视听说2(第三版)Unit2_P35The value of traveling

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视听说教程2（第三版）

Passage 2 (P.35)

I have never been able to understand people who don’t see the point intraveling. The common reason is that traveling is a waste of  time and money. I’ve heard some are 1) scaredto travel too far away. I can’t help but feel sorry particularly for those who2) perceive the experience of seeing a new place as a 100 percent 3) negativeone. Telling them stories about unusual encounters doesn’t 4) result in theexpected curiosity but a “Why would you wanna go there!?” It makes me 5) losefaith in humanity. Experience is the best teacher and knowledge is power. The thingstraveling can teach you are beautiful because you learn to trust in what yousee rather than what you are told. 

It was Mark Twain who said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry andnarrow-mindedness,” which in my mind 6) goes down as the closest to the truthabout traveling. Too bad there aren’t enough people with the means to travelactually doing it. If you have the means to go abroad, you should do it despitegoing out of your comfort zone. You might realize why you loved it once you’reback home. 

I think traveling is also the best thing you could do if you feel 7)depressed at home, don’t know what to do with your future, your life, yourpartner – anything. Once you are away, 8) preferably somewhere very new andunknown, you are forced to 9) adapt and meet people. This works especially ifyou travel alone. A new life and especially the new relationships you build,even if only for a short period of time, 10) reveal opportunities and views younever would have thought of and had otherwise.

Key

(1)  scared

(2)  perceive

(3)  negative

(4)  result in

(5)  lose faithin

(6)  goes down

(7)  depressed

(8)  preferably

(9)  adapt

(10)  reveal