Americans like to travel all their yearly holiday. Today，more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small houses or inns instead of hotels. They get a room for the night and the breakfast the next morning.
Rooms for the night in private homes with breakfast have been popular with travelers in Europe for many years. In the past five to ten years，these bedbreakfast places have become popular in the United States.Many of these America's bedandbreakfast inns are old historic buildings.Some bedbreakfast inns have only a few rooms；others are much larger.Some inns do not provide telephones or televisions in the rooms；others do.
Staving at a bedandbreakfast inn is much different from staying at a hotel.Usually the cost is much less.Staying at an inn is almost like visiting someone's home.The owners are glad to tell about the areas and the interesting places to visit.Many vacationers say that they enjoy the chance to meet local families.
1.Americans like to take a holiday trip ________.
A．all the year round B．for years
C．every year D．every other year
2.According to the passage，which of the following is NOT true?
A．Some Americans like to stay at bedandbreakfast homes instead of at hotels.
B．The bedandbreakfast inns are private homes opened to vacationers.
C．The bedandbreakfast inns have been popular in America for a long time.
D．The bedandbreakfast inn owners provide a morning meal for their visitors and a room for the night.
3.Why do American travelers prefer staying at bedandbreakfast inns?
A．It is like visiting someone's home.
B．The money they spend there is much less.
C．They can meet local families.
D．All of the above.
4.Staying at the bedandbreakfast inns，________.
A．the travelers needn't pay anything
B．the travelers don't have to pay for the telephone or television
C．the travelers can meet and talk with the local people
D．the owners will show the travelers around the area
Urban citizens(市民)can enjoy a more colorful life than rural citizens.Townspeople are wellinformed because they have the easier access to news，while country people are uniformed because these districts are hard to get to.Urban traffic is so welldeveloped that the residents there often visit exhibitions and parks which are only a short bus ride away. For country people this is a major operation which involves considerable planning.Shopping，a necessary activity in everyday life is more convenient in the city than in the countryside. Townspeople can buy what they want at any time of a day.But rural residents go to town at most once a week.So after shopping they always stagger home loaded with heavy purchases. As for as meals and clothes concerned，townspeople are wellfed and welldressed as there is an adequate(足够的)supply of goods.But rural residents are too busy to pay particular attention to them.It is for these reasons that more and more people are moving into the city and looking for a rest there.
On the contrary，some people are attracted by the rural area.Air pollution，noise and overcrowding which are the biggest problems confronting townspeople seem strange for rural residents.Medical studies have proved that rural residents can live longer than urban residents, because they are free from a polluted environment. In addition，the crime rate in the city is several times higher than in the countryside.As is known to all，the life in any city is much more expensive than in the countryside.So the safe, quiet and cheap life in the country appeals to(对……有吸引力)many city residents.
Either an urban or a rural area gives pleasure and trouble.But，I believe，the suburban area has the excellencies(优点)of both and is superior to both.As the automobile industry develops，more and more people will make their homes in suburban areas.
1.When visiting an exhibition in town，country people have to ________.
A．listen to local news B．take a bus
C．make a careful plan D．ask friends for help
2.Paragraph 1 mainly tells us the differences between urban and rural life in ________.
A．communication，traffic and shopping
B．traffic，shopping and diet
C．education，living conditions and housing
D．traffic，medicine and shopping
3.According to the passage，rural people are not as welldressed as urban citizens mainly because________.
A．they live far away from town
B．they live a poorer life
C．they are busy with their work
D．they don't like to dress up
4. For rural residents，the problems the urban citizens facing are________.
A．common B．unfamiliar
C. wellknown D．unimportant
I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy wife and business woman. When Mum ____ in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year while I was working for a wedding, a pearl necklace Mum had left me ____. I was distraught(忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was ____ that a guy who was working with us that day “could probably have made a fortune ___ the necklace he found.” ____， he returned it. Hearing how I'd ____Mum for six months before her death, he said，” Christmas is going to be ___ —why not go out to the Alps for a couple of weeks？”
I come to Morzaine，a small，friendly village in the Alps and ____ fell in love with it. What was ____ to be a stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new life. I kept travelling between London and here and felt ____ than I had in months.In December 2008, I was ____ as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn't want to discuss ____， because the sadness of losing Mum ____ felt great. Paul understood that and never __49__ me but, by summer, we got married. A year later, we used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mom's house, to build our own ____.
We want to give our guests a ____ feeling, so each room is themed(以……为主题) around memories from our lives. There are also style to remind me of Mom —a tiny chair which ___ be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life Mum ____ naturally part of it, ____ there's no way we would be here if it wasn't for the ____ she gave me. I know she's here in spirit, keeping an eye on us.
1.A.died B．came C．returned D．visited
2. A．burned B．disappeared C．broke D．dropped
3.A.shown B．comforted C．persuaded D．told
4.A.hiding B．stealing C．selling D．wearing
5.A.Luckily B．Naturally C．Surely D．Hopefully
6.A.nursed B．cured C．missed D．guarded
7.A.long B．hard C．merry D．free
8.A.suddenly B．finally
C．nearly D．immediately
9.A.said B．proved C．supposed D．judged
10.．A.smarter B．higher C. firmer D．lighter
11.A．honoured B．hired C．regarded D．trained
12.A．travel B．business C．children D．marriage
13.A．recently B．once C．still D．firstly
14.A.left B．pushed C．surprised D．interrupted
15.．A.hotel B．restaurant C．home D．shop
16.A.homely B．lively C．motherly D．friendly
17.．A.ought to B．used to C．might D．could
18.A.takes B．keeps C．looks D．feels
19.A.unless B．while C．because D．though
20.A.money B．chair C．house D．necklace
When I met him the other day，it was the first time we ________ each other since we were at school.
A．saw B．had seen
C．were seeing D．have seen
Almost 50% of those ________ said that they supported the President's decision.
A．survey B．surveying
C．surveyed D．who surveyed
The traditional approach __________ with complex problems is to break them down into smaller，more easily managed problems.
A．to dealing B．in dealing C．dealing D．to deal
