Eighteen-year-old Katy Ross was born in Nepal, a small country north of India. Katy ______ school eight months ago and soon she will go to university. She loves traveling and decided to visit Asia ______ she goes to university.

Katy is living with a family in the capital of Nepal. She ______ a lot about the country after she stayed there for four months. The family has two children but many uncles and cousins live with ______ in their big house near a ______. All the classes in this school are in English, and the students began to speak English at the ______ of six. The older children speak English very ______. Katy taught writing, reading and art, all in English, and she thinks the children like these lessons best, too!

Katy didn’t have much time to ______ Nepal, but soon, she will stop teaching and travel around Nepal ______ a friend. “After that,” Katy says, “We’ll visit more countries in Asia. We’re not ______ which ones yet. I will decide it next week.”

It’s 8:00 am on Saturday. My _______ are taking a trip（旅行）. We are at the seaside. My grandparents are ________ in the sea. They do some exercise（锻炼）every day, and they are very _______. I’m playing with my _______ on the beach（沙滩）. She enjoys the sun a lot. My little brother is making a _______ on the beach. He wants a big house very much. My father is drawing a nice picture. He is good at drawing because he is a(n) _______ teacher. My mother is lying on the beach and enjoying listening to ________. She likes country music. She is very _______ and relaxed（放松的）. Look at those women. They are _______ beach volleyball. That’s very interesting. I also like it. What about those men? They are enjoying a boat game. It’s also very ________. Everyone is happy on the beach now.

Two years ago, my brother James and I set out on a hike through Chute Canyon, one of the most difficult routes in the mountains in Utah, in the US. We were hiking lovers and had ___________ doing this route for a long time. However, we had no idea of the terrible adventure that was waiting for us.

We ___________ the first part without problems. Then it started to snow and the rocks became slippery. All of a sudden, as I was helping my brother down a huge rock, he slipped and fell into a pool. Unfortunately, he had landed on a rock just below the surface and his leg broke. I climbed down and ___________ pulled him out of the water. Night was coming and the temperature was falling but my brother couldn’ t move. Feeling helpless, I decided to head for the _________ camp for help, so I left James with some warm clothing and the rest of the food. It had been raining and to my horror, I discovered that the canyon was flooded. But I had no choice, I had to struggle on, soaked and freezing, unable even to think clearly. At one point I got lost, wasting precious hours.

At two-thirty the following afternoon, I finally arrived at the camp. The ___________ had taken twenty-two hours and I was exhausted and starving. However, I managed to call for help and twelve hours later rescuers reached James. Thankfully, he was still alive and his leg was not seriously damaged. We were hiking again a year later, amazingly---___________ we’ ve never been back to Chute Canyon!