1 . When I was a kid, my parents sent me to a summer camp in New Hampshire. At the _________ we did tons of great things like swimming, sports and archery, but for me, the most memorable experience was an overnight trip of mountain climbing. If you’ve ever _________ a mountain, you know it’s a physical challenge, especially when you’re carrying your food and shelter on your back. When campers got tired, they _________ started complaining.

“How much farther is it?”

“I can’t go any further.”

“My _________ is too heavy. Can you carry it for me?”

The reply of the teachers was, “Suck it up (忍耐一下)!” The _________ is that the complaining campers were nowhere near the point of exhaustion. If they had been, the teachers would have noticed the signs and given them _________. The kids simply weren’t used to the physical challenge. Once they realized they weren’t getting any sympathy, they _________ the discomfort, and in most cases _________ having a great time. In my camp days, I don’t recall a single camper complaining at the top of the _________.

There are two ways to deal with an ____________ situation. You can complain, or you can make the best of it. If you complain, you might feel like you’re getting that ____________ energy out, but you’re probably not going to cause a positive change. It’s much more likely that your complaining will cause the ____________ of those around you. No one likes a complainer. They’re ____________ and they hurt the group. Complaining makes life ____________ for everyone. Instead, if you determine to master your own suffering, to move past it and focus on a ____________, it’s my experience that you’ll realize it wasn’t bad in the first place.

2 . Liz was quite excited these days. She was going to travel to Asia with her mom. Neither of them had ______ traveled out of the United States before. They were going to ______ to Hong Kong. They would travel on their cruise(乘船游览) ship to Shanghai and Beijing after ______ in Hong Kong for three days.

“Beijing is inland, so we have to _____ about a two-hour bus ride to get there from the port. I _____ the name of the port. Anyway, we’re going to ______ the Great Wall, the Tian’anmen Square, and the Forbidden City. It's going to be so ______!” she told her neighbor Jane.

From China, the cruise ship would go to Pusan in South Korea, and ______ to Tokyo. From Tokyo, they would _____ a flight back to Los Angeles.

“The trip is going to ______ three weeks. It's only going to ______ us about $ 2,800 each if we don’t _____ anything.” She laughed.

“I hope your trip is more _______ than mine was” said Jane. “I took a cruise to the Bahamas, _____ almost all the passengers got _______. I caught some kind of disease that made me ______ for almost three days. They ______ us a discount(折扣) that we could use on a _____ trip. No more cruising for me. That is really a pity.”

“We’ve ______ those things,” said Liz. “Mom and I are going to be ______ our hands every 30 minutes, and we’re bringing surgical masks with us.” Good preparations may help a lot in the travel and make it a pleasant and successful one.