2.3 Reading for Writing（重点练）-2020-2021学年高一英语十分钟同步课堂专练（人教版2019必修第一册）

阅读理解 A Perhaps it is because it was our second train journey in China or possibly because of the later arrival time(which meant we didn’t need to get up at 5 am)that the trip from Xi’an to Chengdu seemed an easier journey than the one from Beijing to Xi’an. We settled into our room.As normal we had four beds in a cabin(隔间)for all the five of my family. We actually had a 5th bed in a separate cabin, but we preferred to sleep together. As we squeezed(挤压)our luggage into the shelves above the beds, we attracted the attention of a young student called Away who was with her mother and father. They laughed when they saw that we had so many children and so many people were in one cabin. We started talking and quickly became friends. As we had already eaten, we didn’t eat on the train this time. Instead, we spent the time reading and talking. The train was a little stuffy(闷热的)and we kept our door open. It was good to watch the coming and goings from the other cabins. The train was very bumpy(