1 . Copenhagen has GREAT public transport. It is reliable, safe, and easily accessible. Of course, like everything in Copenhagen, it is not cheap. The system can be a little confusing, even for locals, but we’re here to help simplify it all for you! And today our focus is Travelling with a Bike.

BIKES ON THE TRAIN

Bicycles can be taken on s-tog lines for free but you can’t take bikes through Nørreport station during peak hours. To take your bike on a train, you need to put it on the first or last carriage, clearly marked with large signs of bicycles on the outside.

To take a bike on a regional train, which takes you to parts of Denmark outside Copenhagen, you must buy an extra ticket. The price depends on the distance and varies from 16 kr to 28 kr.

BIKES ON THE METRO

Bicycles can be taken on the metro for an extra 13 kr. You need to pay for the bike with its own ticket. You can’t take your bike on the metro during peak hours.

BIKES ON THE BUS

You can bring a bike on a bus but each bus is limited to two bikes, even if there is much space. Generally, people do not travel with their bikes on buses in Copenhagen.

BIKES ON THE FERRY(渡轮)

Charges for bicycles depend on the company and the destination. You will need to check with the ferry companies. When you book the ticket, you must state that you have a cycle, even if it’s free of charge.

1. Who is this text probably intended for?

A．Tourist guides.

B．Bike travelers.

C．Local citizens.

D．Ticket inspectors.

2. On which public transport can you take a bike for free?

A．A peak time s-tog train.

B．A weekday regional train.

C．An off-peak metro train.

D．A weekend ferry.

3. What is the disadvantage of bringing a bike on a bus?

A．Buses are too crowded.

B．It’s against the local custom.

C．Availability is not guaranteed.

D．It’s not welcomed by other passengers.

2 . The best way to see the world’s architectural wonders is to visit them in person, so grab your passport and book a trip to one of these amazing destinations if you have a longing for a spot of building-based bliss (极乐) this year.

Barcelona

Every year millions of people flood to this vibrant (充满活力的) Spanish city to see some of the amazingly unique works of the famous architect Antoni Gaudi. The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia is the most popular of these and is still being built, in spite of the fact that work began all the way back in 1882.

Monaco

While ultramodern architecture tends to grab all of the headlines, if you are looking for a more traditional type of design that speaks to the wealth of bygone (过去的) eras, Monaco is definitely worth adding to your list. Monte Carlo is undoubtedly the best place to visit if you want to be bathed in the beauty of the coastline it shares with the French Riviera while also seeing some of the most gorgeous hotels that Europe has to offer.

Athens

A lot of ancient architecture stands in the Greek capital, with buildings that have stood for thousands of years still managing to tower over the tourists that visit them. From the impressive, awe-inspiring relics of the Parthenon to temples to various gods including Zeus and Hephaestus, Athens is the place to visit if you are eager to see architecture that is filled with history.

Singapore

In contrast to Monte Carlo, the architecture of Singapore is cutting edge and futuristic, to the point that visitors may feel like they have stepped onto the setting of a science fiction film rather than a living, breathing city. The Helix Bridge is a must-see architectural attraction of Singapore, with its 280-metre-span stretching in an arcing curve and consisting of intertwined (缠绕的) metal strands (金属链) that bring the structure of DNA into mind.

1. What is unique about the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia?

A．It is modern rather than traditional.

B．It was built in honor of Antoni Gaudi.

C．It is located right in the Greek capital.

D．It has taken more than 100 years to build it.

2. Where can you enjoy the beauty of the coastline near the French Riviera?

A．Monte Carlo.

B．Athens.

C．Barcelona.

D．Singapore.

3. Who is most likely to be interested in this text?

A．An architect major.	B．A hotel manager.
C．A wildlife researcher.	D．A biology student.

3 . Best royal palaces in Europe you can visit

There are some royal palaces in Europe that they often open their doors to the public.

Drottningholm Palace, Sweden

This breathtaking 17th century palace in Drottningholm is not only the residence of the Swedish royal family, but it’s also a UNESCO World Heritage Site thanks to its impressively preserved castle and theatre. The palace and park are open to the public year-round.

