Travelling alone can be a little frightening. However, this time is _______. Last week I had a holiday from work, but all my friends were occupied and none of them had the same_______ as mine. Such as it was, I still booked a train ride to Toronto and _______ a bed in a hotel for one week.

One week by myself! Would I be lonely? Would I be _______? Quite the opposite! In fact, there are many _______ that come from travelling alone. Firstly, I was able to do whatever I wanted. I enjoyed spending hours in museums that might have seemed _______ to some of my friends. I walked all around the _______, which some people may have found too exhausting. Instead of _______ someone else to remember _______ or to suggest activities to do, I discovered my independence and ________ map-reading skills that I didn’t know I had. I could   ________ and go to sleep when I wanted. Being in the safe environment of a hotel with like-minded __________ also gives a great opportunity to meet new people from all over the world, which can help conquer ________

I found that there were also some disadvantages of travelling alone ________ the benefits. I missed having someone to talk to and to ________ ideas with. Experiences are often more enjoyable if they are ________, and part of the fun of travelling is the ________ that you have with your friends or families afterwards. ________, eating in a restaurant or cooking in the hotel alone is less fun.

I am very ________ of myself for travelling alone and I had a fantastic time in Toronto. I would rather be by myself than with someone who is lazy and ________ to deal with in the future!

World Cup soccer fans in Qatar cannot spend all of their time watching matches. So some of them ________ the desert outside Doha for camel rides and ________. They want to have a tourist experience between games. Business is ________ for the animal handlers. They are making much more money than usual. ________, the interest is causing trouble for the camels.

Ali Jaber Al Ali has been in Qatar for 15 years. He ________ up loving camels and can identify them by their faces. On a normal day, his company would ________ at most 50 rides. But in recent weeks, he and his team are giving 500 rides in the morning and 500 in the evening. There is a lot of money ________ in. Al Ali said, “Thank god, but it is a lot of ________.”

Before roads were built, camels were important to ________ and trade in Qatar. Now they are ________ used in racing and giving rides. Al Ali can ________ when they are tired. The camels will sit back down after standing up. In ________ times, the camels can ________ after every five rides, but now, they give 15 or more rides ________. With little time to rest, the camels are ________ by making loud sounds.

The day ________ for Al Ali at 4:30 in the morning, for tourists want to get a photo at ________. But not every customer is ________. Pablo Corigliano from Argentina was hoping for a more authentic ________ “I thought I would be crossing the desert,” he said, “but when I arrived, I saw a(n) ________ tourist point.”

In the UK travel is an enriching life experience that will make your resume stand out amongst other applicants. Travel is not simply a pursuit of____ but also “character-building”，“defining” and potentially “career-boosting”.

Most of the people I know here at university ___ the desire to travel and escape the stress surrounding us. But I don’t think, as UK students, we can blame our addiction to international travel simply on a stressful life. Yes, I have a lot to handle and it’s a fine___ act managing my part-time job, my degree and my social life to a perfect level. In a truly open world, we can get anywhere, see anything and experience every culture under the sun, at the click of a button, the purchase of a ____

Many people I met while working in China were surprised at the number of countries I’d travelled to. Compared to friends and family I consider myself vastly ____. I’ve never set foot across the pond in the U.S.A and Canada, let alone South America and even within Europe my checklist of destinations is far from____. I was also met by____at how little travelling I had done within my own borders. This was something I had not really considered before. How much of my own country had I really seen and experienced? To those from a place as vast and varied as China, Britain was really so ____in comparison and so to have spent 20 years there and not seen every part of it was quite surprising.

I had a conversation with a Chinese colleague over the reasoning behind our use of golden Cotswold stone, which sounds dull for most people. As a student of history, I found anything____fascinating. However it was not the stone within British cities I found interesting. What was curious was that it was something I had never even considered, and yet here was someone____on something I had simply taken for granted.

We continued our discussion, yet I was left____that I could not answer her question. In China, as well as a wealth of new culture that fascinated me, I discovered that there were parts of the UK’s culture, history, the very structure of my identity that were so different, so unique from China that I also____a newly found interest in my own heritage.

In this respect, travelling enables you with two things. Firstly you develop a(n) ____with new cultures, understanding customs, experiencing cuisines and absorbing the sights and smells of every new city. For many employers this____to new locations is seen as tremendous in your personal resume. But alongside increased employability, through international, cross-cultural conversations, you develop an interest in your own history, culture, and customs. You return to your home____ an understanding of other people’s fascination with it and your own sense of love for its peculiarities.