Question

A couple (夫妇) have travelled around the world in 297 days—without taking any planes Tom Fewins and Lara Lockwood used 78 buses, 61 trains, 34 cars, 18 boats, six bicycles, and even one elephant. They wanted to prove that tourists can still be well travelled without damaging the environment. They aimed to product less than 3,000 kg of carbon dioxide(二氧化碳)， compared with six times that amount if they had gone by plane.

They spent ten months travelling44，609 miles through l 8 countries on land and sea．The couple’s world tour began in June 2008 with a two-hour bus journey to London from their home in Oxfordshire．They took the train，Eurostar，to Brussels and then caught a bus and train to Hamburg before going to Copenhagen．The couple even rode on an elephant for l 5 miles through the Chinese part of the Mekong River(湄公河)．

The couple hoped to write a book based on their journey to teach other travellers how to travel

without damaging the environment．

1.How long did it take the couple to travel around the world?

2.Where did the tour begin?

3.How many ways of transportation did the couple use to travel around the world according to the passage?

4.How was the travel different?

5.What did the couple hope to do?

Answer 1