Question

When most people travel, they spend some time booking hotel rooms. However, my friend Ashley and I were not like most people many years ago. We decided that backpacking through Ireland would be more fun if we “winged it”.

Winging it, of course, meant that we’d each buy a one-way ticket to Dublin, and give ourselves ten days to get back to Bath, England, where we were enrolled in a study-abroad program. The plan was to visit Dublin, Galway, Cong, and finally end things in Belfast, where we figured we could catch a flight back to England.

Unfortunately, Ireland had other plans for us, as nothing worked out the way in which we thought it would. After getting stuck in Galway and Cong for about seven days, we finally managed to take a bus trip from Cong to Belfast. The twelve-hour bus ride started at ten in the morning, which meant that we’d arrive in the heart of Belfast at around ten at night. Of course, like all transport, the bus ran late, and we ended up in Belfast at around eleven-thirty at night. As there were a ton of hotels around the area where it dropped us off, we weren’t too worried about finding a hotel room. But hotel after hotel turned us down.

After the third hotel turned us down and the fourth one was locked up for the night, Ashley and I started to realize that we had to spend a long night sleeping on a city bench. Like militant soldiers, we slept in turn as we were worried we would get robbed. The system worked, as we were able to stay safe while catching as much sleep as we could on the bench.

From this experience, I really learnt a good lesson.

1.Why did the author and his friend decide to wing it when they went to travel in Ireland? (No more than 8 words)

2.What did the author and his friend do in Bath, England? (No more than 8 words)

3.How long did it take the author and his friend to get to Belfast from Cong by bus? (No more than 5 words)

4.Why did the author and his friend have to take turns to sleep? (No more than 8 words)

 

Answer 1

1.Because they felt it would be more fun.

2.They were enrolled in a study-abroad program.

3. It took 12 hours./ 12 hours.

4.Because they were afraid they would get robbed.

【解析】

試題分析：本文主要講述的作者和朋友背著背包外出的時候，遇見了沒有預料到的特殊情況，最后設法回家的故事。

1.1】Because they felt it would be more fun.

細節題。根據第一段最后一句We decided that backpacking through Ireland would be more fun if we “winged it”. 可知作者這樣做的主要原因是想從中得到快樂。

2.

細節題。根據第2段2,3行give ourselves ten days to get back to Bath, England, where we were enrolled in a study-abroad program.可知他們參與了一個study-abroad的計劃。

3.

細節題。根據第3段3,4行The twelve-hour bus ride started at ten in the morning, which meant that we’d arrive in the heart of Belfast at around ten at night.可知這段旅行花了12小時左右的時間。

4.

細節題。根據第4段2,3行Like militant soldiers, we slept in turn as we were worried we would get robbed可知他們這樣做是擔心被搶劫。

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