Royal Palace of Oslo, Norway

The official royal residence for the Norwegian royals, this beautiful palace boasts neoclassical architecture and landscaped gardens complete with ponds and eye-catching statues. During the summer months the palace opens to the public on guided tours, which include beautiful staterooms (会客厅), the Bird Room, the Great Hall and the Family Dining Room.

Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain

While the Palacio Real is officially the royal residence, nowadays the Spanish royals choose to live in the Zarzuela Palace instead, with the Madrid palace used mainly for state ceremonies. There are over 3, 000 rooms in this breathtaking palace making it one of the largest palaces in the world. Highlights include the royal kitchens and the painting gallery, while the Changing of the Guard ceremony never fails to be a hit with tourists.

Palace of Versailles, France

If you seek after a palace that’s luxurious (豪华的), then the Palace of Versailles needs to be on your list. France hasn’t had a royal family since the French Revolution in 1789, but this palace offers a glimpse into how the former royals lived, as well as serving as a museum paying tribute to France’s rich history.

1. What is special about Drottningholm Palace?

A．It is open to the public.	B．It is redecorated.
C．It’s the residence of French royal family.	D．It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

2. What do the attractions of Royal Palace of Madrid include?

A．The painting gallery.	B．A history museum.
C．Beautiful staterooms.	D．An impressive castle.

3. What can we learn about Palace of Versailles?

A．The changing of the Guard ceremony.	B．The process of French Revolution.
C．The history of Spanish royals.	D．The way of the former royals’ life.

4 . Four Great Waterfront Resorts (度假胜地)

Waking up near the water at these wonderful waterfront resorts must be quite an impressive experience for you.

West Oaks Resort

West Oaks Resort is just steps away from some of the best attractions in Okoboji-Arnolds Park Amusement Park, Queen’s Court shopping center, and downtown bars and restaurants. If that isn’t enough, it has a to-die-for view of sunsets, a unique experience for vacationers. The lakeside condos (公寓) in it are equipped with a kitchen, a living room, a master bedroom and an outdoor pool.

Arrowwood Resort & Conference Centre

Located between the beautiful Brooks National Golf Club and the scenic Iowa Great Lakes, Arrowwood Resort & Conference Centre in Okoboji promises a memorable getaway. Spend a day swimming outside, boating on the lake, or staying indoors to explore Water Play-land. Moreover, no trip here is complete without dining at the Minerva’s Restaurant & Bar. With several award-winning dishes, it’s the best place for steak and seafood.

Fillenwarth Beach Resort

A stay at Fillenwarth Beach Resort includes a wonderful cruise (乘船游览) aboard one of the two 49-foot, custom- made cruisers on popular West Lake Okoboji. Or set sail on your own with free access to the resort’s sailboats, rowboats, and paddleboats. The resort also provides guests with accommodations ranging from lakefront houses, studios and penthouses to a collection of cottages and apartments.

Grand Harbor Resort & Waterpark

It is the first themed indoor water park in Iowa with 25, 000 square feet of water attractions. Guests will enjoy water slides, indoor and outdoor tube rides and a water playground. When it comes to the accommodation, Grand Harbor Resort & Waterpark has plenty of rooms where you can overlook the historic town.

1. What highlights West Oaks Resort?

A．The award-wimming food.

B．The amazing sunset views.

C．The wonderful indoor activities

D．The convenient public transportation.

2. What can vacationers do at Fillenwarth Beach Resort?

A．Enjoy the tasty homemade food.

B．Experience the unusual customs.

C．Go boating on West Lake Okoboji.

D．Have fun at the indoor water park.

3. Where will you go if you want to get a bird’s-eve view of a town?

A．West Oaks Resort.

B．Arrowwood Resort & Conference Centre.

C．Fillenwarth Beach Resort.

D．Grand Harbor Resort & Waterpark.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Sunshine, beaches and coconuts... these may appear in our minds    1    we discuss Hainan province. But this land is more than    2    place on the bucket list of travellers and foodies(美食家). It’s also a key area for ecosystems.

In April, Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected(视察)a section of Hainan Tropical(热带的)Rainforest National Park in Wuzhishan city,    3    (say)that “Hainan is a province of ecological resources and the work of building Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park    4    (be)top priority”.

