高中英语人教版2004年03

[00:11.39]Reading

[00:15.05]JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

[00:20.01]PART 1 THE DREAM AND THE PLAN

[00:26.17]My name is Wang Kun.

[00:29.94]Since middle school,

[00:33.70]my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip.

[00:40.18]When we graduated from college,we finally got the chance to do it.

[00:46.84]It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River

[00:53.29]from where it begins to where it ends.

[00:57.86]She loves to go for long bike rides in the countryside.

[01:03.32]Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike.

[01:08.68]Then she persuaded me to byu one.

[01:12.93]Last year,she visited our cousins,Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming

[01:21.68]They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River,

[01:28.95]the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River

[01:35.01]before flowing in other countries.

[01:39.68]Wang Wei soon got them interested in cycling too.

[01:45.85]Wang Wei can be really stubborn 1.

[01:50.60]Although she didn't know the best way of getting to places,

[01:56.24]she insisted that we find the source 2 of the river and begin our journey there.

[02:03.01]She told me that she wanted to do the trip properly.

[02:08.37]Now,I know that the proper way is always her way.

[02:14.74]I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet.

[02:19.89]Of course,she hadn't; my sister doesn't care about details.

[02:26.55]So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai province.

[02:33.21]She gave me a determined 3 look - the kind that said she wouldn't change her mind.

[02:40.65]When I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude 4 of more than 5,000 metres,

[02:48.91]she seemed to be excited about it.

[02:53.48]When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold,

[03:00.92]she said it would be an interesting experience.

[03:05.60]I know my sister well.

[03:09.86]Once she has made up her mind,nothing can change it.Finally,I had to give in.

[03:18.40]Several months before our trip,Wang Wei and I went to the library.

[03:25.35]We found a large atlas 5 with good maps that showed details of the world's geography

[03:32.61]I kept asking her,"When are we leaving and when are we coming back?"

[03:39.38]From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River

[03:44.03]begins at a glacier 6 on a Tibtan mountain.

[03:49.07]At first,the river is small,and the water is clear and cold.

[03:56.62]Then it begings to move quickly.

[04:01.06]It becomes rapids as it passes through deep valleys,

[04:07.01]travelling across western Yunnan Province.

[04:12.06]Sometimes the river enters wide valleys and becomes a waterfall.

[04:18.51]We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in China.

[04:25.48]After it leaves China and the high altitudes 7,

[04:30.73]the Mekong becomes wide,brown and warm.

[04:35.49]As it enters Southeast Asia,it travels slowly through hills and low valleys,

[04:42.75]and the plains where rice grows.

[04:46.90]At last,the river's delta 8 enters the South China Sea.

[04:53.75]Using Language

[05:02.81]Reading and speaking

[05:07.49]JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

[05:11.64]PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS

[05:17.70]Although it was autumn,the snow had already begun to fall in Tibet 9.

[05:25.15]Our legs felt so heavy and cold,we thought they were ice.

[05:31.52]Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles?

[05:37.27]Wang Wei was in front of me,as usual.

[05:42.33]I knew I didn't need to encourage her.

[05:47.19]To climb the mountain road was hard work but to go down the hills was great fun.

[05:54.64]When we reached a valley,it became much warmer.

[06:00.52]We had to change from our caps,coats,gloves and trousers into T-shirts and shorts.

[06:08.98]Then,as we reached the colder altitudes,we had to change again.

[06:15.51]In the early evening,we stopped to make camp.

[06:21.75]First we put up our tents and then we ate.

[06:27.81]After supper,Wang Wei went to sleep but I stayed awake.

[06:34.97]At midnight,the sky became clear and the stars were bright

[06:41.74]It was so quiet in the mountains that night-there was almost no wind,

[06:49.10]only the sound of the fire.

[06:53.26]We have already travelled so far.

[06:58.01]We are reaching Dali in Yunnan Province

[07:02.87]where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join us.

[07:08.20]We can hardly wait to see them!

[07:12.93]2.Listen to the tape and mark the rising

[07:22.31]and falling tone 10 of each sense group and sentence.

[07:27.95]Then practise reading aloud.

