The Hotel Portixol,a hotel that oozes (充满) style and has thoughtful ex?tras in Palma,Majorca.

  . Location 

  In the bay of PortixoU a 30-minute walk or 10-minute cycle east of the old town,overlooking Portixol port.

  . Character 

  The square white building,with its blue shutters (百叶窗) and dark wooden balconies,stands out as you approach Portixol. Inside as well as out,Hotel Portixol oozes style―wicker (柳条) sofas in a shade deck. Thoughtful extras in?clude free bicycle hire and telescopes in each room.

  . Rooms

  Thirteen of the 26 rooms have balconies,overlooking the sea. All have large showers and kingsize beds. Our corner room had double glass doors on two sides which created a muchneeded breeze.

  . Food

  Breakfast is a feast,with a huge selection of fresh fruit,yogurts,cereals,meat,cheese and bread. The lunch and dinner menus mix traditional Mediterranean food with Eastern and European classics.

  . Why Palma?

  Parts of Majorca have a certain reputation,but calm,sweet Palma is a far shout from the island's busy and sometimes tacky beach resorts so popular with hen and buck parties.

  The Majorcan capital is also one of the easiest shortbreak destinations in Europe. The old town is a 10-minute taxi ride from Palma airport,while the tangled (混乱的) streets inside the old city wall combine the best restaurants,shopping and culture Majorca has to offer.

  While very hot in summer,temperatures remain pleasant during the rest of the year.

  . Getting there  

  Easyjet flies to Palma from most airports in the UK,about £29. 99 one way. A taxi from Palma airport to the city centre costs about £8;or you can catch a bus which costs a few euros.

5. If you'd like to buy what you like,you had better go to         .

   A. the old city of Majorca

   B. Palma beach resorts

   C. the city centre of Majorca

   D. the east of the old town

6. How much will be spent if a family of three goes to the city centre of Palma for a round trip?

   A. Over £114.

   B. Less than £228.

   C. More than £l80.

   D. Only £76.

7. The passage is mainly written to those who         .

   A. want to travel to Majorcan capital

   B. enjoy travelling out freely

   C. will stay in a hotel in Palma

   D. like to go shopping in the city centre of Majorca

8. What's the best title of this passage?

   A. Hotel Portixol,Palma,Majorca

   B. City Portixol,Palma,Majorca

   C. The transport in Majorca

   D. The view in Palma

  Since the beginning of time,man has been interested in the moon. The Romans designed a special day to show admiration and respect to the moon. They called it "Moonday" or "Monday", as we know it today. Later,the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci studied the moon and designed a machine to carry a human to the moon. Leonardo said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great honour to the home where it was born.

  Four and a half centuries later,Leonardo's idea was realized. Apollo H took three Americans Collins,Aldrin,and Armstrong to the moon. The mis?sion did fill the whole world with great surprise,as Leonardo had said it would.

Numerous essays,articles,and books were written about man's first moon mission. But perhaps the most interesting story was one written before the event over 100 years before.

  In 1865,French author Jules Verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon. His story was very similar to the 1969 Apollo H mission.

  Verne's spacecraft also contained three men―two Americans and a Frenchman. The spacecraft was described as being almost the same size as Apollo U . The launch site in Verne's story was also in Florida. The space?craft in Verne's story was named the "Columbiad". The Apollo H command ship was called "Columbia". His description of sending the spacecraft into space could easily have been written about how Apollo K was sent into space.

  Verne's story was the same as the actual event in several other respects. The speed of Verne's spacecraft was 36       ,000 feet per second;Apollo II 's was 35,533 feet per second. Verne's spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon; Apollo II,s        time was 103 hours. Like Apollo H 's spacemen,Verne's space?men took pictures of the moon's surface,relaxed on their seats,cooked with gas,and experienced weightlessness. They too came down in the Pacific and were picked up by an American warship.

  What were the reasons for Jules Verne's extreme accuracy (精确) in de?scribing an event 100 years or more before it actually occurred? He based his writings on the laws of physics and astronomy. Nineteenthcentury science and the vivid Verne's imagination gave people an unbelievably accurate prediction of one of the greatest events of the 20th century.

1. Jules Verne wrote his story of a man's visit to the moon about       .

   A. 100 years before the Apollo H mission

   B. 10 years before the Apollo H mission

   C. four and one half centuries ago

   D. 100 years ago

2. Verne's story about the first journey to the moon is very similar to       .

   A. the second US space mission

   B. the Apollo II mission

   C. Leonardo da Vinci's story

   D. numerous other books on the same subject

3. The passage suggests that Jules Verne       .

   A. developed the laws of physics

   B. based his writings on the works of Leonardo da Vinci

   C. was very lucky in what he had described about the future

   D. knew a great deal about the laws of physics and astronomy

4. The passage mainly describes       .

   A. the rapid progress of mankind

   B. Verne's accurate prediction of the future

   C. the 1969 Apollo K moon mission

   D. the 19 th century science and technology

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