【正文】 .. . . ..Comprehending1 Read the passage carfully and answer the following questions.1 What was Wang Kun and Wang Wei’s idea of a good trip?Their idea was to take a long bike trip.2 Who planned the trip to the Mekong?Wang Wei planned the trip.3 Where is the source of the Mekong and which sea does it enter?The source of the river is in Qinhai Province and it enters the South China Sea.4 What can you see when you travel along the Mekong?You can see the source glacier, rapids, hills, valleys, waterfalls and plains.5 What difficulties did Wang Kun and Wang Wei find about their journey?The journey will begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, where it is hard to breathe and very cold.6 What do you think about Wang Kun and Wang Wei?Wang Kun’s character: enthusiastic, critical, sensibleWang Wei’s character: imaginative, organized, eager, persistent, stubborn, risktaking2 Look at the following sentences from the text and explain them in your own words.1 She gave me a determined look – the kind that said that she would not change her mind.She gave me a determined look … This sentence means that she has decided to do something and will not change her ideas.2 … my sister does not care about details.… details are not important to my sister. This means that she concentrates on the broad outline of the trip but not the particulars: where they will stay, what they will take with them, etc.3 It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice grows.A meander is a geographical term to describe the snakelike bends that a river makes as it slows down to flow through valleys to the plains. The sentence means that the Mekong River flows slowly and gently through the valleys and reaches the farming plains.3 An attitude is what a person thinks about something. Write down Wang Wei’s and Wang Kun’s attitude to the trip. Then add your own opinion.Wang Wei’s attitudePositive to the trip. She wants to organise it as it was her idea.Wang Kun’s attitudeLess positive to the trip as he wants to organise it and thinks he can do that better than his sister.My attitudeIt sounds like a wonderful trip and I would love to be able to do a trip like that myself one day.4 Work in pairs. Imagine that you are Wang Kun and Wang Wei. Choose a paragraph from the passage and use the information to help you make up a dialogue.WANG WEI: You know, we’ve always wanted to do a long bike trip. Why don’t we go on one after we graduate form college?WANG KUN: That’s a good idea. ...Sample dialogue:WANG WEI: You know, we’ve always wanted to do a long bike trip. Why don’t we go on one after we graduate form college?WANG KUN: That’s a good idea. But where are we going?WANG WEI: What about cycling along the Mekong River?WANG KUN: It sounds interesting, but how do you want to plan it?WANG WEI: I think we should do it properly. We must find the source of the river and start from there.WANG KUN: Well, the Mekong River begins in Qinghai Province. That means we’re