P 20.      

Rapids/  glacier/  mountain/   delta/   plain/  valley/  waterfall/  bank

I really enjoyed my school field trip in geography two months ago. We saw so many beautiful things: a              that flowed like a river of ice through a              that cut the mountain into two parts. We also discovered a river that was falling off the mountain and became a wonderful              . This was even more exciting to see than the            where the water seemed to boil. Later we followed the river to a quieter       and finally into a             and the sea.   

 give in;   determined;     persuade;    care about;   is fond of;   prefer;   organized;   fare;    cycle;

1.He is so stubborn that no one can              him to do anything.
2.A             person always tries to finish the job, no matter how hard it is.
3.My grandpa              fishing and sometimes he fishes all day in the river.
4.Liu xiaoding is a good teacher and             his students very much.
5.I              the red dress to the green one because it fits me better.
6.The concert went like clockwork because Li Pei had            it so well.
7.I wanted to pay the train            , but my friend insisted. Finally, I             .
8.She persuaded all of us to               to work instead of taking the bus.
1.As neither of them would             , no decision was taken that day. (give in/ give up)
2.I             the first flat we saw            because it was larger. (like… better/ prefer…to)
3.The task was difficult, but Helen’s             expression let me know that she would not give up. (stubborn/ determined)
4.The list of gifts was very long, and we don’t know why, but the most important            , the golden cup, was forgotten. (detail/ item)
5.How I wish I could make a             into space and see the stars up close.  (journey/ travel)
6.When she returned from his successful climb of Mount Qomolongma, Andrew finished his travel             (journal/ diary) and gave it to the newspaper.
7.She had only one             :she was very stubborn. (disadvantage/ shortcoming)
8.The very first time that Joe saw the film “ET” directed by Steven Spielberge, he               to become a director too. (make up one’s mind/ change one’s mind)

P 22.   PART 2    A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS           

 for miles；        as usual
Although it was autumn, the snow was a              beginning to fall in Tibet. Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like b           of ice. Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles? That's what we looked like! Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles f             . However, the lakes shone like glass in the s      sun and looked wonderful. Wang Wei rode in front of me              . She is very r            and I knew I didn't need to e            her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were surprised by the v            . We seemed to be able to see             . At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. Then we began going down the hills. It was great fun e             as it gradually became much warmer. In the valleys colorful b             flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green grass. At this point we had to change our caps, coats, g               and trousers for T-shirts and s             .
In the early evening we always stop to make camp. We put up our t            and then we eat. After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her p            and went to sleep but I stayed a             . At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It was so quiet. There was almost no wind-only the f             of our fire for c            . As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already traveled. We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our c             Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join us. We can hardly wait to see them!

P26   A NIGHT THE EARTH DIDN'T SLEEP       

look for,        think little of,        as usual,  
Strange things were h             in the countryside of northeast Hebei. For three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. Farmers n            that the well walls had deep c              in them. A s              gas came out of the cracks. In the f            , the chickens and even the pigs were too n             to eat. Mice run out of the fields looking for places to hide. Fish jumped out of their bowls and p           . At about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sky. The sound of planes could be h             outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the sky. In the city, the water p             in some buildings cracked and burst. But the one million people of the city, who              these events, were asleep            that night.        

as if      at an end    in ruins

At 3:42 am everything began to s              . It seemed             the world was              ! Eleven kilometers d             below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th c            had begun. It was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers away. One-third of the n             felt it. A huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and c            . Steam burst from h             in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay              . The suffering of the people was e              . Two-thirds of them died or were left w              parents. The number of people who were killed or i              reached more than 400,000.        
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