[00:04.18]Lesson 13 1 Dialogue
[00:09.85]Jane and Betty are going on separate holidays in a few days time.
[00:16.09]Jane: Hello,Betty.When are you going off to Guangzhou?
[00:21.37]Betty: Next Thursday evening.
[00:24.42]How are you getting to the airport? Is anybody seeing you off?
[00:30.28]Yes,my brother Bob is coming with me to the airport to see me off.
[00:36.62]My plane leaves at seven,so I think we'll take a taxi.
[00:42.27]Where are you staying in Guangzhou?
[00:46.05]I hear that the hotels there are very expensive.
[00:51.02]I'm staying with a friend of mine.Her name is Kate Klarke.
[00:56.58]Kate Klarke! I know her.I met her last year.Do give her my regards?
[01:04.34]Of course I will.What about you? Aren't you going to Xi'an soon?
[01:11.00]That's right.On Friday.I'm going there for the holiday with my parents.
[01:17.84]How are you getting there? By train? No,by air.
[01:23.91]How long are you staying in Xi'an?
[01:27.77]Just the weekend.Well,I must be off.See you when I get back.
[01:34.22]Have a nice time in Guang zhou.And say "Hi" to Bob from me.
[01:40.26]Of course.Good luck.Have a good trip.
[01:44.91]Thanks.The same to you.Bye.
[01:54.47]Lesson 14 Reading
[01:59.04]Read this travel diary to answer these questions:
[02:04.50]1 Where did the writer go?
[02:08.86]2 How did she travel?
[02:13.02]A TRAVEL DIARY(1)
[02:16.07]Tuesday October 5th,199_.
[02:23.02] I'm sitting on a rock near the river with my friends.
[02:29.08]Our guide is cooking supper--I can smell it.
[02:34.36] We are having a wonderful time.
[02:38.20]I am in the middle of this great forest in South America.
[02:43.24]We can't travel through the forest by road,
[02:47.60]because there aren't any roads.
[02:51.26]So we have to travel by air or boat.
[02:55.93]We are enjoying our boat trip very much.
[03:00.48]At night we tie the boat to a big tree by the river bank near a village.
[03:07.64]Our guide buys some food from the villagers and we cook it ourselves.
[03:14.61]Sometimes we eat chicken,eggs,birds or monkeys.
[03:20.57]I think it is wrong to eat monkeys,so I don't.
[03:25.53]Most of the time we eat fish.
[03:29.97] All night long we can hear the strange sounds of wild birds and animals.
[03:36.53]There are parrots too.
[03:39.90]We can see them flying along the river.
[03:43.95]In the evening I love sitting by the fire and playing my guitar.
[03:49.90] It is dangerous to swim in the river.
[03:53.87]This afternoon I was just about to go swimming
[03:58.84]when luckily our guide saw me and shouted at me,"Stop! Don't swim!"
[04:06.49]He explained that there are dangerous fish in the river.
[04:11.45]The fish have very sharp teeth;
[04:15.40]they can eat a person in two minutes,leaving only the bones.
[04:21.77] Last week we started our trip across this country.
[04:27.13]After spending the weekend in the capital we took a taxi to the airport.
[04:33.48]Then we took off and flew over a part of the forest.
[04:39.07]What a sad sight it was !
[04:42.72]For miles and miles I could see nothing except a great fire and lots of smoke.
[04:50.77] There is not enough land by the sea.
[04:54.92]The population of the country is growing every minute.
[04:59.96]Many people cannot find work in the capital.
[05:04.82]They are moving into the forests.
[05:08.98]They travel until they come to a wild part of the forest.
[05:14.15]Then they burn the forest and plant crops for their cows.
[05:20.21]They can sell their beef at a high price in the capital.
[05:33.48]Lesson 15 1 Reading
[05:40.64] Read the second part of the diary and answer this question:
[05:46.28]What is happening to the forest?
[05:50.04]A TRAVEL DIARY (2)
[05:54.30] The farmers don't stay long in the same place.
[05:59.47]They move on to a new place every two or three years.
[06:05.35]I asked,"Why don't they stay? Isn't it easier to stay in the same place?
[06:13.50]Why do they move and burn more of the forest?"
[06:18.54]The answer is this:you can only grow crops in the forest for one or two years.
[06:26.27]The soil is very thin in the forest.
[06:30.40]It is only about 20 centimetres thick.
[06:35.08]It can easily be destroyed by the burning and by the cows.
[06:41.03]They soil is made from the dead leaves of the trees above.
[06:46.18]Under the soil there is nothing but sand.
[06:50.83]When this soil is destroyed,the forest land will become sand again.
[06:57.20]But this time there will be no trees to make new soil from their leaves |