4. The author of the book Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, travelled abroad many times. Read a passage from the book by C. O. Peare about one of Stevenson's trips. 1) What was Stevenson's travel destination? (reading for specific information) On August 7, the twenty-eight-year-old Robert Louis Stevenson went aboard a steamship sailing from Glasgow for New York and started out his voyage. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean took eleven days. On the way over Stevenson read six volumes of American history so that he would know something about the country when he arrived. There was not time to look around at the sights in New York City. He posted all the letters he had written aboard the ship and ran to the train that was to carry him across the continent. The journey across America was going to seem longer than the sea voyage, not because it was longer, but because it was harder. The train was not a fast one. It moved slowly or it stopped in wide- open fields. The cars were so crowded that everyone had to sleep sitting up. Stevenson occupied himself with his notebook and pencil, writing down everything he saw. This experience would make a travel story. The Pennsylvania mountains were green like those in Scotland. The train reached Pittsburgh the evening of the second day. After two days of travel, the passengers could at last get out and buy proper meal. Stevenson was having one new experience after another. "This is a country of surprise!" he declared. He climbed back aboard the train and rode all night. When it was daylight, he looked out of the window at the flat plains of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. At Chicago the next evening everyone had to change trains. And he had gone only a third of the way! clean ones. At last, the train reached Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains, But Stevenson was too tired to enjoy the views. In Utah they had to change trains again. Everyone was glad to leave the dirty cars and climb into The next morning the train was passing some other mountains, These mountains were covered with fresh pine trees. He was in California at last! The same day the train stopped at the city of Sacramento. Stevenson took his luggage and ran with the crowd to the ferry that would carry them to San Francisco. "Now all I have to do is find Monterey," he said. Monterey was more than eighty miles to the south. There he planned to finish his journey. 2) Find the geographical names in the passage to match with the transcription signs. (using pronunciation keys) A. [.pensil'veinia] B. ['gla:zgəu] C. [au'haiau] D. ['pitsb3:g] … E. [sækro'mentau] F. ['ju:ta:] G. [wai'aumin] H. [al'noi]