【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 nd the water is clear and it begins to move bees rapids as it passes through deep valleys, travelling across western Yunnan the river bees a waterfall and enters wide were both surprised to learn that half of the river is in it leaves China and the high altitude,the Mekong bees wide，brown and it enters Southeast Asia, its pace makes wide bends or meanders through low valleys to the plains where rice last, the river delta enters the South China Sea.[來(lái)源:]沿湄公河而下的旅行第一部分 夢(mèng)想與計(jì)劃我的名字叫王坤。從高中起，我姐姐和我就一直夢(mèng)想作一次偉大的自行車(chē)旅行。兩年前，她買(mǎi)了一輛價(jià)錢(qián)昂貴的山地自行車(chē)，然后她還說(shuō)服我也買(mǎi)了一輛。去年她去看望了我們的表兄弟—在昆明讀大學(xué)的刀偉和宇航。他們是傣族人，在云南省西部靠近瀾滄江的地方長(zhǎng)大，湄公河在中國(guó)境內(nèi)的這一段叫瀾滄江，流經(jīng)其他國(guó)家后就叫湄公河。很快，王薇使表兄弟也對(duì)騎車(chē)旅行產(chǎn)生了興趣。到大學(xué)畢業(yè)后，我們終于有了作一次騎車(chē)旅行的機(jī)會(huì)。我問(wèn)姐姐：“我們要去哪里？”首先想到要沿湄公河從源頭到終點(diǎn)騎車(chē)旅行的是我的姐姐?，F(xiàn)在，她正為這次旅行制訂計(jì)劃。我很喜歡我姐姐，但是她有一個(gè)嚴(yán)重的缺點(diǎn)，她有時(shí)確實(shí)很固執(zhí)。盡管她對(duì)到某些地方的最佳路線(xiàn)并不清楚，她卻堅(jiān)持要把這次旅行安排的盡善盡美?，F(xiàn)在我知道了這個(gè)盡善盡美的方式總是她的方式。我老是問(wèn)她：“我們什么時(shí)候動(dòng)身？什么時(shí)候回來(lái)？”我問(wèn)她是否已經(jīng)看過(guò)地圖。當(dāng)然她并沒(méi)有看過(guò)，我的姐姐是不會(huì)考慮細(xì)節(jié)的。于是我告訴她湄公河的源頭在青海省。她給了我一個(gè)堅(jiān)定的眼神—這種眼神表明她是不會(huì)改變主意的。當(dāng)我告訴她我們的旅行將從5000多米的的高地出發(fā)時(shí)，她似乎顯得很興奮。當(dāng)我告訴她那里空氣稀薄，呼吸會(huì)很困難，而且天氣會(huì)很冷時(shí)，她卻說(shuō)這將是一次很有趣的經(jīng)歷。我非常了解我的姐姐，她一旦下了決心，就什么也不能使她改變。最后，我只好讓步了。在我們旅行前的幾個(gè)月，王薇和我去了圖書(shū)館。我們找到了一本大型的地圖冊(cè)，里面有一些世界地理的明細(xì)圖。我們從圖上可以看到，湄公河源于西藏一座山上的冰川。起初，河很小，河水清澈而冷冽，然后它開(kāi)始快速流動(dòng)。它穿過(guò)深谷時(shí)就變成了急流。流經(jīng)云南西部。有時(shí)，這條河形成瀑布進(jìn)入寬闊的峽谷。我們驚奇的發(fā)現(xiàn)這條河有一半是在中國(guó)境內(nèi)。當(dāng)流出中國(guó)，流出高地后，湄公河就變寬，變暖了。河水也變成了黃褐色。而當(dāng)它進(jìn)入東南亞以后，流速減慢，河水變寬慢慢地穿過(guò)低谷，到了長(zhǎng)著稻谷的平原。最后，湄公河三角洲的各支流流入中國(guó)南海。Reading and discussingJOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG [來(lái)源:學(xué),科,網(wǎng)] PART 2 A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINSAlthough it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? That39。s what we looked like!Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles ,the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked Wei rode in front of me as is very reliable and I knew I did39。t need to encourage climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us,we were surprised by the seemed to be able to see for one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through we began going down the was great fun especially as it gradually became much the valleys colourful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green this point we had to change our caps,coats,gloves and trousers for Tshirts and the early evening we always stop to make put up our tent and then we supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew was so was almost no windonly the flames of our fire for I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon,where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join can hardly wait to see them!Unit 4 EarthquakesReadingA NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN39。T SLEEPStrange things were happening in the countryside of northeast three days the water in the village wells rose and fell,rose and noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in smelly gas came out of the the farmyards,the chickens and even the pigs were too nervois to ran out of the fields looking for places to jumped out of their bowls and about 3:00 am on july 28,1976,some people saw bright lights in the sound of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the the city,the water pipes in some buildings cracked and the one million people of the city,who thiught little of these events,were asleep as usual that 3:42 am everything began to seemed as if the world was at an end!Eleven kilometres directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had was felt in Beijing,which is more than two hundred kilometres of the nation felt huge crack that was eight kilometres long and thirty metres wide cut across houses,roads and burst from holes in the hills of rock became rivers of fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in suffering of the people was of them died or were left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400, how could the survivors believe it was natural?Everywhere they looked nearly everything was of the city39。s hospitals,75%of its factories and buildings and 90% of its homes were covered the ground like red autumn wind,however,could blow them dams fell and most of the bridges also fell or were not safe for railway tracks were now useless pieces of of thousands of cows would never give milk a million oigs and millions of chickens were now filled the wells instead of were ,later that afternoon,another big quake which was almost as strong as the first one shook of the rescue workers and doctors were trapped under the buildings fell ,food,and electricity were hard to begab to wonder how long the disaster would hope was not after the quakes,the army sent 150,000 soldiers to Tangshan to help the rescue of thousands of people were army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and to bury the the north of the city,most of the 10,000 miners were rescued from the coal mines built shelters for survivors whose homes had been water was taken to the city bu train,truck and ,the city began to breathe of the City Government Tangshan,HebeiChinaJuly5,2007Dear____，Congratulations!We are pleased to tell you that you have won the high school speaking petition about new speech was heard by a group of five judges, all of whom agreed that it was the best one this parents and your school should be very proud of you!Next month the city will open a new park to honour those who died in the terrible park will also honour those who helped the office would like to have you speak to the park vistors on July 28 at 11:00 you know,this is the day the quake happened thirty____years invite you to bring your family and friends on that special ，Zhang ShaUnit 5ELIAS’ STORYMy name is am a poor black worker in South time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my was twelve years was in 1952 and Ma