Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small_________in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo_________somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out the map and drew a 1,500-mile_________along which I would be_________from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I_________ my plan with my dad, he_________as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous_________from him, he was all for it.

I had only been away from my home for three days, but there was an inner_________going on. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I really could_________ it. The other part of me was ready to__________to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another bicyclist who was quite a bit older than I was. He started his journey alone by bike at the southern part of Norway and last finished. I could tell he had a great sense of__________. It encouraged me not to__________.

As I listened to my favourite artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled with my feet. There was nobody around me for miles.____________, that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes, millions of them. My arms were so dotted with__________ that they looked like a topographical (地形的) map. But however__________it would be, nothing could stop my advance on the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

We must have been about halfway through our Contiki trip and we arrived in Rome, the capital city of Italy. On this particularly hot day after _________ many winding beautiful streets, we ended up at St. Peter’s Basilica.

Our tour guide jokingly said he had forgotten the _________ back to the hotel and asked if anyone knew how to _________ to the hotel. None of us did, but then Julie, an American girl, confidently put, “I can _________ it.” We all thought she was joking too, for Julie was nearly _________. But she said, “No. Seriously, I can take us all back.” Our team _________ her as she led us through the winding streets. Someone asked, “How can you _________ remember the way we _________?” She answered, “I just know. Feel how beautiful and cool the air is. We are by the fountain. This is where we turned left.” We continued. “I’m _________ freshly baked bread,” she said. “We turned right by this __________ and this is the café we passed by. I’ve recognized the __________ of that coffee machine. It is __________ to trust me.”

Sure enough, every turn had the things we hadn’t __________ before. Those things revealed themselves like hidden diamonds. We discovered more and more about the __________ of this city.

Finally, we made our way to the hotel. What struck me most was how Julie made us all see a rich and __________ city through her eyes. It made me experience travel in a totally new way.

Humans frequently fall ill owing to me. _________, they can hardly blame me; it is largely their own _________. A tired person may get  _________ especially when he goes to crowded places with polluted air. A sudden change in _________ is another factor. In hot summer, people turn on the air-conditioner upon returning home. They will catch a cold easily.

My latest victim is an energetic student. After school, he played football hard for two hours. Though _________, he still went to the cinema. Then he got back home and took a cold shower immediately.

I seized this golden chance to _________ him. He reacted, trying to _________ me, but I was already ___________ deep in his throat. He kept sneezing and his nose was ___________.  Although he put on some warm clothes, it didn’t work, for there were too many of us. Besides, his sore throat kept ____________ him, and he developed a cough to force me and my family out, but ____________.

The next day he couldn’t go to __________. He had lost his appetite and was not as ____________ as before. His mother made him orange juice every few hours for more vitamin C, which would help his ____________.

For two days he was ____________ by his mother. As he rested more, his defense strengthened and I began to feel the ____________. I knew I had to  ____________ him before long. But I am not the one who gives up easily, and I made every effort to fight back. ____________, it was my turn to feel ________ now, for his defense system was starting an all-out attack against me. I became ____________ and finally my time was over.

Do you know what I am?