There are many special hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel. And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel.
Thousands of years ago, the area around 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.
In the early 1990s, 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 tables, the chairs and the beds.
The sun heats the walls and roof during the day. So the rooms stay warm at night, though it’s cold outside in the desert. The hotel has twelve rooms. A single room costs $40 a night, and a double room $60.
A sign on the hotel’s wall tells guests, “Please don’t lick (舔) the walls.”
小題1:Where did the salt for the hotel come from?
A.A cave.B.The lake.C.The salt desert.D.A salt field.
小題2:What keeps the rooms in the Salt Palace Hotel warm at night?
A.The water in the lake.B.The sand in the desert.
C.The furniture in the rooms.D.The heat from the walls and roof.
小題3:What is the passage mainly about?
A.A large lake.B.A special hotel.C.A beautiful wall.D.A famous desert.

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B

試題分析:本文主要介紹的是世界上一座很特殊的賓館,是用鹽做成的。
小題1:C 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第5行He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it.可知是用The salt desert建的,故C正確。
小題2:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段1,2行The sun heats the walls and roof during the day. So the rooms stay warm at night, though it’s cold outside in the desert.可知D正確。
小題3:B 主旨大意題。本文主要介紹的是世界上一座很特殊的賓館,是用鹽做成的。故B符合。
點評:本文細節(jié)題居多,答題時在文章找到對應的地方,用筆進行標記,這有利于后期有時間檢查時可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細理解作者所講的意思,再結(jié)合選項,通過排除法和自己對全文的把握,選出正確答案。
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