1、话题背景抢先读Why do people travel?Why do people travel? There are many reasons one can think of when asked this question.One of the most common reasons why people choose to travel is to get away from their present situations and locations, either for a quick vacation or as a means of finding ones self. Ot
2、her answers you get may include “to enjoy new experiences, to learn and experience new languages, new food, and new cultures”Now people travel more because the economies are better and the advancements in transportation make it easier to do so. If family members do not live in the same place, other
3、family members would want to visit them. Visiting families and friends in different places is probably one of the most important reasons for taking time off to travel.Spending a few weeks of winter in a summer destination has also been gaining popularity. Most Americans can travel within the country
4、 to experience different seasons. For example, when its winter in New York or Maine, they can travel to the sunny parts of the country such as Florida or California.Travelling to experience a whole new culture is also a popular reason. The chance to be open to new sights, different people and cultur
5、es can give people the chance to challenge themselves and to find out new things about themselves.So, why do people travel? The reasons can be different but whatever your reason for packing your bags and jumping on the next train away from here, dont forget to enjoy.,阅读障碍词advancement n前进，进步；提升，升级； 预
6、付destination n目的，目标；目的地，终点popularity n普及； 流行；名气，名望，大众性challenge n挑战； 质疑 v质疑； 向挑战.Match the word with its meaning.1expertA半夜2product B被遗弃的3journey C训练4scenery D距离5shoot E射杀6distance F风景；景色7train G旅程；旅行8abandoned H产品9desert I专家10midnight J沙漠答案：15IHGFE610DCBJA.Write down the meaning of phrases in each
7、sentence.1As our plane took off, I told myself that I would absolutely return someday.起飞2Dave is short for David, isnt it？是缩写；简称3On May Day my classmates and I went to the Great Wall. We got on the bus in the early morning.上车4They were shooting at bottles on a wall.朝射击5This table is made of very goo
8、d wood.由制造6We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.在中间7She did not read any more, but sat there silently, staring into the distance.不再8When I said some people are stupid, I wasnt referring to you.指的是；提到.Write out the names of the following vehicles.1_2._3._4._5_6._7._8._9._
9、答案：1.bicycle2.bus3.ferry4.helicopter5.motorbike6.plane7.taxi8.train9.tram.Match the means of transportation.1Travel on roadAtram, train2Travel on rails Bmotorbike, bus, taxi, bike, truck3Travel on water Cplane, helicopter4Travel in the air Dferry, ship答案：14BADC.Fast-readingWrite down the main idea o
10、f each paragraph.Para.1My_first_ride_on_a_long_distance_train.Para.2The_scenery_along_the_railway.Para.3The_way_I_spent_the_time_in_the_train.Para.4Why_is_the_train_called_Ghan？Para.5Things_about_the_camels.Para.6The_fate_of_the_camels_today.Careful-readingRead the text carefully and choose the best
11、 answer.1The sentence “And what a ride！” in the first paragraph means “_”Athe writer enjoyed the long journeyBthe writer was made too tired from the long rideCthat was a long and dangerous journeyDhe had nothing to see but desert2The whole passage mainly tells us_Athe importance of the desert in Aus
12、traliaBhorses are of no use in travelling in a desertCits cruel to kill thousands of camelsDthe transport to the middle of Australia3Which is the RTGHT order of the following things?aA new railway line was built and the camels were no longer used.bAustralians needed a way to travel to the middle of
13、the country.cAustralians trained camels to carry food and other supplies.dThey tried riding horses to travel.Abdca BdbacCacbd Dcabd4Australians used to travel on camels for_Abusiness BshoppingCfarming Dpleasure5The writer talked a lot about camels in the text because_Athey played an important part i
14、n Australian lifeBshe was planning to travel on a camelCshe wanted to speak highly of the animalsDshe wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan答案：15ADAAD.Study-reading1We got on in Sydney and we got off in Alice Springs, right in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away
15、.句式分析right in the middle of Australia是Alice Springs的同位语；more than four thousand kilometres away相当于非限制性定语从句which is more than four thousand kilometres away。尝试翻译我们在悉尼上车，在4 000多千米以外的澳大利亚中部的爱丽斯斯普林斯下车。2In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. 句式分析句中whic
16、h allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem是which引导的定语从句，在该从句中含有一个if引导的条件状语从句。尝试翻译1925年，政府通过法令，允许人们在这些动物成为问题的时候射杀它们。对应学生课时达标训练(九)A阅读理解To see the world is one thing; to have someone to share it with is another. Indeed, travel becomes more interesting when you have a travel partner. A
17、 travel partner can be a close friend, a family member, a pal youve met online, or a business friend.You can have someone to talk toTraveling alone is fun, but wouldnt you feel lonely？Having a travel partner can remove the feeling of loneliness. This is especially true if you can get a travel compan
18、ion who is very familiar with the place youre traveling to. You dont have to ask any information from the locals, and you can increase the time you spend in the country._One of the major headaches in traveling is the costs involved. You cant simply ignore the rising price of hotels or plane tickets.
