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Tayka Hotel De Sal

Where: Tahua, Bolivia

How much: About $95 a night

Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim．Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses (床垫) and blankets)．The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat．Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries．When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: About $240 a night

Why it’s cool: Ridding a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure．As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy．Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read．You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn “elevator”.

Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $92 a night

Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet．Sweet Willyis a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly．Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side．You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a ffew steps of the loft(阁楼）in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose．Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant (消防栓）outside.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: Ayvali, Turkey

How much: Between $130 and $475 a night.

Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash．But your stay will be much more modern．Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer．(Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)

1.What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?

A．It is located on a prehistoric lake.

B．It should be protected against the rain.

C．Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

D．You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.

2.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A．Being expensive.    B．Being comfortable.  C．Being natural.      D．Being unique.

3.What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

A．The name of the hotel.                   

B．The name of the hotel owner.

C．The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.  

D．The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

4.Which of the hotels makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?

A．Tayka Hotel De Sal                       B．Green Magic Nature Resort

C．Dog Bark Park Inn B&B                   D．Gamirasu Cave Hotel

5.What may be the purpose of the writer writing the passage?

A．To show his wide knowledge.              B．To introduce some interesting hotels.

C．To develop business in tourism.             D．To attract attention from the readers.

Answer

1.A

2.D

3.C

4.D

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：文章很有意思的介绍了四种有趣的旅馆，一个是由盐所建成的宾馆、一个是通过滑轮才能上去的树顶上的酒店、一个是住在一个有30英尺高的狗的肚子里、一个是山洞里的旅馆，每一个都很独特。

1.细节题。从第一段The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat．中可得知Tayka Hotel de Sal 坐落于一座史前的盐湖上。故选A

2.细节题。四个旅馆都有自己的特色，都与众不同。一个是由盐所建成的宾馆、一个是通过滑轮才能上去的树顶上的酒店、一个是住在一个有30英尺高的狗的肚子里、一个是山洞里的旅馆，所以每一个都很独特，故选D

3.推断题。从倒数第2个酒店可知，Sweet Willy是一只有着30英尺高的狗。故Sweet Willy指的是The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B .故选C

4.细节题。本题不难，从Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash．But your stay will be much more modern．可知你将会有一种居住在5000年以前的感觉。故选D

5.推断题。文章介绍了四种酒店，而且这四种每个都有自己的特色，所以作者写作的目的是介绍一些有趣的旅馆。故选B

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