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Unit5 A TRIP ON “ THE TRUE NORTH”

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were ______ a trip to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal on the Atlantic coast. Rather than________(take) the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train from west to east across Canada. The thought ________ they could cross the whole continent was__________(excite).

Their friend, Danny Lin, was waiting _______the airport. He was going to take them and their __________（行李）to catch “ The True North” , the cross-Canada train. _______ the way to the station, he_________(chat) abou t their trip. “ You ’ re going to see some great __________(风景). __________(go) eastward, you’ ll pass mountains and thousands of lakes and forests, as well as wide rivers and large cities. Some people have the idea ________ you can cross Canada in less than five days, but they forget the fact ________ Canada is 5,500 kilometres from coast to coast. Here in Vancouver, you’ re in Canada’ s warmest part. People say it is Canada’ s most beautiful city, ____________(surround) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Skiing in the Rocky Mountains and sailing in the harbour make Vancouver one of Canada’ s most popular cities to live in. Its population is increasing _________(rapid) The coast north of Vancouver has some of the oldest and most beautiful forests in the world. It is ________ wet there that the trees are__________ （extreme）tall, some __________(measure) over 90 metres. ”

That afternoon ____________(在火车上) the train, the cousins _________ __________(安顿)in their seats. Earlier that day, when they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they___________(设法) to______ ________ ________(看见) some mountain goats and even a grizzly bear and an eagle. Their next stop was Calgary, _________ is famous________ the Calgary Stampede. Cowboys from all over the world come to compete in the Stampede. Many of them ________ ________ __________ _________(对…有天赋) riding wild horses and can win thousands of dollars in prizes.

After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize ________ Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live ________(在…内) a few hundred kilometres of the USA border, and Canada ’ s population is only ___________(轻微地) over thirty million, but now they were _________(amaze) to see such an empty country. They went through a wheat-growing province and saw farms_________ covered thousands of acres. After dinner, they were back in an

urban area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. The girls were _________(surprise) at the fact_______ ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because ________ the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has ________ fresh water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’ s total fresh water, and much of it is in the Great Lakes.

That night as they slept, the train rushed across the top of Lake Superior, through the great forests and southward towards Toronto.