题目内容：

阅读下面材料，在空白处填写1个适当的单词或括号内单词的形式。

I’ve been fascinated by elephants 1.I was a child, and as an adult, I’ve been able to go on traveling in Africa and spy them from the safety of a car. But it’s been my longtime wish 2.(visit) the conservation area of the Golden Triangle to get up close, and 3.(hopeful) even hands-on, with the elephants here. I got a chance to fulfill my dream in the summer of 2019, 4.I was excited just about being in a jungle paradise with these 5.(intelligence) giants. But then I discovered the just-opened Jungle Bubbles and jumped at the chance to spend sundown to sunup 6.a large number of elephants as my nighttime 7.(companion).

Walking along the Mekong River on the way to the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort was a fantastic adventure in 8.(it). And then, as I arrived at the hotel’s dock, I 9.(spy) an elephant trunk just beyond the riverbank, and then another, and another. A 10.(welcome) committee of elephants were chewing bamboo and waiting to say hello as I walked into the elephant paradise.