Unit 2 English around the world课时作业

Learning about language

第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

24 hours in western Sydney: what to do, where to go

On a recent weekend, my boyfriend and I decided to explore the area for the first time.

Friday

6 p.m. - Check in at Atura Blacktown hotel

After an easy 40-minute train trip from Central Station to Blacktown (about $5 one way with the Opal smartcard), we catch a taxi (about $20) to western Sydney's newest hotel, the Atura Blacktown. It's a sleek but welcoming hotel with an open-plan lobby that incorporates an inhouse restaurant and a comfortable lounge area. Upstairs, we quickly warm to our modern guestroom, which features reliable, free WiFi, free movies on a large wall-mounted TV, and in the bathroom Malin+Goetz toiletries(洗漱用品). It's good value at about $160 for a king room.

8 p.m. - Dinner and a drive-in movie

The hotel's Roadhouse Bar and Grill has an upscale menu (mains $25 - $40 per person) but a casual atmosphere, with an open kitchen and families seated at several tables. We've been told not to fill up on dinner so we reluctantly leave our tender scotch fillet(鱼片) and expertly pan-fried barramundi unfinished. At the reception, we pick up keys to the hotel's white Cadillac, which is parked out front, and drive around the corner to the Skyline Drive-In ($20 for one car with two passengers).

Saturday

9 a.m. - Feasting in Bonnyrigg

Everywhere we go, there is food. At the temple, we watch a famous Laotion chef prepare pawpaw salad, while at the mosque(清真寺) we are offered feather-light fairy floss. Later, in a low-ceilinged Asian grocer, we are fed sublime rice-paper rolls by a proprietor who speaks five languages. Those who dismiss ordinary Australians as conservative and intolerant have clearly not visited Bonnyrigg.

6 p.m. - People-watching at The Emporium