Transcript Fill in the blanks (P34 Reading):

Fill in the blanks (P34 Reading):
Li Daiyu and Liu Qian took the train in
Canada from _____
west to ____.
east Their
cousins’ friend, Danny Lin, took them to the
train station to catch” The
___True
___ North
____”.
Cnada is the second
______ biggest country in
the world. It is 5,500 kilometres from
_____to
_____.
coast
coast As they go _______,
eastward
they saw beautiful scenery as well as cities.
Vancouver is _________
surrounded by mountains on
the north and east. When the cousins
settled
_____ down
____ in their seats, they looked
out of the window. They saw mountain goats
and even a grizzly
_____ bear. Calgary is famous
for its competition. Many of the cowboys
gift___
for
from all over North America have
___ _a __
working with animals. Then they went
____through
____
a wheat-growing province. Thunder Bay is a
busy port. It is close
____ to
__ the center of the
country.
Fill in the blanks (P38 Reading):
They knew fall had arrived in Canada, for
they saw the red maple
____ ____
____ on
trees and frost
the ground. In Toronto, they went up the
tall CN
__ ____.
tower On top of it they saw the
great
misty cloud that rose from the ____
_____
Niagara____.
Falls As they walked north from
the harbour, li Daiyu phoned one of her
booth
mother’s friends from a telephone
_______ ______.
It was a pity that they couldn’t go __
___
as for
as
__ Ottawa. The train arrived in
Montreal__
____ the next morning. They
at dawn
found Montreal is a French-speaking
_____________
country because there were signs and ads
in French.
Language points:
Canada is a multicultural country like
China.加拿大像中国一样是一个多元文化国家.
multi- : many
multiparty多党的
multinational多国的,多民族的
multipurpose多目标的，多种用途的
multidirectional多向的
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a
trip to Canada to visit--trip(n.) : usually short journey,esp. for
pleasure
Eg: 1) be/go on a trip 2)make/take a trip
海滨之行
a trip to the seaside
前往巴黎的蜜月之旅
a honeymoon trip to Paris
他出差在外。
He is on a business trip.
我父亲下礼拜要到纽约去。
My father will make atrip to New York
next week.
Rather than taking the aeroplane all the
way, they decided to fly from China to
Vancouver and to take the train --Rather than(prep.): in preference to
(sb/sth); instead of
小西宁可沿街乞讨,也不愿用诚实的方式捞钱.
Rather than get(getting) money in
such a dishonest way, Xiao Xi would
beg in the street.
我想喝柠檬，不想喝可乐。
I’ll have a lemonade rather than a coke.
他正忙于写信而不是读报。
He was busy writing a letter rather
than reading a newspaper.
It is the second biggest country in the world
and as you go eastward, you will see
mountains, and pass by thousands of lakes,
forests and wide rivers as well as cities.
eastward = eastwards “向东”
他们向东航行。
They sailed eastward.
我们难以决定是向东走还是向西走。
We couldn’t decide whether to go eastward
or weatward.
thousands of成千上万的。
注意：million, billion, thousand,hundred,
score(20), dozen(12)之前有具体的数字时，
不论其后有无of,词尾都不加s.
three hundred students 300名学生
three hundred of them 他们当中的300人
60人
three score people
这些鸡蛋的3打
three dozen of these eggs
如果其前没有具体的数字而后接of时，词尾都
加s.
成千上万只山羊
thousands of mountain goats
几十年
decades of years
几十次
decades of times
几百人
hundreds of men
On the coast north of Vancouver some of
the oldest and most beautiful forests in the
world still remain.
North of= to the north of
方位词：east, west, south, southeast,
northeast, etc.有类似的用法。
It’s about four hundre kilometers
northeast of Toronto---
That afternoon in the train the cousins
settled down in their seats.
Settle down 安稳坐下，定居下来，适应起来
他爷爷手拿报纸坐在扶手椅里。
His grandfather settled down in the
armchair with a newspaper.
你适应新工作了吗？
Have you settled down in your new job
yet?
Many of them have a gift for working
with animals and they can win thousands
of dollars in prizes.
Have a gift for 在……方面有天分，有天赋
她对学语言有天赋。
She has a gift for learning languages.
好像他对音乐有些天赋。
It seems he has a gift for music.
They were not leaving for Montreal until later.
Not--- until--- 直到……才……
（常与瞬间动词连用）
“We don’t leave until this evening,”
said Liu Qian.
街上的噪音一直到午夜才停止。
The noise of the stree didn’t stop until
midnight.
孩子们不到天黑不回家。
The children won’t come back until it is dark.
In the distance, they could see the misty
cloud that arose from the great Niagara
Fall, which is on the south side of the lake.
In the distance在远处，远方的
夜色渐近，远山变成了深蓝色。
Evening came slowly. The hills in
the distance turned dark blue.
我可以隐约看出三个人影在远处移动。
I could make out three figures moving
in the distance.
It’s too bad you can’t go as far as Ottawa,
Canada’s capital.
Go as far as : to the place mentioned,
but no further 一直走到……
我陪他一直走到公共汽车站。
I accompanied him as far as the bus stop.
我们就到这里了。
This is as far as we go.
我走到了山脚那么远。
I walked as far as the foot of the mountain.