题目内容
Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs.
AVOID BIG EVENTS Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the cost of accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival (19 Oct.) cost ￡169.15 at Booking.com. A week later, the same room cost ￡118.15.
If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoid—or you're looking for a big event to pass your time—check out sites such as Whatsonwhen.com, which allow you to search for events in the UK by city, date and category.
STAY AWAY FROM THE STATION If traveling to your destination by train, you may want to find a good base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.
Don't be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge's Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was ￡95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was ￡75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just ￡62.95.
LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really central hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a self－catering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example is the historic O'Neill Flat on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, available for ￡420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults.
GET ON A BIKE London's “Boris bikes” have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your own pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs.
Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around ￡1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or ￡5 per day)．
1.The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events may ________．
A. help travelers pass time
B. attract lots of travelers to the UK
C. allow travelers to make flexible plans
D. cause travelers to pay more for accommodation
2.“Farringdon” in Paragraph 5 is most probably ________．
A. a hotel away from the train station
B. the tube line to Covent Garden
C. an ideal holiday destination
D. the name of a travel agency
3.The passage shows that the O'Neill Flat ________．
A. lies on the ground floor
B. is located in central London
C. provides cooking facilities for tourists
D. costs over ￡100 on average per day in late September
4.Cardiff's program allows a free bike for a maximum period of ________．
A. half an hour B. one hour
C. one hour and a half D. two hours
1.D
2.A
3.C
4.A
【解析】
解题分析：到英国旅游如何才能减少旅行花费呢？本文介绍了一些省钱的建议。
1.】细节理解题。根据Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the cost of accommodation and make it harder to find a room. 尽量避免在大的赛事举行的时间去英国旅游，文章提到同样的一间房在节日期间和不在这个节日期间的价格不同，因此这里是说明在盛大节日时旅行者付出的房费要高一些。选D。
2.】推理判断题。此段的标题就是讲住宿要远离车站，而作者列举Farringdon的双人间价格非常便宜，因此可以推断Farringdon是一个离车站比较远的宾馆。选A。
3.】细节理解题。 根据此段的“…checking into a self－catering flat with its own kitchen.” 可知，它是一个为游客提供做饭设备的宾馆。选C。
4.】细节理解题。 根据文章最后一句中的“…Cardiff free for up to 30 minutes…”可知，Cardiff能提供最多30分钟的自行车免费租用时间。选A。
考点：旅游类文章
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It’s necessary to use different ways to communicate for different purposes. Study, made by Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in New York, has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in e-mails.
Hancock made an investigation by asking 30 students to keep a communication diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or e-mail exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14% of e-mails, 21% of instant messages, 27% of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37% of phone calls.
His results, to be presented at the conferences on human computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists.
Hancock says it is very important and effective whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know that they will be responsible for what they have said in the conversation. This is why fewer lies appear in e-mail than on the phone.
People are even more likely to lie in real time—in an instant message or phone call. Many lies are sudden or immediate responses to demands that they don’t expect.”
Hancock hopes his research will help many a company work out the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium for selling their products where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But given his results, work assessment, where honesty is regarded as more important than others, might be best done using e-mail.
Hancock’s study on people 1. in different ways of communications | |
2. drawn from the statistics | Lies 3. when the communicating ways change from e-mails to instant messages, to face-to-face interactions and to phone calls. |
Reasons why people lie or don’t | ●People won’t lie when their 4. are recorded and reread, or when they know they should take the 5. for what they have said. ●People lie in real time mostly because they have to answer 6. questions without hesitation. |
Benefits that 7. can have from the study | ●Using telephones for 8. because their employees can stretch the truth. ●Using e-mails for work assessment because their employees must say what they have done 9. . |
Inference from the study | Suitable media should be chosen for different 10. purposes. |