Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the plane all the way, they {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（plan）to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought that they could cross the whole continent was {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(excite).

    Canada is the second biggest country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada's most beautiful city {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(surround)by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is so wet there that the trees are extremely tall.

    That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(seat). Their next stop was Calgary,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} is famous for the Calgary Stampede. They know that cowboys come from all over the world {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(compete)in the Stampede. Many cowboys have a gift {#blank#}7{#/blank#} riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live within a few hundred kilometers of the USA border and that Canada's population is only {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(slight)over thirty million, but now they {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(amaze)to see such an empty country. Then they arrived in {#blank#}10{#/blank#}urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes.

    Many people may think the Forbidden City, or the Palace Museum as it's also called, is{#blank#}1{#/blank#} old-fashioned museum{#blank#}2{#/blank#} in recent years, the museum has been working hard {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（promote） Chinese cultural heritage among young people.

    The museum's online store now offers special cultural and creative {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（product）. For example, in 2014, it started to make T-shirts that look like an emperor's coat. It also sold earphones that look like the necklaces {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（wear） by ancient officials.

    The museum has also launched an app called A Day of an Emperor. When using{#blank#}6{#/blank#}people are taught about a regular day in the life of an emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Last year, a documentary titled Masters in the Forbidden City {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（become） popular online. The documentary is about the people {#blank#}8{#/blank#} job is to repair the relics in the museum. Many of these workers are young, and some are even {#blank#}9{#/blank#} their 20s.

    Some other museums across the country, such as the National Museum of China{#blank#}10{#/blank#}（inspire） by the Palace Museum's efforts in the past five years and are working on similar projects of their own.

    I went backpacking through Italy many {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (summer) ago. There I had the opportunity to taste some of the best cherries in my life. I remember {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (ask) the fruit farmer, “ {#blank#}3{#/blank#}are these cherries from?” And she said they were from an orchard (果园) only twelve miles away. So I {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(jump) in my car and hit the road. At the orchard, and old man named Leopoldo, whose face was  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(beautiful) lined, told the beautiful story of a beautiful life well lived. He offered me all kinds  {#blank#}6{#/blank#}cherries from the orchard and they were {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (amaze). And that's when I realized something: the world is inspiring. The fruit is inspiring, if you let {#blank#}8{#/blank#} be. As the sun began to set, I said goodbye to Leopoldo {#blank#}9{#/blank#}his lovely family. My mind {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(fill) with berries then, and I was thinking about being a fruit farmer on my way home.

    In the past a gentleman would offer his seat {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a lady on a crowded bus.  But now, he will probably look out of the window or hide behind his newspaper, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(leave) the lady standing {#blank#}3{#/blank#} someone else gets off.  You can't entirely blame men for this change in manners. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(go) are the days when women could be referred to the weak. A whole generation has grown up demanding {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(equal) with men in jobs, in education and in social life.  Hold a door for some women {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you are likely to get {#blank#}7{#/blank#} angry lecture on treating women {#blank#}8{#/blank#} weaklings.  Take a girl out for a meal and she'll probably insist on paying {#blank#}9{#/blank#} share of the bill.  All these, according to some sociologists, will change men's attitude towards women and the conventional active politeness is perhaps slowly being {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(replace) by true consideration for the needs and feeling of women, so that men can see women as equal human beings.