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关于三年级英语故事阅读 Liz was excited. She was going to Asia with her mom. Neither of them had ever traveled out of the United States before. They were going to fly to Hong Kong. After staying in Hong Kong for three nights, they would travel on their cruise ship to Shanghai and Beijing. Beijing is inland, so we have to take about a two-hour bus ride to get there from the port. I forget the name of the port. Anyway, were going to see the Great Wall, the Tiananmen Square, and the Forbidden City. It’s going to be so cool! she told her neighbor Jane. From China, the cruise ship would go to Pusan in South Korea, and finally to Tokyo. From Tokyo, they would catch a flight back to Los Angeles. The trip is going to last three weeks. Its only going to cost us $2,800 each, IF we can control our urge to shop, she laughed. I hope your trip is more fun than mine was, said Jane. I took a cruise to the Bahamas, but almost all the passengers got sick. I caught some kind of virus that made me throw up for almost three days. They gave us a discount that we could use on a future trip. Ha! No more cruising for me. Weve heard about those disasters, said Liz. Mom and I are going to be washing our hands every 30 minutes, and were bringing surgical masks with us. Jerome turned off the TV. He had just watched a couple of South Park cartoons. South Park is an amusing series about elementary school kids living in a small town in Colorado. The first cartoon was about Herman, who wanted to become strong and muscular. He asked his mother to buy a supplement that was advertised on TV. The supplement was actually nothing but sugar, but the TV ad promised that it would make you strong and muscular. Instead, it made Herman very fat. Worse, Herman refused to believe that he had become fat. Even though all his friends were calling him Super Fat Boy, he told them that he was Super Muscle Boy. Finally, when Herman walked onto the stage to receive an award in the school auditori