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Book3-Unit4 How do you get to school? Reading Comprehension A It seems that traveling is very important in modern life. The fastest way of travelling is by plane. You can travel by plane in one day to places which is took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago. Travelling by train is slower than by plane, but it has its advantages. You can see the country you are travelling through. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining-cars. They make even the longest journey enjoyable. Some people prefer to travel by sea sometimes. There are large liners or riverboats. You visit many other countries and different parts of your country on them. Ships are not so fast as trains or places, but travelling by sea is a very pleasant way to spend a holiday. Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, just as you like. You can stop wherever you wish where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal, or at a hotel to spend the night. That is why travelling by car is popular for pleasant trips , while people usually take trains or places when they are travelling on business.1. What does the passage mainly talk about?2. How many kinds of transportations can you find in the passage? What are they?3. What does the author think of these transportations?1) Travelling by plane is the _way.2) Travelling by train can make the long journey _.3) Travelling by sea is a _way to spend your holiday.4) It is _ to travel by car because you can make your own timetable.4. If you travel on business, what will be the best way for you?5. Match the following words with the similar words according to the passage?1) Advantage a trip2) Journey happy3) Liners schedule 4) Pleasant good things5) Timetable ships BCars are an important part of life in the United States. Most people feel that they are poor without cars. Though he is poor, he doesnt feel really poor when he has a car. Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars. Maybe, he didnt know how much the car was going to affect the United States. The cars made the United States a country on wheels. And they have helped to make the United States a rich and modern country. The car has become popular in the United States today. The country is a very large one. The Americans like to move around in it. It is the easiest and cheapest to travel in cars. With a car, people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.Answer the following questions:1)What do American people think of cars?2)What do cars mean to the United States?3)Is it the best way to travel by car in America? Why?4)Can you give a title to this passage?5) Complete the following sentences using the following words from the passage, then guess their meanings.Poor Rich Affect Wheelsa. A car usually has four _.b. That man has a lot of money and he is really _.c. The other day, I gave 5 yuan to a _woman on the street.d. Computers _ our life in many ways. Life will be totally different with computers. C The United States is full of cars. There are still many families without cars., but some families have two or _1_. However, cars used for more than pleasure. _2_are an important part of life.Cars are used for _3_. They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other ways to get to their jobs. When salesmen are sent to different parts of the city, they have to drive so that they can _4their goods. _5_ have to drive into cities to buy things.Sometimes small children must be driven to school. In some cities, when children are young, their _6_take turns to drive them to school. One mother drives on Monday, taking her children and the _7_as well. Another mother drives on Tuesday, another on Wednesday and so on. So people say they form a car pool. Men also form car poolsthree or four of them take turns to drive to the place where they all work.More car pools should be formed so that _8_cars will be put on the road and less oil will be used. Car-leaving place is a great problem, and _9_is the over-busy road in and around cities. Too many cars are being driven. Something will have to be done about _10_cars.1.Decide true or false:1)All American families have at least one car.2) American people use cars only for pleasure.3) Workers drive cars to offices and factories when they dont have other ways to go to work.4) Salesmen have to drive their cars into cities to buy things.5) Only mothers form a car pool to drive small children to school.6) There is no problem for people to park their cars in America. 2.In how many ways do American people use their cars? What are they? 3.Do you think cars are used well in the United States? Why or why not?4. Please translate the sentences into Chinese according to the passage.1) The United States is full of cars.2) They are driven to offices and factories by workers who have no other ways to get to their jobs.3) Men also form car poolsthree or four of them take turns to drive to the place where they all work.Discussion: How do you get