1、高中英语立体高效辅导Module 3 My First Ride on a TrainMy name is Alice Thompson. I come from Sydney Australia and Im 18 years old. Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train. And what a ride. The train was wonderful and the food was great. We ate great meals cooked by experts. For the first few hund
2、red kilometers of the journey, the scenery was very colourful. There were fields and the soil was dark red. After that, it was desert. The sun shone, there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky. Suddenly, it looked like a place from another time. We saw abandoned farms which were built mor
3、e than a hundred years ago. The train was comfortable and the people were nice. During the day, I sat and looked out of the window, and sometimes talked to other passengers.I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes. One night, at about midnight, I watched the night sky for about an hour. The
4、 stars shone like diamonds. Why is the train called the Ghan? A long time ago, Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. They tried riding horses, but the horses didnt like the hot weather and sand. A hundred and fifty years ago, they brought some camels from Afghanistan. Ghan
5、 is short for Afghanistan. Camels were much better than horses for travelling a long distance. For many years, trained camels carried food and other supplies, and returned with wool and other products. The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. Then the government built a new railway lin
6、e, so they didnt need the camels any more. In 1925, they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem.In 1935, the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day. 高中英语立体高效辅导我的首次火车之旅我是爱丽丝汤普森。我来自澳大利亚的悉尼,今年18岁。近来我进行了首次远程火车之旅。真是太棒了! 我和一位朋友乘坐的是有名的阿富汗火车。我们在悉尼上车, 在澳大利亚中部的艾丽普林斯
7、下车,行程四千多公里。整个旅程花费了我们两天两夜。坐火车很舒服而且车上的食物也很可口。我们吃的美味饭菜是烹饪大师们做的。在旅程开始的几百公里, 风景优美。有成片的田野,那里的土壤是深红色。接着是沙漠。艳阳高照,没有风而且晴空万里。可是接着,时空像是突然发生了转变。映入眼帘的是建造于一百多年前一些废弃的农庄。火车很舒服而且车上的人也都很友好。白天,我坐着看窗外 ,有时和别的旅客说说话。我看书, 听着汉语录音带( 我在学校学汉语)。一天晚上, 大约是在半夜, 差不多有整整一个小时我都在注视着夜晚的天空。星星像钻石一样眨着眼。 为什么火车叫阿富汗号？很久以前,澳大利亚人到国家中部地区有很长一段路程。他们试着骑马,但那些马不喜欢炎热的天气和沙漠。一百五十年前, 他们从阿富汗带入了一些骆驼。Ghan是阿富汗的缩写。作长途旅行,骆驼比马匹强多了。 多年来, 经过训练的骆驼驮运食物及其他用品, 返回时还带着羊毛和其他产品。直到二十世纪二十年代,阿富汗人和他们的骆驼还在做着这样的工作。那时政府建了一条新的铁路线,所以阿富汗人不再需要骆驼了在1925年, 他们通过了法律,如果它们引发问题，允许人们射杀骆驼。在1935年,一个城镇的警察仅一天就射杀153头骆驼。
