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5. 3. Where can you top up your Visitor Oyster card? A. At Gatwick Express ticket offices. B. At a tube station ticket office. C. On the Inter. D. On Eurostar trains. B People are always looking for lost cities and occasionally one is found: Borobudur in Indonesia, for example. But perhaps some of the places people look for never existed— or did they? Here are just a few famous mythical(傳說中的) cities. El Dorado. El Dorado is a story that began in 1537, when Spanish explorers found the Muisca people in the mountains of what is now Colombia. They heard the story of a man who covered himself with gold and dived into a lake. Then people began to talk of El Dorado –‘ the golden man’ Soon people started to think of El Dorado a s a place, too 一 a city of gold and amazing riches. Nowadays, the name ’El Dorado’ is still used to mean‘ a place where you can get rich quickly.’ Atlantis There was once an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It was the mythical island of Atlantis. The people of the island were very rich, thanks to the natural resources(資源) on their island. For hundreds of years, they lived simple lives. But slowly they began to change. They started to want power. So the gods decided to destroy Atlantis. Suddenly, the island and its people were swallowed(淹沒) by the sea and were never seen again. Shambhala In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala is a mystical (神秘的 )country that is hidden somewhere behind the Himalayas. Shambhala is a word from an old language that means‘ place of peace’ or‘ place of happiness’. It is said that there is no war in Shambhala, and in the future , when the world is full of war, a huge army will e out of Shambhala, destroy the world’s bad rulers, and start a new Golden Age. Some people say this will hap pen in 2424. 4. Nowadays,‘ El Dorado’ means‘ ______’ A. Colombia. B. the golden man. C. a place of great wealth. D. the city with mountains.[來源 :學 * 科 * 網(wǎng) ] 5. Atlantis was destroyed by_____ A. the gods. B. its people. C. its powerful enemies. D. its neighboring country. 6. What will probably happen in 2424 according to the last paragraph? A. The Himalayas will disappear. B. The world will be full of peace. C. Shambhala will save the world. D. There will be a war in Shambhala. 7. What would be the best title for the text? A. Rich lands . B. Mythical cities C. Famous tourist attractions. D. Newlyfound ancient countries. C Psychologists have discovered that even the most independentminded of us will conform to social pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classie experiment, people were shown a vertical line and asked to find a line of identical length from a selection of three. You might think that this is an absurdly easy task, and when people perform it by themselves they do it very well. However, psychologists have discovered that we are very easily swayed by the opinions of other people when we do this task in a group. In one study, a group of three people was set up,where two of the people were confederates(同伙 )of the the confederates deliberately gave wrong answers,people were often swayed to give the wrong answer also. In fact, 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer, with some people conforming to peer pressure on every occasion. But why do people conform in this way? In an easy task like this, it seems that people do not want to step out of line with the prevailing opinion of the group. On more difficult tasks, people al