[07:32.81]Listening

[07:40.67]1.Listen to Part 3 CHATTNG WITH A GIRL and tick 11 the words you hear on the tape.

[10:28.82]2.Listen again to the tape and fill in the chart.

[10:35.59]Reading and writing

[10:43.92]Many people put their thoughts into a diary

[10:49.20]but others write about their travels in what is called a travel journal 12.

[10:56.17]What is the difference between the two?

[11:00.90]For one thing,a journal isn't as personal as a diary.

[11:07.25]For another, a travel journal has a different purpose.

[11:13.72]In a journal,writers also record their experiences,

[11:19.89]ideas and afterthoughts about what they have seen.

[11:25.64]While diary writers try to record how they feel very soon after things happen,

[11:33.39]journal writers try to better understand what hsa happened to them much later.

[11:40.24]Unlike a diary,a travel journal is written for lots of readers.

[11:47.29]Its topics can be different from a diary,often including people,things,

[11:54.45]and evnents less familiar to the readers.

[11:58.89]Workbook

[12:11.27]LISTENING

[12:14.43]1.Listen to Part 4 of JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

[12:21.98]and tick the words you hear on the tape.

[14:10.02]2.Listen again and then answer the questions.

[14:16.97] LISTENING TASk

[14:24.84]1.Listen to Part 5.

[14:30.79]Wang Kun is describing a few of the things they saw during their tour.

[14:38.73]Pick out the correct information and then tell about their experience in Laos.

[16:58.78]2.Listen to the tape again and fill in the information on the chart.

[17:07.71]REANING TASK

[17:15.78]JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG

[17:20.82]PART 6 THE END OF OUR JOURNEY

[17:26.46]Cambodia was in many ways similar to Laos,although it has twice the population.

[17:33.94]At another inn 13,

[17:37.88]we talked with a teacher who old us that half of the people in her country

[17:43.52]country couldn't read or write.

[17:47.47]Her village couldn't even afford to build a school,

[17:52.61]so she had to teach outside under a large tent.

[17:57.58]When we said goodbye,we all felt very lucky to have studied in college.

[18:04.84]Back on the road,we passed between many hills and forests.

[18:10.77]Then we came to the plains and entered Phnom Penh,the capital of Cambodia.

[18:17.82]In many ways it looked like Vientiane and Ho Chi Minh City;

[18:24.30]it also had wide streets with trees in rows and old French houses.

[18:31.14]Unlike Vientiane,ships could travel the Mekong River here.

[18:37.81]In the centre of the city we visited the palace and saw a beautiful white elephant.

[18:45.67]It can only be seen outside the palace on special days.

[18:51.55]We ate an early supper and went to see a great temple with floors made of silver.

[18:59.10]The next morning our group slept late.

[19:03.95]We were very tired from the long bike ride the day before.

[19:09.52]Cycling in the hills had been difficult.

[19:14.95]Now our cousins had the chance to make jokes about Wang Wei and me.

[19:20.59]Perhaps,they said,they were the strong ones!

[19:26.05]We had lunch at a nice outdoor cafe,then rode out of the city.

[19:33.50]Two days later we crossed the border into Vietnam 14.

[19:38.36]We began to see many more people,but I wasn't surprised.

[19:44.31]I read in an atlas before our trip

[19:48.99]that Vietnam has almost seven times the population of Cambodia.

[19:55.52]We met a farmer who gave us directions

[20:00.56]and told us that he grows a new rice crop four times every year

[20:07.12]so he can feed more people.

[20:11.48]He also told us that the northern part of his country has many mountains

[20:18.64]and is much cooler than here in the south,where it is flat

[20:24.57]Although the flat land of the delta made it easier for us to cycle,

[20:30.92]we got warm very quickly.

[20:35.36]So we drank lots of water and ate lots of bananas.

[20:41.13]Soon the delta was separated 15 by nine smaller rivers.

[20:47.48]Two days later,after we had passed thousands of rice fields,we came to the sea.

[20:54.95]We were tired but also very excited:

[20:59.99]our dream to cycle along the Mekong River had finally come true