UNIT 4. HOLIDAYS AND TOURISM - Exercise 1

Read the following passage about “Travelling online “ and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks
If you haven't got time to go travelling, you can still enjoy it by following a traveller's experiences on their blog.
Here are three of the most interesting and unusual globetrotters online!
Α. At the age of seventeen, Alex Chacón set off from his home in El Paso, Texas and went for a motorbike ride. Alex's thirty-day tour of the USA took in California, Washington, and Florida and gave Alex an aim in life: ___(1)___. Although Alex usually travels alone, he has shared his experiences on his blog. While travelling, Alex videos himself doing all sorts of activities against breathtaking backgrounds of remote jungles, deserts, and mountains. On one trip, he filmed himself by moving in a 360° circle so that all the famous landmarks would be included.
During Alex's motorcycle expeditions, he regularly stops to take part in volunteering projects at orphanages that he comes across on his route. Furthermore, he uses his blog to raise donations for orphans. Alex is now planning to cross Africa, Europe, and Asia. It seems that by the time he's thirty, ___(2)___.
B. Dutch actress Manon Ossevoort has dreamed of travelling from Europe across Africa to the South Pole for years, and she chose a slow form of transport: a tractor. Manon only averaged 5 km/h as she drove, ___(3)___. She would explain why she was going to the South Pole and ask people to follow her blog and write down their own dreams. She promised to build a snowman when she arrived at her destination and leave all their dreams inside it.
The idea was popular, and Manon received thousands of dreams on pieces of paper and in emails. Finally, on 9 December 2014, ___(4)___. She then built a snowman and left a time capsule inside it with all the dreams she had collected.
C. Have you ever travelled with no luggage? That was the question Rolf Potts aimed to answer on the 'no-baggage challenge.' However, the task wasn't simply a question of going off for a week to soak up the sun on a beach. Rolf had to travel 50,000 km by plane and get around eleven countries in 42 days ___(5)___.
(Adapted from Global friends)