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When you are travelling, whether on business or for pleasure, you often need to stay in a hotel. The kind of hotel you choose probably is decided above all according to how much money you want to spend. There are small hotels with very few services, where the prices are low, or there are large hotels with all the very latest comforts, where you could spend all the money you have in the bank for one very comfortable night.
There are several different kinds of people who go to hotels. Some want to live, rather than just stay, in a hotel; the hotels which are designed to meet their needs are called residential hotels. However, most people who stay in hotels are either business people or tourists on holiday.
In most hotels, there are two kinds of rooms: single rooms, for the use of one person, and double rooms, for the use of two people. In addition, in large hotels, there are also suites(套房), which include two or more rooms connected together—perhaps a bed-room and a living room. They are for people who are very rich or very important.
1. One’s choice of a particular hotel is made mainly according to _______.
A. how much one is willing to pay for a night
B. whether one is travelling on business or for pleasure
C. whether the hotel is in the central part of a city
D. how good the services of the hotel are
2. If the president of a certain country comes, he will _______.
A. live in a new hotel with a suite B. stay in a single room of a hotel
C. stay in a double room of a hotel D. stay in a suite of a modern hotel
3. If a person stays in a modern hotel with latest comforts for a night, _______.
A. he will become poor
B. he has to pay a lot of money
C. he has to spend all the money he has in the bank
D. he has to pay some money
4. The title of the article is probably _______.
A. Rooms of a Hotel B. Cost of a Hotel
C. Hotels D. People staying in Hotels
【答案与解析】我们出行时少不了要住宾馆，在选择房间时，我们不仅仅只考虑经济实惠，还要考虑宾馆的服务态度和个人实情等。
1. A。细节题。从第 1 段第 2 句 The kind of hotel you choose probably is decided above all according to how much money you want to spend 可知答案为 A。
2. D。判断题。第3段中讲 there are also suites…for people who are very rich or very important，而总统自然是很重要的人物，故选 D。
3. B。判断题。从第 1 段最后一句话中的 …or there are large hotels with all the very latest comforts, where you could spend all the money you have in the bank for one very comfortable night可以做出正确判断。
4. D。主旨题。综合文章内容可知，答案应该是 D。
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218 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 28774
May 7th, 2002
Social Security Administration
2119 Main Street
Philadelphia, PA 28000
Dear Social Security,
I am applying for a new Social Security Card.
I lost my old one last week, I was walking home from the subway station, and I pulled a tissue(纸巾)out of my pocket and lost my wallet at the same time. My card was in my wallet.
Please send me a new card. If you can get the card to me within two weeks, please sent it to the address at the top of the page. If it will take longer than this, then you will have to send it to my new address. I am moving on May 23rd to 103 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 28445
If you can send my new card within two weeks, I would be very pleased. I am applying for a new job at Ventura Savings Bank, and I know they will want to have my Social Security Number. Unfortunately I have forgotten it, so I will need my card to find out. On my old card I was called Victoria Matthews. Since then I have gotten married. Please issue my new card in my married name: Victoria Villata. In case you need more information about me to hunt down my old number, my date of birth was September 11, 1985. Thank you very much.
Sincerely
Victoria Villata
1. Why does Mrs. Villata need a new Social Security Card?
A. She is moving.
B. She lost the old one.
C. She has just gotten married.
D. She doesn’t remember her Social Security Number.
2. Why does Mrs. Villata give the Social Security Administration her date of birth?
A. She wants them to know old she is.
B. She is afraid they may have lost her Social security Card.
C. She thinks it will help them track down her Social Security Number.
D. She thinks that the older she is, the more social Security she will get.
3. Which part of Victoria Villata’s letter is LEAST important to the Social Security administration?
A. The fact that she has changed her name.
B. The fact that her card should be send to a new address.
C. The fact that she needs a replacement of Social Security Card.
D. The fact that she lost her wallet while pulling a tissue our of her pocket.
【答案与解析】“我”因丢失了社会安全卡，所以，向社会安全局申办一个新的安全卡。
1. B。判断题。书信正文的第 2 段第 1 句话I lost my old one last week 已明显告知我申办新的社会安全卡的原因。
2. C。语义理解题。从书信最后一段最后一句话In case you need more information about me to hunt down my old number可以做出正确选择。
3. D。判断题。从 4 个选项来看，A、B、C三项内容对社会安全局来说当然重要，至于Victoria Villata 是怎样丢失钱包的对他们肯定不重要。
