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课内探究

质疑探究：

I. Read the passage and answer the following questions:

1）Did Alice travel on the train a long time ago?

2）Was her destination on the coast of Australia?

3）Was the scenery the same during the whole journey?

4）Did she study while she was on the train?

5）Did the Australians use horses to travel to the central part of the country?

6）Do they still use camels to deliver goods?

II. Read the passage and get the general idea of each paragraph.

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当堂检测：

Fill in the blanks with proper words

　　Alice, a__________ girl, ___________ Sydney, Australia. Recently, ___________ a friend she had her first ____ on a ____________ train. They spent two days and nights on the Ghan train. The meals ______ by experts were great and the _______ was very ________.They first saw fields ____ dark red soil, and then the _____. There were even some ________farms ____ more than a hundred years ago. During the day, she ___ of the window. ____________, she reading books or _______ to some cassettes. _______, she watched the stars ______ like diamonds. The reason _____the train is called the Ghan is that ______ camels from Afghanistan ____ once _______ carry food and other supplies. ___________, a new railway line was built and the camels _______needed _________.

课后反思：

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课后训练

　　I have a rule for travel：Never carry a map. I prefer to ask for directions. Foreign visitors are often puzzled (迷惑的)in Japan because most streets there don't have names. In Japan, people use landmarks in their directions instead of street names. For example，the Japanese will say to travelers，"Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop."

In the countryside of the American Midwest, usually there are not many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat (平坦的). In many places