Unit 4 Section 4 Using Language & Assessing Your Progress-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册（人教版）

Section 4　Using Language & Assessing Your Progress 阳光晨读 微点释疑 原|文|诵|读 SEEING THE TRUE NORTH VIA RAIL: TORONTO AND MONTREAL After Li Daiyu and her cousin arrived in Toronto, the largest and wealthiest city in Canada, they only had a few hours to kill before they had to proceed① to the next leg of their trip to Montreal, so they went on a tour of the city. They went up the CN Tower and looked across the shores② of Lake Ontario. Standing in the distance, they were astonished③ to see misty④ clouds rising from the great Niagara Falls⑤, which is on the south side of the lake. Water from the lake flows into the Niagara River and over the falls on its way to the sea. 　　The girls saw hundreds of skyscrapers of glass and steel⑥, and old⁃fashioned cars rolling by. As they walked north from the harbour area, Li Daiyu said, “Lin Fei, one of my mother􀆳s old schoolmates, lives here. I should phone her and see if she􀆳s available for dinner.” 　　They met Lin Fei around dusk⑦ over dinner at a restaurant in downtown Chinatown. The cousins chatted with Lin Fei, who had moved to Canada many years earlier. 　　“This is the largest Chinatown in Toronto. We have a few more in the Greater Toronto Area, so you can guess that there are a lot of Chinese people in Canada! Chinese people have been coming here for more than a hundred years. Therefore, we can get all kinds of great food here from all over China,” Lin Fei told them. 　　The train left late that night and arrived in Montreal⑧ early the next morning. At the station, in contrast to Toronto, they heard people talking in French. They were surprised to see that all the signs and advertisements⑨ were in French and many people spoke English with an accent⑩. 　　“We don􀆳t leave until this evening,” said Liu Qian.“Let􀆳s go downtown. Old Montreal is close to the water.” 　　They spent the afternoon in lovely shops and visiting artists in their workplaces along St Paul Street. As they sat in a restaurant alongside the broad St Lawrence River, a yo