19、 You should also think about your daily needs, such as your food. Of course, you cant simply go back without bringing any souvenirs (纪念品) to your friends and family. All these can ruin your budget. However, when you have a travel friend, you can have someone to share the expenses with.You can meet a
20、 good friendHaving a travel mate is a good way of meeting a new friend or even a lifelong partner. You can never count the number of couples who actually found their way into each others heart while traveling together in another country.You can have someone to watch out for youWhen youre in a foreig
21、n land, youll never be really safe. You dont know the rules as well as the culture of the people. A travel mate will be perfect to remind you of your duties in the country and to watch your back just in case you get lost. So why dont you find a travel companion now?语篇解读：旅途中找好旅伴，可给旅游带来意想不到的好处。如何找旅伴呢？
22、1Whats the authors purpose in writing this passage?ATo introduce a travel company.BTo encourage us to have a travel partner.CTo explain how to be a perfect travel partner.DTo tell an interesting experience with a travel partner.解析：选B写作意图题。本文介绍了旅伴带来的好处，鼓励大家找旅伴。2Whats the best title for the 3rd paragr
23、aph?AYou can have someone to share the expenses with.BYou can know the local culture well.CYou can enjoy food with your partner.DYou can save money by bargaining together.解析：选A段落大意题。本段主要告诉我们旅伴可以分担花销。3Which of the following statements agrees with the authors opinion?ATraveling alone is not fun.BBuyin
24、g souvenirs isnt necessary.CMany people fall in love when traveling.DIts better to choose a stranger as a travel partner.解析：选C细节理解题。根据第四段“You can never count the number of couples who actually found their way into each others heart while traveling”可知答案。4Which of the following things is NOT mentioned
25、?AA travel partner can help you take care of your child.BA travel partner can help get rid of loneliness.CA travel partner can help you save money.DA travel partner can make you safer.解析：选A细节理解题。文中提到了旅伴可以使你摆脱孤单；可以分担你的旅途花销；可以使你的旅途更安全；但没提到A项。BWhy do you think people who live in some hot countries eat
26、very spicy (辛辣的) food? Is it because the spices make the food taste better? Is it just because their parents and grandparents and greatgrandparents liked hot food，or is there some connection between spices and healthy food?Researchers from Cornell University think that it is because spice plants hav
27、e some important chemicals. These chemicals can kill bacteria (细菌) which spoil food.“Most common spices can kill 75 to 100 percent of the bacteria in food，” explains one of the scientists.The bacteria grow more easily and spoil food more quickly at higher temperatures.For this reason, it is more dif
28、ficult to keep food from spoiling in hot climates.Do you like your food spicy? Your answer probably tells something about the country you come from.If you like spicy food, it is possible that hundreds of years ago，when there were no fridges, people in your country started using spices to keep the fo
29、od from spoiling.The traditional spicy dishes helped those people to live longer, healthier lives.Today, in a time of fridges, the spices just make the food taste good.语篇解读：文章讲的是人们喜欢吃辛辣的食物的原因。5The chemicals in spices keep food from spoiling by_Amaking food taste betterBmaking food hotterCpreventing
30、bacteria getting into foodDkilling bacteria in food解析：选D细节理解题。根据第二段提到“These chemicals can kill bacteria (细菌) which spoil food”可知它们可以杀死食物中的细菌，故选D项。6Food goes bad more quickly in hot climates because_. Acold temperature makes bacteriaBbacteria get used to hot foodChigh temperature helps bacteria grow
31、fasterDbacteria spoil food only at high temperature解析：选C细节理解题。根据第二段提到“The bacteria grow more easily and spoil food more quickly at higher temperatures”可知气温越高细菌越容易快速生长，从而导致食物的变质，故选C项。7According to the passage, spices are useful in the following things EXCEPT_Ahelping you to live longerBhelping to kee
32、p you healthierCmaking your food taste betterDreplacing fridges解析：选D细节理解题。根据最后一段提到“Today, in a time of fridges, the spices just make the food taste good”现今，在冰箱的时代，辣椒只是为了让食物更好吃，故选D项。CPeople who like travelling have their reasons. They believe that travelling can help them expand their field of view,
