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[00:00.00]恒星英语学习网 CHAPTER THREE   Reading
[00:03.81]page 39   PLACES OF INTEREST
[00:08.86]Last Saturday,Debbie arrived at Sunbeam Travel and was given an urgent job.
[00:15.70]Mr Yang gave her this information
[00:19.67]and asked her to arrange a tour programme
[00:23.72]for a group of 20 tourists visiting China.
[00:28.08]1 The Great Wall rises and falls,
[00:33.12]twists and turns along the hill-tops of mountain chains in northern China.
[00:40.49]It is the only man-made structure which can be seen from space.
[00:46.73]Construction of the wall began in the fifth century B.C.
[00:52.58]The wall finally took shape in the the third century B.C.
[00:57.76]It is preserved as a historic monument today.
[01:02.72]Travellers can go by car or train
[01:07.37]to visit a famous section of the wall called Badaling,
[01:13.01]which is 85 kilometres north of Beijing.
[01:18.47]2 The new Shanghai Museum Building
[01:23.33]is a magnificent structure with a square base and a circular top.
[01:29.57]The centre of the top is a glass dome
[01:33.65]which looks like a huge bronze mirror of the Han Dynasty.
[01:39.81]The museum's collections of ancient Chinese bronze,ceramics,
[01:45.87]paintings and calligraphy are well-known in the world.
[01:51.44]Museum open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
[01:57.60]3The Peak Tram has been making the seven-minute journey to the Peak since 1888.
[02:06.75]You can enjoy a superb view of Hong Kong from the Peak.
[02:12.39]The lower terminus is only a five-minute walk from the Bank of China Building.
[02:19.55]4 The scenery along the Lijiang River in Guilin
[02:25.29]is just like a beautiful landscape painting.
[02:29.76]Take a boat trip,and you will be fascinated by the oddly-shaped hills and peaks
[02:36.21]along the river and also their reflections in the clear water.
[02:42.09] LISTENING page 42
[02:46.35]Following directions on a map.
[02:50.71]Listen to this conversation.
[02:54.47]The woman is telling the man about her tour of Europe last summer.
[03:01.55]Using a pencil,draw lines on the map of Europe to show where she went.
[03:09.91]Next to each line,write down how she travelled(e.g.by plane),as in the example.
[03:20.96]Woman:We had a very good tour of Europe last summer.
[03:26.52]Man:Where did you go?
[03:29.68]Woman:Well,first we flew to Amsterdam.
[03:35.54]  After a couple of days in Amsterdam,we went to Berlin.
[03:42.62]  We took a train from Amsterdam to Berlin.
[03:48.18]Man:Did you stay there long?
[03:52.15]Woman:Just a couple of days,then we went by bus from Berlin to Brussels.
[04:02.00]Man:Did you see any snow,when you were in Europe?
[04:07.95]Woman:Yes,we went from Brussels to Zurich.We went by train.
[04:15.90] Zurich is in Switzerland and it's very high in the mountains.
[04:23.16]  So we saw some snow even though it was the summer.
[04:28.90]Man:Where did you go after Zurich?
[04:33.87]Woman:Well,we hired a car in Zurich and we drove from there down to Venice.
[04:42.62]Man:Was it difficult to go by car?
[04:47.37]Woman:No,we just had to drive carefully,especially over the mountains.
[04:56.02]  We stayed in Venice for several days,it's a beautiful city.
[05:03.60]  Then we went by bus to Rome.
[05:08.95]After staying in Rome for a few days,
[05:13.91]we went by boat to Barcelona,that's where they had the Olympic Games in 1994.
[05:23.47]Man:Did you like Spain?
[05:27.24]Woman:Yes,but it was very hot.
[05:31.91]We went from Barcelona to Madrid by bus,hence,that was a very hot journey.
[05:40.24]Then we hired a car and drove over to Lisbon in Portugal.
[05:47.90]Man:Was that the end of your tour?
[05:52.76]Woman:Oh,no,we flew from Lisbon by plane up to Edinburgh in Scotland.
[06:01.53]We spend a day or two there,looking around Scotland,and then hired another car,
[06:10.18]and drove down through England,until we got to London.
[06:16.53]Then we took the new train that goes under the channel
[06:22.56]and went by train from London to Paris.
[06:28.13]Man:You must had been tired by that time?
[06:33.17]Woman:Yes,we were,but we stayed in Paris for a week,just to relax.
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