五、短文填空（根据课文内容填空，每空只填一词, 每小题0.5分，共计5分）
Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. _______________ than take the aeroplane all the way, they took the train west to east _______________ Canada. The thought that they could cross the whole _______________ was exciting.
Canada is the second biggest country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada’s most beautiful city _______________ by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, It is so wet there that the trees are _______________ tall.
That afternoon aboard the train the cousins _______________ down in their seats. They know cowboys from all over the world compete in the Stampede. Many cowboys have a _______________ for riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live _______________ a few hundred kilometers of the USA _______________and the population is only _______________ over thirty million.
