Period 5 Extended reading(1) Ⅰ. Choose the best answers to the following questions according to the text. ( ) 1. Why did the author decide to respect and protect the unique landscape A. Because the Sahara is a “fragile natural environment”． B. Because he volunteered to keep the balance of nature. C. Because he didn't want to disturb the boy and his goats. D. Because Merzouga's nature hasn't been in good condition. ( ) 2. What did the author see when in the desert A. The cloudless blue sky. B. A variety of wild plants. C. A number of yellow roadside signs. D. A small boy with a group of goats. ( ) 3. When did the family arrive at the desert camp A. At dawn. B. At lunchtime. C. At sunset. D. At midnight. ( ) 4. How did they get their car out of the mud A. With the help of two local people. B. With the hard push of the author's mother and himself. C. With the author's father driving hard enough. D. With people on the border dragging it. ( ) 5. What is “the greatest show” on the Earth A. A small grey monkey eating their banana. B. Five similar huts facing Mount Kilimanjaro. C. The African wildlife moving around the plains. D. The mountain rising up over the plains before them. Ⅱ. Answer the following questions according to the text. 1. What did the author see when he took a long look at the yellow roadside sign 2. What did the author's father insist on doing in Kenya 3. What did the author notice after they got out of the car 1. Why did the author think travelling in Africa was an adventure 2. What did the author think of the Sahara Desert 3. Why did the author and his mother wave from the car window 1. What's the author's attitude towards wildlife 2. What is special about Mount Kilimanjaro 根据课文内容填空。 My parents and I had just driven down the narrow mountain road from Marrakesh, and had finally arrived at Merzouga. Before us 1. _____ (stretch) the unending sand dunes that marked the beginning of the Sahara. It wasn't long 2. _____ we were surrounded by enormous sand dunes towering above us on all sides. The wind was blowing grains of sand from the tops of the dunes, the sun 3. _____ (beat) down hard and bright, and the sky was a deep shade of blue 4. _____ I had never seen before. The wild 5. _____ (beautiful) of the desert was about to reveal 6. _____ (it). The colours of the dunes contrasted strikingly with the blue of the cloudless sky. A few days after our 7. _____ (depart) from the camp, our car was well and truly stuck in the mud. We were very near to our rest camp in Amboseli National Park located on the border of Kenya when my father, 8. _____ my mother's advice, decided to drive through a large pool of water that stretched across the dirt road. Two tall slim local people were standing by the roadside 9. _____ (watch) us with amusement. They must have realized that we were 10. _____ (total) helpless, for after a few moments, they wandered over and pushed us free. Ⅰ. 话题拓展阅读。 Driving on up to Yosemite with ... ...
~~ 您好，已阅读到文档的结尾了 ~~
