题目内容
I_________ a lot of time listening to music before，but now I prefer_________ books．
A. spend；to read B. spent；to read
C. spend；reading D. spent；watching
B 【解析】 句意：我以前花费很多时间听音乐，但是现在我更喜欢读书。spend花费，动词原形，常用于句型spend time doing sth.花费时间做某事；spent是过去式形式；to read动词不定式；reading动名词；watching观看。第一句话中before表示以前的事情，应用过去时态，spend变成过去式spent，排除A和C；第二个空前的prefer是“更喜欢”...
Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。
Time | Kind of holiday | Reason |
Before the late 1970s | 1. | It was a tradition. |
In the late 1970s | Package holiday | 2. |
3. | Overseas holiday | Young people became wealthier. |
These years | 4. | The world financial crisis. |