Tayka Hotel De Sal
Where: Tahua, Bolivia
How much: About $95 a night
Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses(床墊) and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.
Green Magic Nature Resort
Where: Vythiri, India
How much: About $240 a night
Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑輪)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.
Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
Where: Cottonwood, Idaho
How much: $92 a night
Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet.Sweet Willyis a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft(閣樓)in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant (消防栓)outside.
Gamirasu Cave Hotel
Where: Ayvali, Turkey
How much: Between $130 and $475 a night
Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer. (Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)
小題1:What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?
A.It is located on a prehistoric lake.
B.It should be protected against the rain.
C.Everything in the hotel is made of salt.
D.You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.
小題2:What is the similarity of the four hotels?
A.Being expensive.B.Being comfortable.
C.Being natural.D.Being unique.
小題3:What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?
A. The name of the hotel.
B. The name of the hotel owner.
C. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.
D. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.
小題4:Which of the hotels makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?
A.Tayka Hotel De SalB.Green Magic Nature Resort
C.Dog Bark Park Inn B&BD.Gamirasu Cave Hotel
小題5:What may be the purpose of the writer writing the passage?
A.To show his wide knowledge
B.To introduce some interesting hotels
C.To develop business in tourism
D.To attract attention from the readers

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:D
小題5:B

試題分析:文章很有意思的介紹了四種有趣的旅館,一個是由鹽所建成的賓館、一個是通過滑輪才能上去的樹頂上的酒店、一個是住在一個有30英尺高的狗的肚子里、一個是山洞里的旅館,每一個都很獨特。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。從第一段The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat.中可得知Tayka Hotel de Sal 坐落于一座史前的鹽湖上。故選A
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。四個旅館都有自己的特色,都與眾不同。一個是由鹽所建成的賓館、一個是通過滑輪才能上去的樹頂上的酒店、一個是住在一個有30英尺高的狗的肚子里、一個是山洞里的旅館,所以每一個都很獨特,故選D
小題3:推斷題。從倒數(shù)第2個酒店可知,Sweet Willy是一只有著30英尺高的狗。故Sweet Willy指的是The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B .故選C
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題。本題不難,從Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash.But your stay will be much more modern.可知在Gamirasu Cave Hotel你將會有一種居住在5000年以前的感覺。故選D
小題5:推斷題。文章介紹了四種酒店,而且這四種每個都有自己的特色,所以作者寫作的目的是介紹一些有趣的旅館。故選B
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