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　　When you are in Nanoko, be sure to stay at the Garden Hotel. Whether you come on business or on holiday you will find everything as comfortable and as convenient as you would expect in a first-class international hotel.

　　Every bedroom has its own bathroom, telephone, and colorful modern materials and furniture in the local style.

　　In the Mistu Restaurant, you can choose your meals from a lot of dishes, both Eastern and European, as you will find anywhere in the country. In the Beach Bar, you can drink, with your family and friends in air-conditioned comfort, listen to the music of internationally-known artists. Or you can take your drink outside into the beautiful garden that gives the hotel its name, or to the tables that surround the swimming pool. Throughout the hotel, you will find the service is both friendly and efficient.

　　By day the pool is alive with the holiday spirit and the happy shouting of children and by night, soft lights and music make it a perfect place for a party, or simply for an after-dinner drink and conversation.

　　The Garden Hotel has its own minibus service. Give us a ring and we will arrange to collect you at the airport or in the city center. Every day a bus leaves the hotel for day trips up into the hills to see the city or the villages and temples of the hill people, or along the seashore to the seaside towns.

　　It you prefer, we can arrange for you to visit the Wainiri Islands that lie just off the coast. Here you can swim in peace; or you can fish there. As it is wellknown, Wainiri is really a good place for people going fishing. The Garden Hotel is right on the beach, only five minutes from Nanoko's modern shopping centre. Here you will find all that money can buy, at prices you can afford.

1．Every bedroom at the Garden Hotel ________.

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A．has a bathroom

B．has a colorful telephone in the local style

C．is colourful and modern with local style

D．is in an international style, comfortable and convenient

2．The pool is just right for ________.

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A．an after-dinner children's party

B．happy shouting and the sound of holiday music

C．drinking soft drinks, or spirits, by day and night

D．fun and games by day and drinking and conversation by night

3．The hotel can arrange for the visitors to ________.

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A．go fishing off Cape St. Cermain near Wainiri

B．go across to the Wainiri Islands to swim or fish

C．see amounts of sea life off the coast of Wainiri

D．go by bus to the Wainiri Islands, for peace and quiet

4．You will find the Garden Hotel ________.

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A．on the beach not far from Nanoko's excellent shops

B．on the beach where you will find all that money can buy

C．close to shops where everything is cheap and justly famous

D．just off the coast, five minutes from the shops

Almost everyone has read about the Taj Mahal in Idaia. It is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. It is said that the Taj Mahal, like the Great Wall in China, is one of the seven wonders in the world. Over three hundred years ago, Shah Jehan built Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife.

Shah Jehan wanted his wife’s tomb to be perfect. He did not care about time or money. He brought together workmen from all Asia. Altogether, over 20 000 men worked on the building, and it took them over seventeen years to finish it.

The building rests on a platform of red sandstone. Four thin white towers rise from the corners of the terrace（平台）, a large dome（圆屋顶）rises from the center of the buildings. Around this large dome there are four smaller domes.

The building is made of fine white marbles. It has eight sides. There is an open corridor just inside the walls. From the corridor, the visitor looks through marble screen to a center room. The bodies of Shah Jehan and his wife lie in a tomb below this room.

A beautiful garden surrounds the Taj Mahal. The green trees make the marble look even whiter. In front of the main entrance to the building there is a long narrow pool. If you look in this pool, you can see all the beautiful look of the Taj Mahal in the reflection from the water.

Some people think the Taj Mahal is most beautiful at sunset. Then the marble picks up the color of sunset, and the building and its reflection in the pool shines like jewels. Others like it best at noon when the bright sun makes it clear and clean.

Still others think it should be seen by moonlight. On nights when the moon is full, hundreds of people visit the Taj Mahal and spend the night beside the pool. When morning comes and the Taj Mahal turns from silver to gold in the early sunrise, they go away to return, perhaps, when the moon is full again.

（　　 ）1. Shah Jehan built the Taj Mahal 　　　　 .

A. for people to visit　　 　 B. for pleasure　　

C. to show off his treasure D. to place the bodies of his wife and himself

（　　 ）. 2The Tai Mahal in India is almost as 　　　 as the Great Wall in China.

A. well-known　 B. long　　　　　 C. large　　　　 D. perfect

（　　 ）3. How many domes are there on the building?

A. One.　　　　　　　　 B. Four.　　　　 C. Five.　　　　 D. Eight.

（　　 ）4. The pool and the garden make the building 　　　 .

A. colorful　 B. even more beautiful　 C. long and narrow　　　 D. clear and clean

（　　 ）5. The underlined word “reflection” probably means 　　　 .

A. surface　　　 B. bottom　　　　 C. beauty　　　　　 D. image