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Peter has just posted a journal on his blog.

Dad gets it right! （finally）

Day five of the adventure in Italy and we’re in Naples. We arrived here early yesterday morning, but as usual we were only at the hotel for about five minutes before Dad wanted to take us somewhere. This time it was to the ancient city of Pompeii near Naples. I didn’t really want to go. I wanted to go shopping for shoes.

We travelled there by train. The journey didn’t take long—but long enough for Dad to tell us a bit about the history. Many years ago, Pompeii was a large Italian city near a volcano[1]called Mount Vesuvius—then on 24 August 79—the volcano broke out and completely covered the city in ash[2]. It killed about 20, 000 people. But the ash didn’t destroy the buildings and now, 2, 000 years later, you can walk around the city and see how people lived all those years ago.

(1) 000-year-old houses：thanks, Dad—really boring, I thought, but I was wrong! The houses were very interesting. Most of them were really big with lots of rooms（so lots of space to get away from troublesome brothers and sisters! ）There were paintings and mosaics[3]all over the walls. I’d love a Roman mosaic of One Direction on my bedroom wall. Also, I was amazed at the bathrooms. I’d love a big bathroom in our house—ours is so small!   

I got really interested in Pompeii. I wasn’t bored at all. In fact, I’ve got lots of ideas for our house when we get home!   

1．Does Dad often make quick or slow decisions on travelling destinations（目的地）?
________
2．Where are the family travelling during the five days?
________
3．What was Dad doing when the family was on the train to Pompeii?
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4．What ideas has Peter got for his house?（List two of his ideas. ）
Peter wants to have ________ and ________ .
5．Write a caption（说明文字） for the second picture. ________
6．Complete the table.

When?	How did Peter feel?	Why?
Before the family set out for Pompeii…	① ________	② ________
When the family was ready to leave Pompeii…	③ ________	④ ________