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 Willy is 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 ffew steps ot the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose.Cotta “go”(想要方便一下)? Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant 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.)

Which of the following about Tayka Hotel de Sal is true?

      A.The hotel is the cheapest among the four mentioned.

      B.Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

      C.It is on an island in the Pacific Ocean.

      D.It is located on a prehistoric lake.

What is the similarity of the four hotels?

      A.Being expensive.     B.Being beautiful.      C.Being natural.  D.Being unique.

What does the underline part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

      A.The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

      B.The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

      C.The name of the hotel.

      D.The name of the hotel owner.

Which of the hotel 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

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】C

【小題2】D

【小題3】A

【小題4】D

【小題5】B


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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 Willy is 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 ffew steps ot the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose.Cotta “go”(想要方便一下)? Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant 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】Which of the following about Tayka Hotel de Sal is true?

A.The hotel is the cheapest among the four mentioned.
B.Everything in the hotel is made of salt.
C.It is on an island in the Pacific Ocean.
D.It is located on a prehistoric lake.
【小題2】What is the similarity of the four hotels?
A.Being expensive.B.Being beautiful.C.Being natural.D.Being unique.
【小題3】What does the underline part “Sweet Willy” refer to?
A.The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.
B.The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.
C.The name of the hotel.
D.The name of the hotel owner.
【小題4】Which of the hotel 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&B D.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.

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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.
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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(罩蓬). 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”.
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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 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.
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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.)
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Treebones Resort
Where: California, America        
How much: $100 a night
Why it’s cool: You can sleep in a “room” any night, but how often do you get the chance to sleep in a yurt. What’s a yurt? Good question. Yurts are the name given to guest rooms at the Treebones Resort. These spaces provide all of the accessibility to nature you’d enjoy in a tent, but with all the comforts of a cabin. In one of sixteen yurts, you will doze off(打盹兒) while gazing at the stars that can be seen through a sky dome.
【小題1】What is the main purpose of this passage?
A.To sell the hotels.
B.To attract guests.
C.To offer good service.
D.To get popular.
【小題2】If you want to experience a thrilling life, you’d better go to ____________.
A.Treebones Resort
B.Gamirasu Cave Hotel
C.Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
D.Green Magic Nature Resort
【小題3】Sweet Willy is the name of ____________.
A.a(chǎn) doghouse for the family pet
B.a(chǎn) thirty-foot-tall family dog
C.the building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
D.the guest rooms in Dog Bark Park Inn B&B
【小題4】Which of the following words can best describe all the five hotels in the passage?
A.Unique.B.Ordinary.C.Costly.D.Natural.

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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 ffew 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.)

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.

2.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A.Being expensive.    B.Being comfortable.  C.Being natural.      D.Being unique.

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.

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

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.

 

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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 Willy is 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 ffew steps ot the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose.Cotta “go”(想要方便一下)? Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant 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.)

1.Which of the following about Tayka Hotel de Sal is true?

      A.The hotel is the cheapest among the four mentioned.

      B.Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

      C.It is on an island in the Pacific Ocean.

      D.It is located on a prehistoric lake.

 

2.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

      A.Being expensive.  B.Being beautiful. C.Being natural.      D.Being unique.

3.What does the underline part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

      A.The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

      B.The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

      C.The name of the hotel.

      D.The name of the hotel owner.

4.Which of the hotel 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

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.

 

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