【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 i ster but she has one seri ous short i ng. She can be real y stubborn. Al though she di dn39。t know the best way of getti ng to pl aces, she i nsi sted that she ani ze the tri p properl y. N ow, I know that the proper way is al ways her way. I kept aski ng her, When are we l eavi ng and when are we i ng back? I asked her whether she had looked at a m ap yet. O f course, she hadn39。t。 m y si ster doesn39。t care about detail s. So I tol d her that the source of the Mekong i s in Qi nghai Provi nce. She gave m e a determi ned l ook—the ki nd that sai d she woul d not change her mi nd. When I tol d her that our journey woul d begin at an alti tude of m ore than 5, 000 m etres, she seem ed to be exci ted about it. When I tol d her the ai r woul d be hard to breathe and it woul d be very col d, she sai d i t woul d be an i nteresti ng experi ence. I know m y si ster wel l. O nce she has made up her mi nd, nothi ng can change i t. Fi nal y, I had to gi ve i n. Several m onths before our trip, Wang Wei and I went to the li brary. We found a l arge atl as wi th good m aps that showed detail s of worl d geography. From the atl as we coul d see that the Mekong Ri ver begi ns i n a gl aci er on a Ti betan m ountai n. At fi rst the ri ver i s sm al and the water i s cl ear and col d. Then i t begi ns to m ove qui ckly. It be es rapi ds as i t passes through deep val l eys, travel i ng across western Yunnan Provi nce. Som etim es the ri ver be es a waterfal and enters wi de val eys. We were both surpri sed to l earn that half of the ri ver i s i n Chi na. After it l eaves China and the hi gh al ti tude, the Mekong be es wi de， brown and warm. As it enters Southeast Asi a, its pace sl ows. It m akes wi de bends or meanders through l ow val eys to the pl ai ns where ri ce grows. At last, the ri ver delta enters the South Chi na Sea. PART2 A NIGH T IN THE MOUNTAINS Although i t was autum n,the snow was al ready begi ni ng to fal l i n Ti ur l egs were so heavy and col d that they fel t l ike bl ocks of ave you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles?That’s what we looked like! Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to l ook at us. In the l ate afternoon we found i t was so col d that our water bottl es owever, the l akes shoneli ke glass in the setting sun and looked rode in front of me as usual. She is very reliable and I knew I didn’t need to encourage her. To cli m b the mountai ns was hard work but as we l ooked around us, we were surpri sed by the vi ew. We seem ed to be abl e to see for m il es. At one poi nt we were so hi gh that we found oursel ves cycli ng through cl ouds. Then we began goi ng down the hi l s. It was great fun especi al y as i t gradual y becam e m uch warm er. In the val eys colourful butterfl i es fl ew around us and we saw m any yaks and sheep eati ng green grass. At thi s poi nt we had to change our caps, coats, gl oves and trousers for Tshi rts and shorts. In the earl y eveni ng we al ways stop to m ake cam p. We put up our tent and then we eat. After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pil low and went to sl eep but I stayed awake. At mi dnight the sky becam e clearer and the stars grew bri ghter. It was so qui et. There was al most no wi nd—onl y the fl am es of our fire for pany. As I l ay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had al ready travel l ed. We wil l reach Dali i n Yunnan Provi nce soon, where our cousi ns Dao Wei and Yu H ang wil l joi n us. We can hardl y wai t to see them! PART 6 TH E END OF OUR JOUNEY Cam bodi a was i n m any ways simi l ar to Laos, al though i t has twice the population. At another inn, we talked with a teacher who told us that half of the people in her country couldn’t read or write. H er vilage couldn’t even afford to build a school, so she had to teach outside under a large tent. When we said goodbye, we al l felt very l ucky to have studi ed i n col ege. Back on the road, we passed between m any hi l s and forests. Then we cam e to the plains and entered Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. In m any ways i t looked l ike Vientiane and Ho Chi Minh Ci ty。 it al so had wi de streets wi th trees in rows and old French i ke Vientiane, ships coul d travel the Mekong River the center of the city we vi sited the pal ace and a beautiful whi te elephant. It can onl y be seen outside the palace on special days. We ate an early supper and went to see a great temple with fl oors made of sl iver. The next morning our group sl ept late. We were very tired from the long bike ri de the day before. 證書(shū)編號(hào)： A244001624 卷 冊(cè) 檢 索 號(hào) GZP2020XS014 2020 年習(xí)水 縣 35kV 里獅 變 10kV 里桃 線 線 路及低壓配網(wǎng)工程 初步設(shè)計(jì)（代可研） 說(shuō)明書(shū) l i ve in the m ountai ns of the eastern USA speak with an ol der ki nd of Engli sh di al ect. When Am eri cans m oved from one pl ace to another, they took thei r di al ects wi th them. So peopl e from the mountai ns i n the southeastern USA speak with alm ost the sam e di al ects as peopl e i n the northwestern USA. The USA is a large country i n whi ch m any di fferent di alects are spoken. Al though m any Am eri cans m ove a l ot, they stil l recogni ze and understand each other’s dialects. TH E O XFO RD EN GLISH DICTION ARY You may thi nk that Engl i sh di ctionari es have ben used for m any, m any centuri es. The spel i ng of Engl i sh has al ways ben a probl em but i t was m ore of a probl em i n the days before a di cti onary. Then peopl e coul d spel word i n di fferent ways whi ch you mi ght fi nd it i nteresti ng. But i t made readi ng Engl i sh m uch m ore di ffi cult. So di cti onari es were invented to encourage everybody to spel the same. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn’t m ade unti l the tim e of the l ate Qi ng Dynasty. There m en di d m ost of the im portant earl y work on di cti onari es: Sam uel Johnson, N oah Webster, and James Murray. These m en spe