As the morning sun went above the hills, Liu Dachun’s wife was guiding her cow through the wetland, while Lu’s daughter, a college art student, spotted the pair and     1    (pencil) a quick drawing.

Shiyanping, a traditional Tujia village, has 182 well-preserved buildings    2    (construct) in the typical wooden building style,     3     (most)built in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 2013, the ancient architecture complex    4    (recognize) as one of the nation’s major historical and cultural sites.

In recent years, the village’s unique building complex, as well as other Tujia cultural activities, have attracted a stream of tourists. The village received more than 100,000 visits and achieved     5    income of about 5 million yuan from tourism in 2022.

Liu Dachun, a skilled farmer, is hard at work preparing for spring plowing (犁地). He has tried out the rice-fish farming system,     6     not only benefits the environment but also local residents. According to Wu, fish raised in rice fields are more popular among consumers as they are environmentally-friendly — the fish waste can add natural fertility (肥料)to the soil    7    hence promote rice output. Quan Xiping,another 59-year-old villager, was among the first in the village    8     (establish) a family-run hotel. Meanwhile, his son started an online specialty store, capitalizing on the rapid     9     (grow) of rural tourism in the area. His e-commerce business is working more efficiently due to the village’s    10     (rise) appeal.

8 . When it comes to family holidays in Australia, most people look to hot spots such as Sydney or the Gold Coast. However, Perth makes for a strong competitor, with plenty of museums and theme parks to keep the kids entertained, as well as historic sites and botanical gardens.

To give you a travel guide, we take a look at the best things to see and do in Perth.

King’s Park

Located in the heart of Perth’s business district, the four-square-kilometre park is perfect for spending an afternoon and making the most of the sunny weather. Here you’ll find plenty of picnic spots, play areas for little ones, and a host of activities and things to see. However, if you only visit one thing, make it the park’s impressive botanical gardens where you’ll find colorful plants.

Bibbulmun Track

Hikers, this one’s for you! This track is one of the world’s great long distance walks. Along the way you can expect amazing scenery, comfortable campsites, and a host of exciting wildlife and plants to look out for.

Perth Mint

You can discover a century’s worth of metals from gold to silver and even Coca-Cola bottle caps here. There are plenty of activities too from a live gold pouring session that you can watch to countless exhibitions.

Perth Zoo

The unusual creatures at the Perth Zoo are sure to keep small children’s attention! Giraffes, lions, elephants and monkeys are just some of the wildlife living in the zoo, which focuses on protecting various species.

9 . Who’d let a stranger stay with them? A lot of people, as you can see.

If ever any anxiety existed – and there is always a sense of anxiety when ________ into the unknown – it disappeared when my first host met me at the train station in Helsinki. Ari looked like my idea of a ________ Finn: tall, golden hair, and blue-eyed. However, Finns were also supposed to be ________ reserved. Ari was anything but. He was lively, _________ me a warm welcome and hiking with me to his apartment, _________ he showed me the sleeper sofa, served me tea, and also handed me a _________ with an instruction to come and go as I pleased. If this was what couch surfing was all about – ________ and welcome, then I had gotten off to an impressive start.

I quickly discovered one of the bitter-sweet aspects of couch surfing: having to say goodbye so soon _________ getting to know somebody. _________, I had miles to go before I slept, and so, after two days, I _________ to my train and the coastal city of Turku, where my next host, Juri, met me. Thin and wild-haired, Juri was the anti-Ari, but no less __________. He wanted to hang out and _________ a big part of his day to showing me around his city. In another city, a family of five received me like a long-lost _________, and chatted with me into the night. Now they are always asking when I will be _________.

As I boarded my next train for the north of the country, I began to think about this couch-surfing idea. What __________ these people to open their homes to strangers? I _______ that there was a burning curiosity, but also a wish to _________ to those in need and lend a hand to like-minded folks who might, at some level, _________ their own lives.   

Before I left for my Finland adventure a friend asked, “Aren’t you afraid?” I wasn’t sure of an ______ response then, but I am now: Of what? If couch surfing taught me anything, it’s this: Most people are good. Most people are generous. And there is a basic human tendency to __________.