Hello, I am Alice. This year my family had __________ eight-day holiday. I went to Hainan __________ my family. It’s a beautiful seaside city. We __________ there for five days. We visited Tianya Haijiao on the __________ day. It was sunny and very hot. So we went __________ in the sea with our parents. On the second day, we went to Wanquan River. The water was __________ and the air was fresh. On the third day, we found many beautiful seashells(贝壳) near Wuzhizhou Island. The following days, we went to many __________ beautiful places. We saw different __________ fruits like pineapples, coconuts, mangoes and so on. We __________ ate a lot of seafood. It tasted delicious. We all liked it very much. I really enjoyed __________ in Hainan, I want to go there again.

If you read a newspaper or listen to a news report recently, you may hear or read a strange word “staycation”. Staycation is a new word. The American people use it to ________ a vacation very close to your own home, or simply staying at home during your vacation. It is the combination (组合) of the word “stay” and “vacation”. In recent years, staycation has become very ________ because of the heavy traffic during the vacation. The word has already been ________ to the Oxford English Dictionary.

This summer, I had a staycation in my own town. During the staycation, I didn’t go anywhere far away, ________ I still had a great time. The ________ thing I did was to improve my ping-pong skills. I ________ a ping-pong club. I had to get up at 7 a.m. and then got to the club for training every day. The coach taught me many ________ skills. I also made many new friends there! The second thing I did was relax myself. I went to a nearby ________ with my parents.

We stayed inside a wooden house for about a week. We could see the wonderful sea and the beautiful beach with golden ________ outside the windows. We played ball games on the beach and swam in the sea. We really enjoyed _________ .

Now I understand why a staycation is so popular. Sometimes, you don’t need to go far away. As long as you make good plans, you can relax and have fun nearby. Why not have a try?

I went to Australia for my summer holiday with my parents last year. I was so excited about the ________.

We did many things there. The first day, we ________ Sydney. We had some ________ food for lunch there. After lunch, we went to a big ________. We saw tigers and koalas. The animals weren’t ________ of people.

________ that, we had a walk and we had ________ in a restaurant. We went back to the hotel to rest ________ 9:00 in the evening. I was very ________. But I really ________ a good time. I hope to go there again.