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Alice Thompson is a girl from Sydney, Australia. She had her first long __（1）__ (distant) train ride at the age of18. Together with a friend, she got on the famous Ghan train in Sydney __（2）_ got off in Alice Springs. During the two days and nights, they ate meals __（3）___(cook)by experts and saw fields, desert and ___（4）__(abandon) farms.
In the daytime, Alice talked to other passengers and read some books. At night, she watched the stars in the sky ___（5）_ shone like diamonds.
The train ___（6）__(call) the Ghan, which is short _（7）_Afghanistan. A long time ago, Australians wanted to
travel to the middle of their country, so they brought some camels from Afghanistan __（8）__ (carry) food and
other supplies, and returned with wool and other _（9）_ (produce).They did that until the 1920s, when the government built a new railway line and took _（10）__ place of camels.