Ancestry Travel

Everyone loves a holiday! A little time off for some much-    1    (need) R&R(rest and relaxation)can be exactly the thing to re-energize and refresh. That said, if you’re struggling to think of your next destination then look no further. Don’t waste time     2     (debate). Let your blood decide.

Everybody has a lineage(血统). Recently, finding out more     3     our family origins has become popular. By the start of 2019, 26 million people     4     (take) an ancestry DNA test at home, according to a report by MIT Technology Review. They believe by 2021 this number will have risen to 100 million.

This trend     5     (notice) by opportunistic travel operators. Some are looking to provide a service that both allows people to trace their heritage—by literally going back to their roots—and travel to the destinations     6     their ancestors originated.

Recently, Airbnb, an online lodging market place, has partnered with 23andMe, a DNA testing and analysis company,    7     (offer) recommendations that encourage travellers to walk in the footsteps of their forefathers. And they aren’t the only ones.

The Shelbourne hotel in Dublin has its own “genealogy butler(家谱管家)”. Hellen Kelly offers consultations to help guests trace their Irish line of descent(后代)using official records,     8     allows them to “fill in the blanks of their Irish ancestry”, she told Good Morning America.

The Conte Club, a luxury travel company, offers custom itineraries(行程)based on DNA tests. “These experiences are about exploring deeper into     9     we really are,” says Conte Club CEO Rebecca Fielding in an article in the Condé Nast Traveler. “It might be the most meaningful trip we can take.”

So next time you think of going on vacation, why not take a DNA test first?     10     you know how far your family has come, take the time to holiday back.

Shanghai Disneyland, Zhejiang’s Hello Kitty Park and Dalian Discoveryland Theme Park are on the list     1     grows quickly. Theme parks are becoming big business in China. China Wanda Group has built     2     (it) 11th “Cultural Tourism City” in Guilin, Guangxi. Carnival Group is planning     3     (build) ten more theme parks in China. And Dalian Haichang Group also wants to open four theme parks in the     4     (follow) five years.

China now has 300 theme parks or so nationwide. However, modern entertainment     5     (center) for family visits are still in short supply in many cities, so     6     number of large theme parks in China will still be     7     the increase. US-based company AECOM believes China will replace America to become the largest theme park market, having 221 million visits every year, twice as many as those in 2015.

But the industry is not     8    (actual) good. 70 percent of theme parks in China     9     (suffer) economic losses at the moment and 20 percent of them have nearly gone broke, according to a survey     10     (make) by Qianzhan Industry Research Institute.

Festivals are becoming more and more commercial, with businesses     1     (take) advantage of the celebrations. Online shopping websites and social media apps have made it much     2     (easy) for the public to spend more on gifts for their     3     (love) ones. Although some believe festivals should not be commercialized, others believe     4     increase in spending     5     (be) good for the economy and public happiness.

Festivals are an important part of society. They reflect people’s     6     (wish), beliefs, faiths and attitudes towards life. They are occasions that allow us     7     (relax) and enjoy life, and forget about our work for a little while. They help us understand     8     we came from, who we are, and what to appreciate. And if you study festivals     9     (careful), you may be surprised to find that different cultures actually have a lot     10     common after all.

More and more children are suffering from eco-anxiety, which is     1    problem that causes people to worry a lot about the future of Earth and the life on it. They worry about climate change,    2    (pollute) and the loss of biodiversity. This has urged education experts     3    (call) for more teaching in schools about climate change, wildlife and the environment. So necessary is knowledge of them nowadays     4    experts believe it should be taught to all year groups.

The Teach the Future campaign finds that only one in four schoolchildren    5    (feel) they know enough about the climate crisis. It says this is leading to move children    6     (struggle) with eco-anxiety and worrying about the planet. A conservation organization, Earth Rangers,    7    (take) action to address the problem of eco-anxiety since it noticed that.

It says, Eco-anxiety does have a big effect    8    children in many ways. This includes feelings of fear and hopelessness. It is    9    (importance) to research and understand the ways in which we can help children deal with these feelings     10    (effective). In the meanwhile, schools should create conservation activities and help children teach their parents how to protect nature.

The average cost of raising a child until the age of 18 was 485,000 yuan in China in 2019,     1     is higher than many countries including the US, France, Germany and Japan.     2     (compare) with 13 other countries in Europe, Asia and America, China ranked the second among all these countries in expense of raising a child to the age of 18. The report said that is one of the main factors preventing couples from considering     3     (have) a child. Experts warn China’s aging population will put pressure     4     the health and social security systems. The decreasing birth rate will     5     (deep) affect China’s economic growth potential and     6     (it) welfare problems.

New policies in 2021 encourage families to have up to three children,     7     China’s birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1, 000 people in the same year. That is the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the information in 1949.

Three major     8     (measure) — cash rewards, housing subsidies (补贴) and baby care centers     9     (expect) to improve China’s birthrate. Some areas have been giving couples money for having     10     second or third child.

Ms. Mary was over eighty,     1     she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact that she had never    2    (punish) for a driving mistake in her thirty­five years of driving,

Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the     3    (policeman) in it saw her pass a red light without     4     (stop).

When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her     5     (serious) and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason why she had not stopped     6     red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak with old age, so she had simply not seen it.

When the judge had finished     7    he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing (缝纫包). Without saying a word, she     8    (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.

When she had successfully done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive     9     car well, and you have no doubts about your eyesight. ”

The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary was dismissed, and     10    (she) record remained unbroken.