(surround) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.6.Having_settled (settle) down in their train seats, they looked out of the window at some mountain goats and a grizzly bear and an eagle.They 7.went (go) by the city of Calgary.It is famous for the Calgary Stampede.Many of the cowboys 8.taking (take) part in the competition there have a gift 9.for riding horses.Then they arrived in Thunder Bay, a city at the top of the Great Lakes, and learned even more about Canada and its natural 10.resources (resource)．

　　Ⅴ.串点成篇微表达

　　游览加拿大是我们的梦想，然而直到去年我们的梦想才得以(manage to)成真。我们决定坐飞机去，而不是 (rather than)开车。傍晚，我们登上飞机(go aboard)，黎明时，我们已经在加拿大的上空，在那里我们看到(catch sight of)了许多湖泊和山脉。它们的美景怎么赞美也不过分。

　　Visiting_Canada_had_been_our_dream.However,_it_was_not_until_last_year_that_we_managed_to_make_it.We_decided_to_take_a_plane_rather_than_drive.We_went_aboard_in_the_evening,_and_at_dawn,_we_were_over_Canada,_where_we_caught_sight_of_many_lakes_and_mountains.The_beauty_was_beyond_all_praise.

　　二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　"It's too late for me, Susan.I'm too __1__ for school，" said Sharron."How old are you？" Susan asked."I'm thirty." Susan pointed at the bruises on Sharron's wrists, "I'm familiar with '__2__' like these.Honey, it's never too late to __3__ your dream.Let me tell you how I know."

　　Susan began __4__ a part of her life few knew about."At my __5__ settlement, the judge gave our sons to my husband __6__ I was only nineteen and he felt I couldn't provide for them.The __7__ of him taking my babies left me weeping.To make things __8__， my husband took the boys and moved, cutting all contact I had with them.Just like the judge predicted, I __9__ to make ends meet.I found work as a waitress, working for __10__ only.Many days my meals __11__ milk and biscuits.The most difficult thing was the __12__ in my soul.I lived in a tiny one­room apartment and the loneliness would defeat me.I wished I could play with my babies and hear them laugh."

Even __13__ four decades, the memory was still painful.Sharron's eyes filled with tears as she reached out to __14__ Susan.Susan continued, "I remarried and had a daughter.She became my reason for living until she went to college.Then I was __15__ where I started, not knowing what to do with __16__ - until the day my mother had an operation.I watched the nurses care for her and thought: I can do that.I __17__ to take steps toward my goal.I began __18__ until late at night." Susan paused and looked __19__ in Sharron's eyes, "I received my diploma when I was forty­six years old."