Karen in America
互動天地
作者：By Karen Zhang
讀萬卷書不如行千裏路，旅遊是增長見識、開闊視野的最佳途徑之一。暑假來臨，你是否已經作好準備外出旅遊了呢？下麵我們來看看Karen的假期之旅——丹佛。丹佛是美國科羅拉多州的首府和最大城市，位於緊鄰落基山脈的平原上，在曆史上曾被稱為“草原上的女王城（Queen City of the Plains）”，可見丹佛在該地區農業的重要地位。
Summer is here now！ We all look forward to our summer trips. Well， let me take you to a western city in America. When I hear the word Denver， I immediately think of their NBA team， the Nuggets[丹佛掘金隊]. But my first visit to Denver tells me this city is more than just the Nuggets.
As the plane descended， I saw the white land plastered in snow as level as an endless bedspread[床單]. I did not believe that Denver was still hibernating[冬眠] in late winter while the trees had turned green along the East Coast.
“Denver’s weather is strange this year. Bring all your layers！” That’s what I was told by my host in Denver. Wearing a T-shirt and a big coat， I watched mile after mile of grassland on the way to the house of my host. Flat and sprawling， Denver reminded me of the Tibetan Plateau[高原]. I was stunned by the big blue sky and the vastness on both sides of the highway. There were neither visible livestock nor pedestrians[行人] outdoors.
Denver does have a peculiar animal called
A Prairie Dog[土撥鼠]！ You won’t find it along the East Coast. Why call them dogs？ They are too small to be dogs. They look more like squirrels. It turns out the animal stands up like a dog with a wiggling tail. The prairie dogs pop out of their holes on the boundless prairie[大草原]. Ha！ What an imaginative name！