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 and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake which is 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 (糊) 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: Taking a pulley(滑轮)-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(罩篷). 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 few steps of the loft(阁楼) 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 $ 450 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 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.How are the hotels similar?

A. Expensive. B. Comfortable.

C. Natural. D. Unique.

3.What do the underlined words “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 gives you 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.

I went shopping for a dress to wear to my daughter’s high school graduation half a year ago. To my horror, I could only fit into a size 20.

Being overweight most of my adult life, I always had very little self-confidence. Wearing a dress I didn’t like to such an important event was enough to make me look for help. Thankfully, a friend of mine was attending Weight Watchers meetings, and I noticed her great progress. Her success inspired me to give it a try. I joined Weight Watchers, attended their meetings and started following their Weight-Loss System.

I focused on the plan with determination and never missed a weekly meeting! I discovered that I enjoyed the benefits of having the help and support of others. I also read the weekly online e-newsletter and was inspired by the stories, recipes and information offered there, I also read magazines produced by Weight Watchers, which have great tips and new ideas in each issue.

It’s hard for me to even remember the person I was before my amazing change. I didn’t walk anywhere and couldn’t wash my car or walk my dog. Today I do these simple tasks without even thinking about them. But the change didn’t happen overnight. I had to exercise with patience and perseverance(坚持). I decided to take it one day at a time and stick with if for good.

The “new me” is more self-confident and healthier. I love how I feel now. I have more energy and feel like I’m 25 again. So why not give Weight Watchers a try if you have the same overweight problem?

1.The underlined word “inspired” in the second paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A. excited B. moved C. encouraged D. forced

2.We can learn from the passage that the writer ______.

A. often went shopping before she lost weight

B. was overweight when she was a child

C. ever wanted to give up losing weight

D. now is more confident than before

3.This passage is written to ________.

A. tell us how to gain self-confidence

B. show off the great progress that the author has made

C. give us some tips on how to lose weight quickly

D. advise overweight people to give Weight Watchers a try

4.Which of the following word will you use to describe the writer?

A. Weak. B. Calm. C. Patient. D. Silent.

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阅读下列短文, 从每篇短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

No one likes the “old people” smell. No one, not even the ________ people. Trust me, I know.

I volunteer at a hospice of Alzheimer’s Care(老年痴呆患者临终安养院). My health book ________ a pretty picture of hospices, describing them as homes where family members and the sick can work together in ________ incurable illness. It shows pictures of ________ patients speaking to doctors, with, of course, loving ones around them.

That’s ________ what a hospice is. There aren’t family members, only cards sent periodically during the year. The ________ I help seldom smile because they’re struggling to________ where they are, what year it is, ________ their own names.

And they don’t like the “old people” smell—the smell of disease, of medicine and sweat, or of the lost self-respect. They don’t like it. But they ________ in it.

Next week is my ________ . I’m moving soon and I won’t have to________ that hospice. I won’t have to ________ a woman who can’t even close her mouth, or ________ a man who’s crying because he can’t stop shaking ________ enough to tie his shoes. I won’t have to run for a nurse when Evelyn falls out of her wheel-chair.

But I feel far from ________ . After four years of volunteering, the place is the same as the day I started. All the ________ remains fresh, never to be cut through by youthful spirits.

Some visit. Some bring cake and puppy dogs and flowers. But only ________ . When you were born, loving arms held you. Shouldn’t you ________ that way too? Shouldn’t the elderly, who’ve lived their lives, raised their ________ and contributed to society be cared about? Shouldn’t they end feeling loved? Why don’t ________ ?

1.A. oldB. youngC. poorD. sick

2.A. paintsB. writesC. publishesD. reads

3.A. curingB. examiningC. testingD. accepting

4.A. cryingB. sufferingC. fightingD. smiling

5.A. certainlyB. maybeC. notD. hardly

6.A. hospitalsB. patientsC. doctorsD. nurses

7.A. sayB. recognizeC. rememberD. forget

8.A. everB. evenC. onlyD. however

9.A. playB. liveC. talkD. work

10.A. dutyB. turnC. firstD. last

11.A. feelB. seeC. smellD. taste

12.A. feedB. openC. stopD. keep

13.A. blameB. cureC. calmD. find

14.A. fastB. frequentlyC. shortlyD. long

15.A. light-heartedB. absent-mindedC. badD. sad

16.A. hopefulnessB. hopelessnessC. carelessnessD. desire

17.A. someB. fewC. meD. them

18.A. actB. liveC. dieD. speak

19.A. plantsB. childrenC. foodD. money

20.A. IB. weC. theyD. you

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