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on this planet it is difficult to decide where to go. By narrowing down your search to voluntary (自愿的) work or a relaxing holiday, you can save a lot of time looking through websites. After deciding where to go, you need to research the country. Find out when each season is. It would be disappointing if you were taking part in an outdoorbased activity and it rained most days. Look into medical information, as you may need certain medicine for certain countries. Above all, make sure you can afford to go to this country and take part in the activities you have dreamt about. Don’t raise your hopes too high before you know for certain it is within your budget. By carrying a credit (信用) card with you at all times it is possible to stop yourself getting lost. Mobile phones are very important as well. However, do not depend pletely on them, since electronic machines can break without warning. Therefore, always carry a list of emergency (緊急情況) phone numbers, names and addresses. Finally, learn a little of the language. Do not expect that the people there speak your own language. After all, you are in their country.61. What is the best title for the passage? A. Take a Relaxing Trip B. Save up to Travel AloneC. Create a Pleasant Trip D. Prepare for Travelling Alone62. From the text, we can know that ________. A. travelling in a foreign country costs a lot B. deciding on where to go is an easy job C. a volunteer can help you choose where to go D. you need to know what the weather of the county you’ll travel is like 63. What does the word “budget” in Paragraph 2 mean?A. 記錄 B. 生意 C. 預(yù)算 D. 決定 64. According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. You needn’t research the country you’ll travel before setting off. B. Making a budget is important when making a travel plan.C. It is funny to take medicines when travelling. D. Bad weather can never influence your trip.65. The last paragraph mainly tells us ________. A. reasons why mobile phones aren’t reliableB. ways to stay safe when travelling aloneC. the importance of carrying a credit cardD. the advantages of learning a foreign languageCA When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find acmodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of acmodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories. “We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.” I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacaciones’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘VACANCIES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCIES’, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels! We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road is blocked by a crowd. English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in French. I meant that I would like some more. However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in French means ‘No, thank you.’66. My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______. A. learning English B. finding places to stay in England C. driving their car on English roads D. going to England by car67. “NO VACANCIES” in English means ______. A. no free rooms B. free rooms C. not away on holiday D. holidays68. If you see a road sign that says ‘Diversion’, you will ______. A. fall into a hole B. have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself C. find that the road is blocked by crowds of people D. have to take a different road69. When someone offered me more coffee and I said ‘Thank you’ in French, I ______. A didn’t really want any more coffee B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away C. really wanted some more coffee D. wanted to express my politeness70. I was surprised when the coffee pot was taken away because I ______. A. hadn’t finished drinking my coffee B. was expecting another cup of coffee C. meant that I didn’t want any more D. was always understoodDAt the time friends visit us in the evening, they often tell us they are in a hurry and look at their watches. It isn39。t that our friends are all very busy。 it is just that we haven39。t got a television. People think that we are very strange. “But what do you do in the evening?”,they are always asking. The answer is very simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don39。t spend our evenings looking at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages. This is quite useful as we often go abroad for our holidays. I collect stamps and I39。m always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to the music and playing chess together.Sometimes there are power(電源) cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us and we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends, however, ar