1.Read the passage quickly and silently, judge T or F and correct the error:

1. Alice got on in Alice Springs, and got off in Sydney.( ) 2. The scenery of the whole journey is very colorful. ( ) 3. On the train, Alice still studied. ( )

4. They used camels instead of horses because horses are not good at traveling a long Read the first paragraph:

Alice, an __________ girl, ___________ Sydney, Australia. Recently, ___________ a friend she had her first ____ on a ____________ train. They spent two days and nights on the _______ Ghan train.

Read the second paragraph:

distance. ( )

5.The government built a new railway line in 1925.( )

2.Choose the best answer according to the text.

(1)From the passage，we know that Alice Thompson is from________. A．China B．Afghan C．Australia D．Austria

(2)The sentence“And what a ride！”in the first paragraph means that________. A. the writer enjoyed the long journey

B．the writer was made too tired from the long ride C．that was a long and dangerous journey D．he had nothing to see but desert (3)Before the 1920s，________.

A. Australians couldn’t travel to the middle of the country B．Australians didn’t dare to travel in the endless desert

C．Australians could only travel to the middle of the country by riding horses D．camels played an important part in traveling through the desert (4)How long did she spend on the train? A. One day. B. Two days.

C. One day and night. D. Two days and nights.

The meals ______ by experts were great and the _______ was very ________. They first saw fields ____ dark red soil, and then the _____.

There were even some _________ farms ____ more than a hundred years ago.

Read the third paragraph:

During the day, she ___ by the window, ____________ it, reading books or _______ to some cassettes. _______, she watched the stars _______ like diamonds. Read the last three paragraphs:

The reason _____ the train is called the Ghan is that ______ camels from Afghanistan ____ once _______ carry food and other supplies. ___________, a new railway line was built and the camels _______needed _________.

summary

Recently I had my first ride on a __________ train with my friends, We ____ two days on the train. The train was__________. We got on in Sydney，and________ in Alice Springs, right in the _______of Australia，more than four thousand kilometers ____. We ate great meals _____ by experts. The scenery was first_______, and then we saw ________ farms. Why was the train called Ghan? A long time ago, Australians tried______ horses, but the horses

didn’t like the hot weather and sand. They brought _______ from Afghanistan. Camels

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