There are many unusual hotels around the world .In Greenland ,there is a hotel made out of ice ,open between December and April every year .In Turkey ,there is a cave hotel with a television ,furniture ,and a bathroom in each room .And in Bolivia ,there is the Salt Palace Hotel .

Thousands of years ago ,the area has the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake . But over time ,all the water disappeared . Today ,the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts .

The larger of the two deserts the Uyuni salt desert ,is 12000 square kilometers .During the day ,the desert is bright white because of the salt .There are no roads across the Uyuni desert ,so local people must show guests the way to the hotel .

In the early 1900s ,a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel .He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt ;the walls , the roof , the chairs , the tables ,the beds ,and the hotels bar .

The Sun heats the walls and the roof during the day . At night is very cold , but the rooms stay warm . The hotel has twelve rooms . A single room costs 40 dollars a night .and a double room costs 60 dollars .

A sign on the hotels wall tells guests ,Please do not lick ??the walls.

1.What is unique about the Salt palace hotel ?

A. Its long history

B. The  price  of the rooms.

C. The guests that stay there

D. What it is made of

2.Which sentences about the area around the Salt palace hotel  is  NOT true?

A. It was a lake many years ago .

B. It is white during the day .

C. There are several roads to the hotel.

D. It is more than 10,000 square kilome ters.

3.Who is Juan Quesada?

A. A hotel guest           B. A guide

C. The hotels owner        D. An expert .

4.who keeps the rooms warm at night ?

A. Heat from the walls.       B. The desert air ,

C. The sun.                 D. The furniture .

 

Blue Water World

A great place for the whole family We have... * a gym * a hot spring bath * swimming pools * a cinema all with activities or lessons for both you and your children Price: ￥80 a person ￥40 for children under 14 Open: 11:00 a.m.～ 11:00 p.m. except Monday The fun never stops at Blue Water World! Telephone: 555-5683/555-5686 Website: www.bluewaterworld.com.cn

【小題1】Mr. Smith wants to go to Blue Water World with his family, so they can go there ________.

A．at 5:00 pm on Monday	B．at 10:00 am on Tuesday
C．at 2:00 pm on Sunday	D．at 11:00 am on Monday

【小題2】Who would most likely go to Blue Water World often?

A．Mr. Wang; he loves taking a hot spring bath.

B．Miss Gao; she is looking for a place to go fishing.

C．Mr. Chen; he enjoys swimming in the early morning.

D．Mrs. Jin; she needs a quiet place to talk about business.

【小題3】Mr. Lin wants to go to Blue Water World with his eight-year-old twin sons this Saturday. How much will they have to pay?

A．￥80

B．￥240

C．￥160

D．￥40

【小題4】If you go to Blue Water World, you can do all the following things there except _______.

A．watching movies	B．doing exercise
C．taking a bath	D．eating Italian food

Hong Kong has about 40 public(公共的) beaches.  Some of the beaches are among the best in the world. People can go there for a swim. You can go to most of them by bus. To go to some beaches, you must take a boat. There are toilets, changing rooms and places to buy food and drink on most of the beaches.
You will swim there without danger if you remember these instructions: 1. Never swim alone. 2. Never swim after a meal or when feel hungry or tired. 3. Do not stay in the water too long. 4. Never go out in a boat if you cannot swim.
Remember: A red flag (旗幟) means that it is dangerous for anybody to go into the water. A blue flag means that it is dangerous for children.
【小題1】There are _______ public beaches in Hong Kong.
A. about forty   b. about fifty      C. about thirty     D. about twenty
【小題2】We can get to ________ by bus.

A．all the public beaches

B．a few public beaches

C．many public beaches

D．most of the public beaches

【小題3】It’s dangerous for children to swim when you see ________.

A．a red flag

B．a yellow flag

C．a blue flag

D．an orange flag

【小題4】When you see a red flag, you know that __________ there.

A．women should not swim

B．children should not swim

C．nobody should swim

D．anybody can swim

【小題5】The passage mainly tells us _______ in Hong Kong.

A．the public beaches and swimming

B．the danger of swimming

C．the best beaches

D．the difficulties to go swimming

His grandfather and grandmother _____Chongqing for 40 years. They like living there.

        A. have been in               B. have been to    

C. have gone to              D. have moved to 

 

In Europe many people died during the Second World War. As a result, at the end of the war there were many orphans（孤兒）there. A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help these children. His idea was simple. He wanted orphans to have a home, and he wanted them to have the care and kindness of parents. Gmeiner asked people to give him some money. With this money he built the first SOS Children’s Village at Imst, in Austria. It opened in1949. This is how the SOS stand for “Save Our Souls（靈魂）.” This means “Please help us!” An SOS Children’ village gives help to orphans.
Hermann Gmeiner’s idea for helping orphans soon spread（傳播）all over the world. By 1983 there were 170 SOS Children’s Villages in the world. People in many countries give money to help the villages. Today the children from the first village have grown up. Now some of them work in other SOS Children’s Villages.
In SOS Villages orphans live in family groups. There are several houses in each village. The biggest village has 40 or 50 houses! Between seven and ten children live in a house. A woman lives with each group of children and looks after them. She gives the children a lot of love and kindness. She cooks meals for them and makes comfortable, happy home for them.
Of course, the children don’t spend all their time in the village. They go to school, they go out with their friends. But the village gives them a home—sometimes for the first time in their lives.
【小題1】Which of the following came last?

A．People gave Gmeiner some money.

B．There were many orphans at the end of the war

C．Gmeiner built the first SOS Children’s Village

D．A man called Hermann Gmeiner wanted to help the orphans

【小題2】An orphan is a child    .

A．who has no brother

B．who has no sister

C．who has no parents

D．all of the above

【小題3】We can conclude（推論）from the article that the money for helping the SOS Villages mainly comes from       .

A．governments	B．special organization
C．the orphans themselves	D．people in general（大體上）

【小題4】Which of the following can best summarize（總結） the work a woman in an SOS Village does for each group of children?

A．She gives the children a lot of love and kindness	B．She lives with each group of children
C．She cooks meals for children	D．She looks after them