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Book3-Unit4 How do you get to school?

Reading Comprehension

A

It seems that traveling is very important in modern life. The fastest way of travelling is by plane. You can travel by plane in one day to places which is took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.

Travelling by train is slower than by plane, but it has its advantages. You can see the country you are travelling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars. They make even the longest journey enjoyable.

Some people prefer to travel by sea sometimes. There are large liners or riverboats. You visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. Ships are not so fast as trains or places, but travelling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday.

Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever you wish where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why travelling by car is popular for pleasant trips , while people usually take trains or places when they are travelling on business.

1.What does the passage mainly talk about?

2.How many kinds of transportations can you find in the passage? What are they?

3.What does the author think of these transportations?

1)Travelling by plane is the _____________way.

2)Travelling by train can make the long journey _____________.

3)Travelling by sea is a _______way to spend your holiday.

4)It is _________ to travel by car because you can make your own timetable.

4.If you travel on business, what will be the best way for you?

5.Match the following words with the similar words according to the passage?

1)Advantage a trip

2)Journey happy

3)Liners schedule

4)Pleasant good things

5)Timetable ships

B

Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Most people feel that they are poor without cars. Though he is poor, he doesn’t feel really poor when he has a car.

Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars. Maybe, he didn’t know how much the car was going to affect the United States. The cars made the United States a country on wheels. And they have helped to make the United States a rich and modern country.

The car has become popular in the United States today. The country is a very large one. The Americans like to move around in it. It is the easiest and cheapest to travel in cars. With a car, people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.

Answer the following questions:

1)What do American people think of cars?

2)What do cars mean to the United States?

3)Is it the best way to travel by car in America? Why?