Unit_3_Travel_Journal__同步听力与习题答案.doc

Unit 3 Travel Journal【教材听力原文】Listening textJOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGPart3 CHATTING WITH A GIRLOn the way to meet their cousins, the two travelers see a girl (G) walking along the road. Wan Kun (WK) stops to speak to her.WK: hello!G: Hello! Are you travelers? Where are you going? WK: Yes, we are. Were following the Mekong River from its start to where it joins the sea. Weve been all through China and now we are going to follow the river in Laos.G: I come from Laos. Thats our most important river. Do you know that it even appears on our national flag?WK: Really?G: Yes. We use the river for everything including washing, fishing and moving things around the country. We would be lost without it. Its better than a road.WK: Well, I suppose thats why Ive seen boats going up and down theyre transporting goods and people.G: Yes. We call it “the sea of Laos”because it is so useful and we are not close to the sea.WK: How interesting! In Tibet the river was called “the water of the rocks”and in Vietnam it is known as “the river of the nine dragons”. Those names sound so beautiful.G: Well, the Mekong River is very beautiful, especially when it enters Laos from Tibet. It goes through so many lovely places with mountains and thick forests. The scenery can take your breath away.WK: I never realized that! In Tibet it was all waterfalls and rapids.G: There are other beautiful sights along the Mekong River in our country. They include temples, caves and a waterfall. It is a protected area so you know its very special.WK: Can we sleep by the river?G: Yes, of course you can. There are many small villages along the river. You can stay there if you wish. They fish in the river and you can eat some wonderful soup there.WK: Weve already seen many different kinds of animals, plants and birds along the riverbank. We were happy to see them.G: Well, there are many other things to discover about the Mekong River in Laos.WK: Thank you so much for telling us so many things. Goodbye.G: Goodbye.Answer key for Exercise 1:Laos: Tibet; mountains; forests; waterfalls Suggested answers to Exercise 2: Topic Southwest China Laos Local name of the riverThe water of the rocks The sea of LaosUses of the river Washing ,fishing and transportWhat to seeMany different animal, plant and bird speciesSmall villages along the river Scenery Waterfalls and rapids River passes through mountains and forests; temples, caves and a waterfall Reading and writing Answer key:1. Real details include anything about the geography of China and Southeast Asia, and the people who live there. Also, the places the bikers visit are real details.2. Unreal details include anything about the four bikers and their personal experiences.【练习册答案】 Listening textJOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGPart 4 OCTOBER IN LAOSWe met Dao Wei and Yu Hang in Dali. They were glad to join us for the second week of our journey down the great river. Before we set out, we went to a small outdoor caf and told them about what we had seen in Tibet. Along the way, children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us. I told then how it was so cold in the late evening that the water in our bottles froze. The lakes shone like glass in the moonlight. Few trees could be seen. I said we were so high in the mountains that we cycled through clouds. In the valleys, colourful butterflies flew around us. We saw many yaks and sheep eating green grass. That night we were too tired to make camp, so we slept in an inn for truck drivers. They told us many wonderful stories about life in this part of China.The next day we went across the border into Laos. Most of its western border is made by the Mekong River. Laos, we learned, has the smallest number of people of any country in Southeast Asia. Much of the world knows little about it. As we cycled across the plains where rice grew, we could see many low mountains covered in trees. We had planned our trip well. We were told that autumn was the best time to be traveling here and it was true. It was cool and dry so there was no need to worry about floods along the river.Answer key for Exercise 1:Dali; coats; moonlight; mountains; yaks; border; Laos; floodsAnswer key for Exercise 2:1. Wang Kun is telling the story. Its his travel journal.2. She met her cousins in October in Dali, a city in western Yunnan Province.3. The entry doest say.4. Answers will vary.5. Answers will vary. USING WORDS AND EXPRESSIONSAnswer key for Exercise 1:clean; tourists; however; clear; plains; climb; imagine; rapids; shorts; change your mind; brave; nervous; finishedAnswer key for Exercise 2:1. He wrote a travel journal during his visit to China.2. I need something flat to write on.3. All right, I will have to go with you if you insist.4. She is d determined woman. If (Once) she determines (is determined) to do something, she will do it well.5. He recorded the important events and his afterthoughts in his travel journal.6. He was to begin a bike trip the next day. He was so excited that he stayed awake the whole night.7. We were all busy. Some of us were putting up a tent, some were making a fire, and the others were busy cooking.8. Lets go back to our camp. Its getting dark.9. Im not familiar with this city. This is my first visit.10. I dont think it is necessary for us to give in. (I dont think we need to give in.)USING STRUCTURESAnswer key for Exercise 1: 1. are going/are going to go2. am staying/am going to stay3. is flying/is going to fly;4. is taking/is going to take; leaves5. is giving/is going to give; is saying/is going to say6. am coming7. are going; are getting8. didnt buy; are buying/are going to buy9. met; are meeting/are going to meet Listening task.JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONGPart 5 ON THE ROAD IN LAOSOn our third night in Laos, we slept in a village on little pieces of wood. The village had no lights. In a few houses, however, we could see candles. On the small road near he village, we heard only one truck all night. The river was also quiet, like a man singing in a low voice from a boat as it slowly passed us. The next morning we made an early start and traveled quite far before lunch. Along the way, strange buses called tuktuks passed us. For lunch we ate a special noodle soup. After lunch we were tired, so we put our bikes next to many other bikes on a bus and we were driven to Vientiane. A cage of chickens sang for us all the way! The capital city of Laos was very busy. Trucks, buses, jeeps and motorbikes filled the streets. We got on our bikes again and went to see a famous Buddhist temple. Early that evening we cycled south of the city and followed the river to a big waterfall. As it got dark, a bright orange moon appeared in the sky. The next morning we stopped to talk to an old man fishing on the Mekong. We greeted him with our hands put together, in the way of his people. He smiled and moved his head down a bit. He told us that during the rainy season the river became much larger. But, he said, the river is always rich in fish life. Indeed, he said, it has more different kinds of fish than any other river in Asia. He also told us about the changes on the river he had seen over the years. For him, the river was part of the only way of life he had ever known. Later that afternoon we cycled faster and farther, hoping to reach the border with Cambodia in two days.Answer key for Exercise 1: 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 C 5 C Suggested answers to Exercise 2: Topic Laos The river More kinds of fish than any other river in Asia, a big waterfallMethods of land transportTravel by buses (tuk-tuks), trucks, jeep and motorbikesLife in the villagesNo electricity, sleep on pieces of wood, close to the riverFood Special noodle soup, probably chicken and fish as wellREADING TASK Topic Laos Cambodia Vietnam PopulationHalf the population of CambodiaTwice the population of LaosAlmost seven times the population of CambodiaWeatherCool and dry in autumnCooler in the north and much warmer in the southLearningHalf of its people cant read or writeFarmingRice and fishRice and fishRice, fish and fruit 【课外阅读】 I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked insufficient funds. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, weve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of Gods children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negros legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, When will you be satisfied? We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest - quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.? This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With