1. Journey down the Mekong

2. China
Laos
Myanmar
(缅甸）
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam

3. Cheap
Environment-friendly
Healthy
Convenient
… …
Tiring
Be influenced by weather
A little slow
… …

4. Why did Wang Kun ask this question? Wang Wei’s response
Questions
Why did Wang Kun ask this question?
Wang Wei’s
response
Time, leaving,
coming back
Long, have a schedule
A determined look
His sister doesn’t care about details
Source, Qinghai
Whether she had looked at the map
altitude,
air
Excited, an interesting experience
Prepare in advance
oxygen

5. Wang Wei’s attitudes Wang Kun’s attitudes
It is too cold and high to start in Qinghai.
They should prepare much.
He thinks he can do better than her sister.
They must start in Qinghai where the river begins.
They don’t need to prepare much.
She want to organize the trip.
stubborn very positive risk-taking eager imaginative
less positive critical sensible

6. Pa 1 dream, bike/cycle, Mekong
It was our dream that made us decide to cycle along the Mekong river.

7. Pa 2 stubborn, organize
Wang Wei is so stubborn that she insisted she organize the trip.

8. Pa 3 atlas, geography
With a large atlas, we learned some detail geography conditions along the river.

9. E middle school, my sister and I have dreamed about a great bike trip
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tubborn
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10. Before our journey, we went to the library to get some details of the g along the river. With a large a , we learned Mekong River begins in a g What’s more, it starts to moves r as it passes through the deep v and later it slows its p after entering Southeast Asia.
eography
tlas
lacier
apidly
alleys
ace