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 dried­up lake which is the world’s biggest salt flat.Builders use the salt from the 4,633­square­mile flat to make the bricks，and glue them together with a paste (糊) 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：Taking 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(罩篷)．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 pulley­drawn “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_Willy is a 30­foot­tall 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 12­foot­tall 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 words “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 Sal.
B．Green Magic Nature Resort.
C．Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.
D．Gamirasu Cave Hotel.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:D

小題1:　A
解析　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Tayka Hotel de Sal介紹中的“The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni，a prehistoric dried­up lake...”可知答案。
小題2:D
解析　推理判斷題。文章介紹了四家風(fēng)格迥異的賓館：Tayka Hotel de Sal是用鹽建造的；Green Magic Nature Resort坐落在森林的樹頂上；Dog Bark Park Inn B&B的外形是一只三十英尺高的狗；Gamirasu Cave Hotel坐落在山洞里，所以說這四家賓館各具特色。
小題3:　C
解析　指代關(guān)系題。根據(jù)Dog Bark Park Inn B&B中對Sweet Willy的介紹：三十英尺高，木制樓梯，主臥室，閣樓，浴室等等，可以判斷出這是一個(gè)建筑的名字。
小題4:D
解析　細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Gamirasu Cave Hotel介紹中的“Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago...”可知答案。
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