a condition of experiencing and thinking about different cultures. Travelling gives me much     10     (free).”