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

1.297days

2.Their hometown in Oxfordshire

3.Six/6

4.They didn’t take any plane and travelled without damaging the environment.

5.They hoped to write a book based on their journey to teach other travellers how to travel without damaging the environment.

【解析】本文主要讲述一对夫妇汤姆和劳拉低碳环游世界的故事。他们不坐飞机，他们坐公共汽车，火车，小汽车，船，自行车和大象等交通工具。他们花费10个月到达18各国家，走了44，609英里。他们希望把自己的旅游经历写成一本书，告诉其他的游客怎样不损坏环境情况下旅游。

1.题意：这对夫妇周游世界花了多长时间？根据第一句A couple (夫妇) have travelled around the world in 297 days（一对夫妇在297天的时间里完成了周游世界的旅行。）可知答案是297days。

2.题意：旅游从哪里开始的？根据第二段第二句The couple’s world tour began in June 2008 with a two-hour bus journey to London from their home in Oxfordshire．可知此次旅行从他们的家乡Oxfordshire开始的。故答案是Their hometown in Oxfordshire 。

3.题意：根据这段文章，这对夫妇用了多少种交通工具环游世界？ 根据第一段第一句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.

4.题意：这次旅行有什么不同？根据第一段第一二句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.可知答案是They didn’t take any plane and travelled without damaging the environment.

5.题意：这对夫妇希望做什么？根据文中最后一句The couple hoped to write a book based on their journey to teach other travellers how to travel without damaging the environment．可知答案是They hoped to write a book based on their journey to teach other travellers how to travel without damaging the environment.

点睛：任务型阅读分值较高，一般一个小题2分。如何通过解题方法的掌握来提升自己解答任务型理阅读的技巧是学生最关心的问题。任务型阅读一般考查学生的细节理解能力，主旨理解能力和推理判断能力。做任务型阅读题，首先要准确理解题意，然后根据短文内容做出正确的回答。（1）考查细节理解能力，此类题型较简单，准确理解题意后，直接到文中找出答案。例如，第1题，第2题和第5题。（2）推理判断能力。推理判断试题要求考生尽量考虑文中全部信息或事实，在通篇理解文章的基础上领会作者的言外之意，并作出正确的推理和判断。例如，第3题考查数据推断题，根据文中Tom Fewins and Lara Lockwood used 78 buses, 61 trains, 34 cars, 18 boats, six bicycles, and even one elephant.可知使用了六种交通工具。第4题，考查知识推断题 ，根据文章中所阐述的细节（根据第一段第一二句），运用基础知识进行分析、推敲，可知答案是They didn’t take any plane and travelled without damaging the environment.