Adventure Vacations
People like different kinds of vacations. Some go camping. They swim, fish, cook over a fire and sleep outside. Others like to stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day and go dancing all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan or the Louver.
Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They don’t want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure--a surprising and exciting trip. They want to learn something and maybe help people too. How can they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships, but they’re a lot of fun. One organization, Earth watch, sends small groups of volunteers to different parts of the world. Some volunteers spend two weeks and study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of the past.
Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team of volunteers is leaving from Mormons, Russia. The leader of this trip is a professor from Alaska. He’s worried about chemicals from factories. He and the volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen kilometers every day.
Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow orders such as “Bring me the large ball.” They also understand opposites. How much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows orcas. We call orcas “killer Whale”, but they’re really dolphins—the largest kind of dolphin. This beautiful animal travels together in family groups. They move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers. Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth watch is studying how this happens.
Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in Pompeii. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the past.
Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to travel far, work hard and learn a lot? Then an Earth watch vacation is for you.
小題1:The Tai Mahan may be _______.
A．a(chǎn) shopping centerB．a(chǎn) hotel　
C．a(chǎn) dancing hallD．a(chǎn) place of interest
小題2:From the passage, on an adventure trip, people ______.
A．may not spend much time on sightseeing
B．won’t meet some difficulties or hardships
C．can’t enjoy them
D．can’t learn something
小題3:If you want to learn something about people of the past, you can _______.
A．join the team to Hawaii
B．join the team to the Far North
C．join the team to Washington
D．join the team to Greece
小題4:Which of the following is false?
A．Some people find sightseeing trips boring.
B．Earth watch is planning all these special adventures.
C．The number of orcas is decreasing.
D．3 volcano explosions in all broke out 3, 500 years ago in Greece.

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:D

試題分析：本文介紹了一種新型的旅游項(xiàng)目—探險(xiǎn)游。在這種旅游里，你可以學(xué)到很多的知識(shí)。
小題1:D 推理題。根據(jù)第一段最后一句Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai Mahan or the Louver.說明the Tai Mahan是和盧浮宮一樣的名勝，故D項(xiàng)正確。
小題2:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段1,2行Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They don’t want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure--a surprising and exciting trip.說明參加Adventure Vacation的人也許不能看到很多的風(fēng)景，故A正確。
小題3:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第8行Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the place for your adventure.說明如果你想?yún)⒂^古老的地方，那么去希臘。故D正確。
小題4:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint Helens說明在希臘只有一座火山爆發(fā)，故D項(xiàng)正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文的話題屬于考生較為熟悉的旅游，文章的切入沒有困難。從題型來說屬于廣告布告類短文，對(duì)于廣告類短文，你可以先看題目和選項(xiàng)，再去仔細(xì)閱讀短文，這樣就顯得有的放矢更有目的性，可以大大提高閱讀的速度和效率。
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