课文内容:
first listen and then answer the question
Why is Tim finding this trip exciting?
I have just received a letter from my brother, Tim.
He is in Australia.
He has been there for six months.
Tim is an engineer.
He is working for a big firm and he has already visited a great number of different places in Australia.
He has just bought an Australian car and has gone to Alice Springs,
a small town in the centre of Australia.
He will soon visit Darwin ,
From there, he will fly to Perth.
My brother has never been abroad before,
so he is finding this trip very exciting.
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 He has been there for six months. 他在那儿已经住了6个月了。关于动词的现在完成时,可以参看第1册第83至87课。
2 a great number of…, 许多…,用于修饰复数可数名词。
3 in the centre of…, 在……中部。
参考译文
我刚刚收到弟弟蒂姆的来信,他正在澳大利亚。他在那儿已经住了6个月了。
蒂姆是个工程师,正在为一家大公司工作,并且已经去过澳大利亚的不少地方了。
他刚买了一辆澳大利亚小汽车,现在去了澳大利亚中部的小镇艾利斯斯普林斯。
他不久还将到达尔文去,从那里,他再飞往珀斯。
我弟弟以前从未出过国,因此,他觉得这次旅行非常激动人心。