33、especially in the geographical and historical sense. They also think that touring will give them more chances to enjoy different kinds of food and experience new things that would never be brought by other activities. But those who dislike travelling also have some reasons.Travelling, in my opinion,
34、 does more good than harm. Most importantly, it broadens (使扩大) our mind. We can get in touch with other civilizations (文明), cultures, customs and ideas.Through history, most people travelled because of necessity (必要性) not for pleasure. People travelled just in order to remain alive. They searched fo
35、r food to eat or places to live in. They sometimes ran away from enemies. This is not to say that no one ever travelled just for the fun of it. In ancient times, for example, rich Romans travelled all the way to Greece to take part in the Olympic Games，and festivals. Of course, some people decided t
36、o travel just out of curiosity (好奇心)They wanted to find out what it looked like beyond the horizon (地平线)Also business travel has been going on for centuries. Traders could not only make money but also learn to speak several languages and be introduced to different cultures.So, travelling does enrich
37、 our mind and draw new ideas to us. There is no doubt that we can get much from it.语篇解读：旅游可以拓宽人们的视野，丰富人们的思想，从旅游中能获得巨大的好处。8The underlined word “expand” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “_”AwidenBprotectClose Ddecide解析：选A词义猜测题。根据第二段出现的broadens及最后一段的enrich，可以推测这里的expand表示“扩大，拓宽”之意，widen与之意思最接近。9Accord
38、ing to the passage，in the past most people travelled _Afor fun Bfor knowledgeCto get experiences Dto make a living解析：选D细节理解题。根据第三段首句“Through history, most people travelled because of necessity (必要性) not for pleasure.”可知在古代人们外出多是为了生计奔波，因此选D项。10In the writers opinion, travelling can be _Aexpensive Bfu
39、nnyChelpful Dtiring解析：选C推理判断题。作者主要讲了旅游带来的种种好处，第二段首句及最后一段都能看出他对旅游持积极肯定的态度，认为旅游很有益，故选C项。11Whats the main idea of this passage?ADifferent kinds of travelling.BTravelling enriches our mind.CWays to enjoy yourself while travelling.DThe advantages and disadvantages of travelling.解析：选B主旨大意题。作者在文中谈了自己对旅游的看法
40、，他认为旅游可以拓宽人们的视野，故选B项。My First Ride on a TrainMy name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydeny, Australia and Im 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a longdistance train. And what a ride! A friend and I travelled on the famous Ghan train. We got on in Sydeny and we got off in Alice Springs, ri
41、ght in the middle of Australia, more than four thousand kilometres away. We spent two days and nights on the train.The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundred kilometres of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fie
42、lds and the soil was dark red. After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago.The train was comfortable and the people were nice
43、. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers. I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes (Im studying Chinese at school). One night, at about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour. The stars shone like diamonds.Why is the train c
44、alled the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horses, but the horses didnt like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan is short for Afghanistan.Camels were much bet
45、ter than horses for travelling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products.The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government built a new railway line, so they didnt need the camels any more. In 19
46、25, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem. In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day.我的首次火车之旅我叫艾丽斯汤姆逊，来自澳大利亚的悉尼，今年18岁。不久前，我第一次乘坐了长途火车。一次多么美妙的火车之旅啊！我和一位朋友乘坐的是著名的Ghan火车。我们在悉尼上车，在离悉尼4 000多千米远的艾丽斯斯普林斯下车，它位于澳大利亚中部。我们在火车上度过了两天两夜。火车棒极了，食物很好吃。我们吃的美
47、味饭菜是由烹饪大师们做的！在最初的几百公里的旅行中，景色多姿多彩。一片片的田野，土壤是暗红的，接下来全是沙漠。阳光照耀，没有风，天空中也没有云彩。突然间，时空好像发生了转变。我们看到了一些被弃置的农场，这些农场建于100多年前。火车很舒适，旅伴们也很友好。白天，我坐着看窗外，有时和其他的旅客说说话。我会看看书，听听汉语磁带(在学校我学习汉语)。有一天晚上，大约是在半夜，差不多有一个小时我都在注视夜空。星星像钻石般闪烁着。这列火车为什么叫Ghan呢？很久以前，澳大利亚人需要一条通往国家中部的路。他们试着骑马，但那些马不喜欢炎热的天气和沙漠。150年前，他们从阿富汗带回一些骆驼。Ghan是阿富汗的缩写。对于长途旅行，骆驼比马好得多。多年来，驯化了的骆驼驮着食物和其他物品出去，带回羊毛与其他产品。直到20世纪20年代，阿富汗人和他们的骆驼一直做着这样的工作。后来政府修建了一条新铁路，因此他们就不再需要骆驼了。1925年，他们通过了一项法律：允许人们在这种动物成为麻烦时猎杀它们。1935年，警方曾在一个镇上一天内杀死153头骆驼。
