Visiting London can be an expensive trip, so establishing a budget and finding bargains when you arrive will help you get around London on the cheap. The following steps can help you find cheaper alternatives for transport for your London trip.

l Familiarize yourself with the city’s boroughs and specifically the area where you will be staying. You can use a street map, or an online map search engine, to establish where in the city you will be staying and the distance you are from the major tourist attractions you want to visit.

l Find a local provider of Transport for London tickets or travel cards, since your first bargain purchase will be an Oyster Card. Traveling around London with an Oyster Card will give you access to the cheapest option of transportation methods and the Oyster Card is accepted citywide on buses, boats and the London Underground, known by the locals as “the tube”.

l Seek out your nearest Tube Station. The Tube is the cheapest and most reliable form of transportation and runs from around 6 a.m. until around 1 a.m. ..., depending on the line or the station.

There are 287 tube stations in London that accept the Oyster Card, with a high concentration in central London. If you are staying anywhere in central London, there will be a tube station less than 10 minutes away.

The Transport for London website offers a tube station search facility to find the nearest subway station to any location in the city. When you find a tube station, you can easily locate the closest bus stop by using the comparison bus-tube maps at the station’s entrance.

l Follow the Transport for London Tube Guide to your destinations and always plan ahead. Making a plan for transport will save you unnecessary expenses, wasted trips on the tube and doubling back on your journey .

1.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To introduce the public transport system in London.

B．To show readers how to use the Oyster Card.

C．To prove the subway in London is easy to use.

D．To offer tips for saving transport costs in London.

2.Which of the following can help a traveler spend the least money on transport?

A．Trying different transportation methods.

B．Taking buses as much as possible.

C．Traveling with an Oyster Card.

D．Making a plan before your journey.

3.By visiting the Transport for London website, people can ________.

A．identify their own location                B．locate the nearest bus station

C．find the nearest subway station             D．use an online map to avoid getting lost

4.We can conclude from the passage that ________.

A．the subway is the cheapest means of transport in London.

B．only Tube stations in Central London accept Oyster Card.

C．subway lines in London run no less than 19 hours a day.

D．the transfer from subway to bus is very convenient.

    People can enjoy visiting some major imperial temples where emperors worshipped nature on various sacred days·

    Temple of Moon(Yuetan)-   

Built in 1530，the roughly 8 hectare Temple of Moon，or Yuetan Park，to west of the imperial city was the site of imperial sacrifices to the moon.

In the past decades, bushes and fruit trees have been planted here．In 1969，a 180 meter--all television broadcasting tower was erected in the park，taking up about one eighth of its total space·

    Opening hours：6 am～9 pm

    Location：6 Yuetan Beijie，Xicheng District．Buses to get there：15，19，823．

    Temple of Earth (Ditan)

    The Temple of Earth，or Ditan Park，near the North Second Ring Road，is where emperors prayed to the earth for favorable weather and national prosperity．Built during the Ming Dynasty in 1 530，it is the only existing place to worship the earth．

   The surrounding areas have become an open space for people to engage in leisurely activities．Since the late 1980s，traditional temple fair have been held here regularly during the Chinese lunar new year．

    Opening hours：6 am～9 pm

    Location：A2 Di’anmenwai，Chaoyang District．Buses to get there: 104，108，116，or take the subway to get off at Yonghegong to go north.

    Temple of Sun (Ritan)

    The Temple of Sun，or Ritan Park，in eastern Beijing，is located near the

Jianguomen area and adjacent(邻近的)embassy district．It is a short walk from

the Yong'anli subway station on the Line 1．The altar(祭坛)was built in l--…-30

as a place for emperors to make ritual sacrifices to the sun．

    It features expansive gardens and a small lake．A mural (壁画)wall．The park’s main scenic attraction now，was a piece of artwork created about 20 years ago to draw more sightseer．The park is also known for its blossoming lotuses．

    Opening hours：6 am～9 pm

    Location：6 Ritan Beilu，Chaoyang District．Buses to get there：1，4，28，43，

57．120．

What kind of people is the text mainly written for?

  A．Parents．    B．Students．    C．Tourists．  D．Teachers-

You can take a No．______ bus if you want to visit The Temple of Sun

  A．19          B. 104           C．108       D．120

If you want to worship the earth，you must go to _____.

  A．Yuetan Park  B．Ditan Park    C．Ritan Park  D．Beilu Park

The purpose of building a mural wall in Ritan Park was to    ．

  A．defend the park

  B．prevent people from coming into．the park

  C．attract more sightseers

  D．make ritual sacrifices to the sun

Here are some of the world’s most impressive subways

1.Which one can provide the riders some wonderful decorations at the stations?

2.________ is done with the purpose of making money．             

3.We can learn from the passage that Shanghai Metro____________．

4.What do we know about the Hong Kong MTR?

I credit my typing skill to so many hours of chatting online. Unfortunately, as my typing speed increased on the Internet, all grammatical rules went out of the window. You see instant messages have their own shorthand language and grammar isn’t important, of which even a newbie (新手) is aware. They can leave out articles, subjects (主语), pronouns, etc. They can misspell or “respell” almost any word. They often ask “A/S/L” when they first chat. Abbreviations (缩写) and capitalizations (大写) are particularly important. English-speaking instant messengers also refuse to burden themselves with punctuation and capitalization.
After I came back China, I discovered not one but two instant messaging crazes. The first, which brought back memories of my previous addiction to the computer, was QQ. I can see evidence that the Chinese have the same kind of separate instant messaging language, even when they chat in English. My first word in this language, for example, was “ft”. This abbreviation for “faint” is used whenever there is a need to express surprise. I also discovered that Chinese use the same kind of abbreviation for a laugh. And there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the “vomit” and “army soldier” smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
After QQ, there is another, perhaps more widespread messaging trend. You guessed it --- cell phone text messaging. I now understand how useful text messaging is and why it is so common. I admit that I have been guilty of sending text messages while walking outside or sitting on the subway. Who hasn’t ? No matter where I go, I see people on their cell phones, messaging. In fact, it’s rare to see someone actually talking on their phone!
So it looks as if there is no escape from the instant messaging crazes, no matter where in the world I go. And that’s plainly not going to change. In the end, though, I can’t complain: instant messaging is quick, it’s cheap, it’s easy and it’s extremely fun too. And after all, everyone’s doing it.
【小题1】The underlined phrase “went out of the window” in Paragraph 1 probably means        .

Subways