1) What was men's grove estins? On August 7, the twenty-eight-year-old Robert Lous Stevenson aboard a steamship sailing from Glasgow for New York and staried ont voyage. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean took eleven days. Om the vey er Stevens read six volumes of American history so that he woud know somet reading for etc in for 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 carry him across the continent. The journey across America was ging seem longer than the sea voyage, not because it was longer, bat becas was harder. The train was not a fast one. It moved slowly or it stopped in wid open fields. The cars were so crowded that everyone had to sleep sitting up. Stevenson occupied himself with his notebook and peneil. 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! 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 clean ones. 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. 4) Read the extract carefully and decide if the following statements about Stevenson's journey are true (T) or false (F). Prove from the text. (reading for detail) A. It was the first time Stevenson travelled to America. B. Sea voyage from Britain to America took two weeks. C. During his trip Stevenson had to change the trains twice. D. During the trip Stevenson wrote notes for his book about American history. E. Stevenson decided to finish his trip in San Francisco because he was too tired to continue his way.