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【盐仓24秋】外研版（2024）英语八年级上册A本Module 2 My home town and my country Unit 2 第一课时
A visit to the old city of Petra in Jordan is an amazing experience (奇妙的经历). Around the city, there are mountains with many pink rocks (岩石). To get to the mountains, tourists walk for over a kilometre through a narrow hole (狭窄的洞) in the rock. Then they come to a large building in the side of a cliff (悬崖). Petra has many of these beautiful rock- cut buildings, and they make the city famous.
Two thousand years ago, Petra was a busy and noisy place. People came from far away to buy and sell in the market places. Later, the city became rich. At one time, more than 30, 000 people lived there. But the pink rocks were not as safe as they looked. Earthquakes (地震) made many of the buildings fall down. As the year went by, people couldn't come and live there any more. Finally, the world forgot the city of Petra.
In 1812, a Swiss traveller called Johann Burckhardt heard about the lost city. Local people told him that it was in the mountains, and someone took him there. When Burckhardt went back to Europe, he wrote about Petra and people started visiting the city.
▲ More than a million tourists go there every year. People sell postcards and cold drinks there. There are museums, shops and restaurants, but nobody lives there. At night, the old city is quiet again.
a. A traveller wrote about Petra after visiting it.
b. Lots of tourists started visiting Petra every year.
c. Petra became rich and many people lived there.
d. The world began to forget Petra after earthquakes.
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