[中学联盟]辽宁省沈阳市第二十一中学高一英语（外研版，必修1）课件：Module3MyFirstRideonaTrain-ReadingandVocabulary.ppt

Step 2　Careful－reading Read the text again choose the best answers. 1．From the passage, we know that Alice Thompson is from ________. A．China　　　　　　　　 B．Afghanistan C．Australia D．Austria 2．Which is the right order of the following things? a．A new railway line was built and the camels were no longer used. b．Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country. c．Australians trained camels to carry food and other supplies. d．They tried riding horses to travel. A．bdca B．dbac C．acbd D．cabd 3．The writer talked a lot about camels in the text because ________. A．they played an important part in Australian life B．she was planning to travel on a camel C．she wanted to speak highly of the animals D．she wanted to explain why the train was called Ghan 4．The whole passage mainly tells us ________. A．the importance of the desert in Australia B．horses are of no use in travelling in desert C．its cruel to kill thousands of camels D．the transport to the middle of Australia Step 3　Listening Fill in the blanks according to the text. Alice, an 1.________ girl, comes from Sydney, Australia. Recently, Alice had her first 2.________ on a 3.________ train. The meals cooked by experts were great and the scenery was very 4.________. They first saw fields with dark red 5.________， and after that, desert and 6.________ farms appeared in front of them. During the ride Alice got on well with other passengers. Australians used different means of transportation to travel to the middle of the country. First they tried 7.________ horses and then camels. When the government built a new railway line, people are allowed to 8.________ the camels if they were a problem. Now only the train 9.________ Ghan is in 10.________. * Module 3 My First Ride on a Train Western Australia Northern Territory South Australia New South Wales Queensland Victoria ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 ) ( 5 ) ( 6 ) 1. Which is