题目内容
—Does your mother go to work by bike every day?
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Phileas Fogg reads the newspaper, “A railway has opened in India. You can now travel around the world in 80 days.”
London to Suez(苏伊士) | rail and ship | 7 days |
Suez to Bombay(孟买) | ship | 13 days |
Bombay to Calcutta(加尔各答) | rail | 3 days |
Calcutta to Hong Kong | ship | 13 days |
Hong Kong to Yokohama(横滨) | ship | 6 days |
Yokohama to San Francisco | ship | 22 days |
San Francisco to New York | rail | 7 days |
New York to London | ship | 9 days |
Total | 80 days |
Fogg’s friends will give him $20,000 if he finishes the journey in 80 days. He must be back on 21 December.
Fogg gets to Bombay on time but finds that the new railway line is not finished! Fogg rides an elephant instead! A tribe(部落) is going to kill a woman. Fogg saves her. On the ship to Hong Kong, the police wrongly arrest Fogg. He gets away.
Fogg’s friend gets on the next boat without Fogg. Fogg finds him in a circus in Yokohama.
Fogg’s train is attacked on the way to New York. Fogg continues by sledge(雪橇), then train. He misses the ship to England. Fogg pays for another boat to England. The police arrest Fogg again but soon let him go. Fogg is now late.
However, Fogg has crossed the date line. He still has one more day! He wins the money.
Read again and fill in the blanks according to the passage.
I’m Phileas Fogg. One day I read in the n1. that a railway had opened in India and people could now travel around the world in 80 days. My friends bet (打赌) me $20,000 that I couldn’t travel around the world in 80 days. I must be back on 21 December if I wanted to win the money. I got to Bombay on time but f2. the rail way was not finished yet, so I rode an elephant i3. I was arrested by the police on the s4. to Hong Kong, but I got away. My train to New York was attacked so I m5. the ship to England. Then I was late and had to take a6. boat to England. I thought I was late and couldn’t get the money. H7., I had crossed the dead line and I still had one m8.day!