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My name is Alice Thompson£®I come from Sydney£¬Australia and I¡¯m 18 years old£®Recently I had my first ride on a long-distance train£®And what a ride! A friend and I traveled on the famous Chan train£® We got on in Sydney and______ in Alice Springs£¬right in the middle of Australia£®
The train was wonderful and the food was great£®We ate great meals cooked by experts! For the first few hundred kilometers of the journey£¬the scenery was very colorful£®After that£¬It was desert£®The sun shone£¬there was no wind and there were no clouds in the sky£®Suddenly£¬it looked like a place from another time£®
The train was comfortable and the people were nice£®During the day£¬I sat and looked out of the window'£¬and sometimes talked to other passengers£®I read books and listened to my Chinese cassettes £¨I¡¯m studying Chinese at school£©£®One night£¬at about midnight£¬I watched the night sky for lot about an hour£®The stars shone like diamonds£®
Why is the train called the Chan? A long time ago£¬Australians needed a way to travel to the middle of the country£®They tried riding horses£¬but the horses didn¡¯t like the hot weather and sand£®A hundred and fifty years ago£¬they brought some camels from Afghanistan£®Chan is short for Afghanistan£®Camels were much better than horses for traveling a long distance£®For many years£¬trained camels carried food and other supplies£¬and returned with wool and other products£®
Then the movement built a new railway line£¬so they didn¡¯t need the camels any more£®In 1925£¬they passed a law which allowed people to shoot the animals if they were a problem£®I 1935£¬the police in a town shot 153 camels in one day£®
1£®What¡¯s the best title of the passage?£¨Please answer within 10 words£©
2£®Which sentence in the passage call be replaced by the following one?
When we traveled for the first few hundred kilometers of the journey£¬the view was very beautiful£®
3£®Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence£®£¨Please answer within lo words£©
4£®What do you think of camels as transportation in the past?
5£®Translate the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese£®
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3£®We got off
4£®Camels were much better than horses because they could bear hot weather and sand£®
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