In 2015 my husband and I spent some days traveling in Sahara Desert. I was super ______ to ride a camel for the first time and spent a night in a tent in the desert.

______, the ride started with me hanging upside down from the saddle (鞍) with one ______ in the air. Bob, my camel, had decided to stand up ______ I could settle in. I held onto the saddle ______ as the guide pushed me up onto the camel’s back. Bob______a sound of disapproval and we rode off. I thought it would be bumpy (颠簸的); but it was a very ______ journey all the way ______ the fact that the camel in front was having a bad case of gas.

After dinner, we returned to the tent for sleep. Even in several thick blankets, I was _____ from head to toe while my husband fell asleep straight away. Thankfully, I drifted into dreamland gradually, only to be ______ by an unusual noise, followed by a(n)______ smell. I tried to go back to sleep, but another unpleasant smell and more _____, which went on for hours.

After what felt like a ______ night, it was time to rise to watch the sunrise. I dragged my sleepy body out. There, ______ just outside was Bob, who made direct eye contact with me and I promised I ______ a broad grin on his face.

While traveling, chances are that you stay at a hotel or a family member’s house. But have you ever thought about staying in a stranger’s ____?

This might sound ____, but it’s actually a trend that’s becoming popular around the world, including China.

Lodging rental (借宿出租) companies like Airbnb are helping people look for cheap ways to ____. This website allows people to rent out their ____ rooms or apartments as an alternative to ____ in over 190 countries.

Created by young American men Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb is a good example of a ____ economy. Through the Internet, people share ____ such as cars, apartments and ____ their expertise (专门知识).

___ post information about the location, prices, descriptions and pictures. Guests can go to the ____ and find their favorite place to stay. Users ____ their opinions on their stay so that people know whether a place is good or not.

A man in New York named Jonathan Powley even rents out his ____ for $22 (140 yuan) per night through Airbnb. This is no ____ car. Powley took out the car seats and changed the ____ to look more welcoming. He keeps it clean and puts flowers in it every day. He provides snacks and tells travelers where they can go and shower.

But Airbnb does have some ____. Sometimes you end up living with a stranger or it is not as ____ as it looked like online. ____, hosts sometimes get mad when they get home and it’s a complete ____.

In China, Airbnb operates in five ____ including Beijing and Shanghai. The country has seen a major ____ in Airbnb users in the past year.

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.