1 . Everyone loves travelling, right? Unfortunately, money can sometimes be a problem. Here are some tips for gaining better travel experience, regardless of your bank savings!

Tip 1: Decide where you’ll go based on your budget.

The cost of your trip can depend greatly on where you want to go.     1    . For example, countries like France and the UK can be pretty expensive to visit. By contrast, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia are cheaper and still offer great cultural experiences.

Tip 2:     2    .

Yes, everyone loves the luxury of a five star hotel. But sadly, in a lot of places, this is just not realistic for those on a budget. That’s why whenever I travel to countries which are expensive, I choose to stay in hostels or campsites. Hostels are a sure way to meet potential travelling companions while also saving money.     3    .

Tip 3: Don’t always rely on restaurants.

Another advantage of staying in hostels(招待所)is that you will always have access to a kitchen. Eating in a restaurant can be very expensive,     4    . Many cities have markets where you can buy fresh food and vegetables on the cheap, and you can even try to make the popular food of the country.

So you see, if you come prepared, you can easily travel the world,     5    .

The Silk Road was a passage for the transportation of silk in ancient times. Lots of relics on the road can still     1     (see) now. From the relics, tourists can see the outline of the ancient metropolitan (大都会的) areas along     2     fantastic road. In the tour packages, tourists can imagine themselves to be ancient merchants     3     ride camels in deserts.

The Silk Road is a long route,     4     Xi’an in the cast to Gansu and Xinjiang in the west. If it is your first trip to China, we     5     (sincere) suggest you should spend at least ten days visiting Beijing, Xi’an, Dunhuang, Urumqi and Kashi. You could get to know about the history of China and experience     6     (color) scenery along the Silk Road.

If you are an     7     (experience) traveler wanting to explore China fully, it is recommended that you     8     (travel) to Dunhuang, Zhangye, Jiayuguan, Turpan, Kashi and Urumqi to follow the footprint of Marco Polo. This route may take about 15 days. If you have only a one-week holiday, the     9     (choose) of three most famous cities will be fit for you.

Along the Silk Road route, Xi’an and Gansu are suitable to visit all year round. The best time     10     (visit) Xinjiang is from May to October because the weather is mild.

3 . Many Chinese Seek Family-friendly Travel

For this year’s Children’s Day on June 1, Deng Mo and his wife drove their son to the city of Suzhou, about 100 kilometers from Shanghai, where the family lives.

Many parents ________ spent the weekend with their children, according to a major online travel agency, Ctrip. The platform says ________ for family-friendly hotels increased nearly 60 percent year-on-year that weekend. Sanya, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou were among the top destinations.

Over 70 percent of parents travelling with children chose short-distance tours, and more than 80 percent took high-speed railways or drove. Family-friendly tours ________ up to 60 percent of domestic and overseas travel, a China Tourism Academy survey says. More than 80 percent of ________ believe travelling with children can bring joy to the whole family, and 96 percent express interest in such tours.

Deng has previously taken his son to Japan and Thailand. “It wasn’t ________ to travel with a 3-year-old,” Deng says. “He had a lot of ________ more than we did.” During their vacation in Japan, for example, his son fell sick, and the parents had to stay in the hotel for a whole day. Still, Deng hopes such tours will ________ his boy’s horizons.

Many parents ________ such trips as educational. Shanghai-based online travel agency Lvmama reports that bookings for tours involving museums has increased.

Shanghai resident Ji Hongjuan enjoys taking her 12-year-old daughter, Wen Lan, to China’s ________ sites and museums. In the past few years, they have visited such places as the Palace Museum, the Shaanxi History Museum, and the Nanjing Museum.

“I usually ask my daughter to be my ________ ,” Ji says.

“She searches for information about where we will visit and takes me there, which I think is a great way to ________ her curiosity.”

The family-travel market will continue to grow during the summer vacation from July to August, Ctrip and Lvmama ________

Ji Hongjuan plans to take her daughter to Sichuan Province, where they’ll visit the Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum and the Chengdu Wuhou Shrine because her daughter loves ________ Chinese poetry.

China Tourism Academy head Dai Bin says the market has great ________ . “Our surveys show many parents complain about destinations being too crowded during public holidays,” he says. “Over 40 percent say they’ re looking for more ________ travel products.”

4 . After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Benjamin Blume began to attend Sam Houston State University, USA. But he felt there was something missing. That all changed when Blume attended a study program abroad. With the help of the staff at the Office of International Programs and the Veterans Resource Center (退伍老兵资源中心), he was able to take seven study trips abroad, visiting 19 countries in just three years.

Blume’s first stop was Leipzig, Germany for a German language program in the summer of 2018. Later that summer, Blume visited Australia as part of the stars and galaxy (星系) course. “There was a major eclipse (日食) in Australia that summer and it was an amazing thing to see,” Blume said. “We also visited Wyoming after leaving Australia for the same course to see the sky.”

In the fall of 2018, Blume took off again this time visiting Bern, Switzerland for a business course. Blume returned for the 2019 spring term before his next adventure that summer in Tokyo for a month-long economics trip. “Tokyo was quite the experience and like nothing I had seen before,” Blume said. “I had never experienced so much culture and history as I did there.”

Blume went from Tokyo back to Germany, this time visiting Aachen for an economics program. After returning to the US and staying for a month, Blume travelled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for a three-week marketing program. Finally, Blume took his seventh and last study abroad trip to Auckland, New Zealand. “New Zealand was probably my favorite place to visit because the landscape is so diverse.” Blume added, “One day we hiked a glacier, which I had never done before. I also got to see where The Hobbit films were made.”

7 . The most unforgettable thing during my long summer holiday last year, of course was my trip ________ England. This was my first time to go abroad, so it really made me ________.

There were quite a lot of interesting places in England, ________ Oxford (牛津). When we walked around Oxford, we saw quite a lot of ancient buildings on ________ sides of the streets. One of the most famous tourist ________ in Oxford is Christ Church, it’s ________ one of the Oxford University’s 39 colleges. There is a huge hall in Christ Church, which was ________ as the dining hall at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter ________. I felt really excited when I heard this.

________ place that impressed me ________ during my trip was a place called Stratford upon Avon. It was a small town. Maybe you haven’t ________ it, but I’m sure you have heard about William Shakespeare — it’s the great man’s ________. In Srtatford upon Avon, I could ________ Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Shakespeare Countryside Museum, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and a lot of places that are connected with ________. I went to Shakespeare’s Birthplace. It was the house ________ Shakespeare was born and spent his early years.

I really enjoyed this nice trip to England, from which I learned a lot. I’m very happy that I could visit such an interesting country. I want to go there again in the future.