422 million people go on a tour during the National Day holiday, which     1    (mean) travel is back on the menu. Camping, featuring niche tourism with less human contact but keeping     2    (close) to nature, has become the height of fashion in vacationing since the outbreak of COVID-19. Ctrip data shows that during the National Day holiday, the orders within camping tourism increased     3     more than 10 times over the same period last year, of which local orders accounted for nearly 80%.

With such a camping trend, many white tents are protruding (突出) from suburban lawns (草地),     4     people sit around a table full of various cups, plates, dishes, drinks, and food nearby. Some campers even equip     5    (them) with a barbecue oven (烤炉). Children are chasing each other while adults are chatting and eating snacks.

Undoubtedly, camping has lots of benefits. Camping not only allows people to     6    (temporary) escape the city to enjoy nature, and build     7    (harmony) parent-child relationships via nature education, but it also makes people acquire     8     sense of ritual (传统的) social clock.     9    (compare) with the long trek of interprovincial tourism, camping is not limited by location and, more importantly, the     10    (long) of the vacation. Now there are impressive packages of camping that have been invented.

Children are spending an     1     (increase) amount of time indoors.     2     (compare) to their grandparents who would have spent most of their free time exploring the world outside their front doors, kids these days are more likely to     3     (find) at home. Computer games, television and tablets have replaced stick throwing, tree climbing and hole building as children spend more time indoors.

    4     (thank) to parental fear and a reduction in green spaces, the time     5     is spent outdoors tends to be parent-led nowadays. Parent-led play is very     6     (difference) from unstructured play and does not offer the same benefits.

Both     7     (be) important for children’s growth, but many families are finding less time for unstructured play. As homework, clubs and groups and screens are competing for our kids’ time, unstructured fun is left out in the cold.

Scientists have even created the term “Nature Deficit Disorder” due to the wealth of health problems that can develop from spending too much time indoors.

Unstructured play is just     8     important as outdoor play for child     9     (develop). It offers social, mental and physical benefits, as well as just being     10     fun way to kill time.

6 . At the last weekend of November,I drove to Fragrant Hills Park to see red leaves with my wife.Although the park announced it closed     1     (it) yearly Red Leaf Festival early on November 13,it was still very crowded. It     2     (report) that it received more than one million visitors during the Red Leaf Festival.

We were told four ways to the top of the mountain,each of     3     took 60 minutes to complete.We chose one way to get to the top.    4     (See) from the top,it looked very beautiful.    5     colorful the mountain is! Some trees were all red and some were covered     6     yellow.The yellow leaves were especially golden and     7     (enjoy).Then we visited Liulita, Xishangqingxue,Duojingting and so on.I think they were all     8     (well) worth visiting than many other attractions.

On the way,we met an old couple who came from America.They said that they had travelled in China for several     9     (month) and China was very great and beautiful.When I     10     (hear) what they said,I was feeling proud as a Chinese.

The Inferno is the oldest and most celebrated of all amateur ski races. It     1     (hold) every January, near MÜrren in Switzerland. Anyone can take part, as long as they belong to     2     ski racing club.

The Inferno was the     3     (invent) of a British businessman called Henry Lunn, who came up with the idea of the package holiday in the early 1900s and     4     (begin) taking groups of people to the Alps for winter sports. Henry’s son, Arnold, grew very fond of MÜrren and he founded a ski club there in 1924. Four years later, seventeen of the club’s members took part in the first Inferno race,     5     the top of the 2,970-metre Schilthorn mountain to MÜrren below.

In those early days, they used     6    (climb) for six hours from the railway station in MÜrren before the start of the race. Today,     7     (racer) use a cable car (缆车) which takes about twenty minutes. In the first race, the winning time for the fourteen-kilometre race was one hour, twelve minutes. These days it tends to be almost     8     (exact) an hour. Although the skiers are very much faster now, some things haven’t changed. The course,     9     is steep (陡峭的) and has sharp bends (急转弯), remains one of the most     10     (demand) and frightening in the world.

Thanks to the Chinese government scholarship, I was able to come to China and realize my dream as    1     international student. In my two years of Master's study, I collected a bunch of wonderful memories.

One of them was joining a hiking marathon or climbing to the top of a mountain. I did not win the marathon,     2     the sight of the beautiful landscapes along the way was enough for me. In China, I found that hiking was one of the best leisure     3    (activity) of Chinese people.

The visit     4     Zijin Mountain last year was the most challenging yet very memorable to me because of the bad weather in winter and the long hours of journey    5       ( reach) the top. The temperature at that time reached a freezing point. My hands were stone cold and my face    6       (go) very pale. When we reached the top, it was just so     7    (attract). The sunset view was the best of all. One of my friends took a photo of     8    (I) and my Chinese friend as if we were sharing the sun with our hands. We stayed on top for a while, until we felt that we should be leaving before we would     9     (total) freeze to death.

I believe that     10     (climb) mountains gives someone a sense of direction and a motivation to reach your goal no matter how hard or unimaginable it could be.

A group of our friends from church were planning a picnic, and it sounded like fun.I was a   single-mother with four    1     (child) then, so time was a bit tight for me.What did have that we could contribute     2    the picnic?Then a thought struck.I could make a cherry pie! A friend had given me two canned cherries     3    would make a very nice pie filling,so I worked at once .When   the cooking was done and served,it looked so good and the smell was     4     (wonder).

At the picnic,Stu,my then new boyfriend ,was the first     5     (take)a   bite of my pie.I saw a     6     (puzzle) look go across his face.Then he    7     (begin) to spit out cherry stones.It had not     8     (occur) to me that someone would can cherries without getting the stones out first.    9     embarrassing! Well, he married me anyway. And the cherry pie has been    10     inside joke for the past 48 years.

Ski touring is exactly that—touring on skis. It combines     1     best bits of skiing and mountaineering and provides the perfect way     2     (explore) the mountain in winter. The     3     (advantage) of ski touring are that you can really escape the crowds, enjoy the peace of the mountains and     4     (reward) with breathtaking views and exciting descents.

Ski touring involves both going up and down the mountain; both of     5     (they) present challenges and new skills are to be acquired. There is much to learn about getting up the mountain that improves efficiency and saves energy.     6    , (similar) you want to be prepared to enjoy going down, which means learning to deal with the variety of snow conditions you will face. Because all ski touring is very demanding, you must be     7     good physical condition. The fitter you are, the     8     (much) fun you will have.

Rapidly changing conditions and the human factors are the primary reasons for accidents. The human factors include stress, poor     9     (communicate), over-confidence and tiredness. You should always ski within the limits of your ability, and make sure you know     10     to navigate (导航) properly with map and compass.