牛津高中英语模块二第二单元reading原文

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Toby wrote a letter to his friend Aihua about his summer holiday trip. Read the letter.
An adventure in Africa
•30th June
•Dear Aihua,
•How are you Sorry I haven’t written for so long. I’ve been quite busy planning my holiday with my older brother, Colin. Do you still remember the trip I told you about
I told you Colin and I would spend a few weeks travelling
before he goes to university. Well, now we’re ready to visit so many exciting places and do lots of astonishing things. We will go to Africa firs t. I can’t wait! Have you been there
•We leave London on 15th July, and we’ll be flying to Morocco, in northern Africa. We’re going to travel on camels through the Sahara Desert. It’s the biggest desert in the world----about the size of the US! I expect it will be very hot, dry and dusty there. We’ll be travelling by camel, with local guides, camping in tents and sleeping on the ground or in our big, thick sleeping bags. I’ve heard that we can see beautiful stars on clear
nights. I’ll bring a torch with me so that I’ll be able to see in the dark. The whole trip will take six days.
That means I’ll have to sit on a camel for almost a week----how uncomfortable! I hope my camel likes me!•After the trip by camel, we’re going to travel down the River Nile. We’ll st art at Lake Victoria. A little way down the river from Lake Victoria, the water actually gets quite rough. So, we’ll go white-water rafting. It’s quite dangerous, but exciting! You have to wear special clothing, a hamlet and a life jacket, just in case your raft gets turned upside down or sinks.
•After white-water rafting, we’re going on a trip to see wild animals in Kenya. We’ll live with the local people in their villages, and eat and drink whatever they do, including cow’s blood! Do you think I should dri nk it •Since we’ll be walking every day for almost two weeks, I’ll need to buy a large, strong, light backpack to carry my supplies of food and water. During the day, we’ll walk across the land, following the footprints of big animals such as elephants, lio ns, and giraffes. We’ll try to get as close as possible to the animals, even though they’re dangerous, so that I can take some really good photos.
But don’t worry about me----our guides will have guns with them to scare the animals away if they come too close.
I really want to see an elephant up close. Colin wants
to see a giraffe.
•After that, we’ll be moving on to Tanzania, where we’re going to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Mountain climbing can be very tiring, and many people feel sick as the air gets thinner, so Colin and I will make sure that we will get enough rest after sunset.
•The Africa part of our trip will take about four weeks.
Then we’re going to the Himalayas.
•I’ll send you postcards from all the different places we visit!
•Love,
•Toby。