高中英语：必修一unit3 课本、教材(人教版)

Unit 3

Travel journal

1 Which kind of transport do you prefer to use: bus or train? Think about the advantages and disadvantages of each form ol transport and fill in the following chart,

Transport Advantages

Disadvantages j

bus

train

ship

airplane

^Imagine that you plan to spend a holiday. Choose a place you want to visit* Think about the fare for different kinds of transport and decide how to get there. Then, get into pairs. Use these questions to make a dialogue about your holidays.

When are you leaving? Where are you etayng?

How are you going to...? How long are you staying In ...? When are you arriving In/at«.? When am you coming back?

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Many people live beside a riven How do they make use of it in their daily life? The world has many great rivers* If you

could follow the route of only one of them,

which one would you choose? Why?

Look at the map on page 18 and list the

countries that the Mekong River flows

through.

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Unit 3 Travel journal

JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONQ

Pm i THE. DRUM AND THE PUN

I My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and 1 have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she persuaded 5 me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese pan of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries. to Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too. After graduating from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister, "Where are we going?" It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it

15 begins to where it ends- Now she is planning our schedule for the trip.

I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really stubborn. Although she didn't know the best way of gettingto places, she insisted that she organize the trip properly. Now* I know thai the proper way is always her way, I kept asking her, "When are we leaving and when are we coming back?" I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet. Of

20 course she hadn't; my sister doesn*t care about details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a determined look - the kind that said she would not change her mind. When I told her that our Journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it. When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. I know my sister well.

25 Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it* Finally, I had to give in.

Several months before our trip, Wang Wei and 1 went to the library- We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world geography. From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan mountain. At first the river is small and the water is clear and cold. Then it