【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 idn39。t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip ，她卻堅(jiān)持要自己把這次旅游安排得盡善盡美。Now, I know that the proper way is always her ，我就知道這個(gè)盡善盡美的方式總是她的方式。I kept asking her, When are we leaving and when are we ing back? I asked her whether she had looked at a map ，“我們什么時(shí)候出發(fā)？什么時(shí)候回來(lái)？”我還問(wèn)她是否看過(guò)地圖。Of course, she hadn39。t。 my sister doesn39。t care about ——我的姐姐是不會(huì)考慮細(xì)節(jié)的。So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai ，我告訴她，湄公河的源頭在青海省。She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her ——這種眼神表明她是不會(huì)改變主意的。When I told her that our journey would begin at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, she seemed to be excited about ，我們的旅行將從5, 000多米的高地出發(fā)，這時(shí)她似乎顯得很興奮。When I told her the air would be hard to breathe and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting ，呼吸困難，而且天氣很冷時(shí)，她卻說(shuō)這將是一次有趣的經(jīng)歷。I know my sister well. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give ，她一旦下了決心，什么也不能使她改變。最后，我只好讓步了。Several months before our trip, Wang Wei and I went to the ，王薇和我去了圖書(shū)館。We found a large atlas with good maps that showed details of world ，里面有一些世界地理的明細(xì)圖。From the atlas we could see that the Mekong River begins in a glacier on a Tibetan ，湄公河發(fā)源于西藏一座山上的冰川。At first the river is small and the water is clear and cold. Then it begins to move ，江面很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開(kāi)始快速流動(dòng)。It bees rapids as it passes through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan ，流經(jīng)云南西部。Sometimes the river bees a waterfall and enters wide ，這條江形成瀑布，進(jìn)入寬闊的峽谷。We were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in 。After it leaves China and the high altitude, the Mekong bees wide, brown and ，流出高地之后，湄公河就變寬了，變暖了，河水也變成了黃褐色。As it enters Southeast Asia, its pace slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice ，流速減緩，河水蜿蜒緩慢地穿過(guò)低谷，流向生長(zhǎng)稻谷的平原。At last, the river delta enters the South China ，湄公河三角洲的各支流流入中國(guó)南海。6. 必修一Unit3 夜晚的西藏山景PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS第二部分山中一宿Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in ，但是西藏已經(jīng)開(kāi)始下雪了。Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ，感覺(jué)就像大冰塊。Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles?你看到過(guò)雪人騎自行車(chē)嗎？That39。s what we looked like!我們看上去就像那樣。Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at ，一些身著羊毛大衣的孩子們停下來(lái)看著我們。In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)由于天冷我們的水壺都凍上了。However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked ，湖水在落日的余暉下閃亮如鏡，景色迷人。Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She is very reliable and I knew I didn’t need to encourage ，王薇在我的前面，她很可靠，我知道我用不著給她鼓勁兒。To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for ，但是當(dāng)我們環(huán)顧四周，（眼前的）景色讓我們感到驚奇，我們似乎能看到幾百里以外的地方。At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己置身高處，彷佛騎車(chē)穿越云層。Then we began going down the was great fun especially as it gradually became much warmer. 然后我們開(kāi)始下山，這非常有趣，特別是天氣逐漸變得暖和多了。In the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green ，五彩斑斕的蝴蝶翩翩飛舞在我們身旁，我們還看到牦牛和羊群在吃草。At this point we had to change our caps, coats, gloves and trousers for Tshirts and ，我們不得不把帽子、外衣、手套和長(zhǎng)褲脫掉，換成T恤衫和短褲。In the early evening we always stop to make camp. We put up our tent and then we ，我們通常就停下來(lái)宿營(yíng)，（于是），我們先把帳篷支起來(lái)，然后吃飯。After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed ，王薇把頭放在枕頭上就睡覺(jué)了，而我卻醒著。At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew ，天空變得清朗了，星星更亮了。It was so quiet. There was almost no windonly the flames of our fire for pany.（夜晚）非常安靜——幾乎沒(méi)有風(fēng)，只有篝火的火焰和我們做伴。As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already ，我想著我們已經(jīng)走了多遠(yuǎn)。We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join us. We can hardly wait to see them!我們很快就要到達(dá)云南的大理。在那里，我們的表兄弟刀衛(wèi)和宇航將加入我們的行列。我們迫不及待地想要見(jiàn)到他們！7. 必修一Unit4 A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。T SLEEP地球的一個(gè)不眠之夜Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast ：For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and ，村子里的井水升升降降，起起伏伏。Farmers noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in them. A smelly gas came out of the ，水井的井壁上有深深的裂縫，裂縫里冒出臭氣。In the farmyards, the chickens and even the pigs were too nervous to ,甚至豬都緊張得不想吃食。Mice ran out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and 。魚(yú)缸和池塘里的魚(yú)會(huì)往外跳。At about 3:00 am on July 28,197