Covering a total area of 4, 269 square kilometres, Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park has the most concentrated and well-preserved tropical rainforests in China.    5    (know)as “nature’s regulator”, rainforests can not only provide locals    6    rich soil and a constant supply of water, but also reduce the effects of climate change by taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen. The park is famous for    7    (it)rich biodiversity.

Though only occupying(占有)0.045 per cent of the country’s area, Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park is home to    8    (thousand)of special plants and animals.    9    (maintain)the ecosystem, the Hainan provincial government has promoted the construction of the park.    10    (lucky), their efforts paid off.

6 . Mickey Mouse welcomed visitors to his new home in China on June 16, 2016 as Disney opened its first theme park in the country.

The park, located in the city of Shanghai, opened with fireworks.

Joe Schott, president and general manager of Shanghai Disney Resort, said, “I can promise you that there is still so much left to be revealed, and I cannot wait to share it all with you in the months and years to come.”

Tens of thousands streamed into Shanghai Disneyland for its debut(问世), an event that was nearly two decades in the making. The $ 5.5 billion resort(度假胜地) covers 963 acres, but Disney has already begun expansion.

Company officials said they tried to reflect Chinese preferences in the new park.

“We didn’t build Disneyland in China, we built China’s Disneyland,” said Bob Iger, Disney’s chairman.

There’s a traditional Chinese tea house featuring local food. The Lion King performed in Mandarin for the first time, features the Monkey King and characters dressed in Chinese opera garb(服装)to appeal to an Asian audience.

In the castle, guests not only walk through, as they do in other Disney parks, they can also eat and shop. When it was discovered that Chinese people didn’t have a favourite Disney princess, the company decided that the castle would feature all the princesses. Parks in California and France are based on the Sleeping Beauty story.

“The visitors can learn the princesses over time, and this gives them an opportunity to have an introduction to all of the princess stories,” said executive producer Ali Rubinstein.

However, China’s Disneyland sometimes are not closely related to China. Disney’s only animated film based on a Chinese story, Mulan, which tells the tale of a Chinese warrior woman, got neither its own ride nor stage show. The character appears only as a statue and afloat in the parade.

1. What’s Joe Schott’s attitude to Shanghai Disney Resort?

A．Disappointed.

B．Concerned.

C．Doubtful.

D．Confident.

2. What can be learned from what Bob said in paragraph 6?

A．They build the theme park in China.

B．The theme park belongs to China.

C．The theme park has Chinese elements.

D．The theme park has a long Chinese history.

3. Why does China’s Disneyland have all kinds of princesses?

A．Chinese people have no certain favourite Disney princess.

B．Chinese people don’t know any princess characters in Disney movies.

C．Chinese people believe “the more, the better”.

D．Parks in other countries are based on the Sleeping Beauty story.

4. What is the purpose of giving the Mulan example?

A．To show the Chinese character of Disneyland.

B．To show Mulan is an important part of Chinese culture.

C．To show China’s Disneyland has not reflected enough Chinese culture.

D．To show Disneyland has too few Chinese character films.

7 . Hotels often undergo makeovers. However, few can compete with the Ice hotel in Jukkasjãrvi, Sweden. Carved entirely from “Snice”—a mix of snow and ice—the hotel is rebuilt annually, with each version more impressive than the previous one. The 32nd Ice hotel was open to guests on April 17, 2022.

The must-visit Swedish tourist destination came about accidentally. In 1989, Ice hotel’s founder Yngve Berquist organized an art show to attract tourists to Jukkasjärvi during the chilly winter months. The exhibition, held inside a 5.5-square-metre igloo (冰屋), was a runaway (迅速的) success. Many visitors decided to spend the night, selling out all of Jukkasjärvi’s warm houses. Hence, when a group approached Berquist about a place to spend the night, he offered them the igloo. “To my surprise, the guests were very impressed by the experience the morning after. Ice hotel was born,” Berquist recalls.

The Ice hotel has come a long way since its humble (简陋的)start. Constructed from 1, 000 tons of ice, and 30,000 tons of “Snice”, it now covers an area of over 5, 500 square metres, Preparations for the annual hotel begin in March with the harvesting of 5,000 tons of ice from the nearby Torne River. The ice is kept in cold storage until November when about 100 workers and artists get to work carving out a new structure. Ice hotel is typically open for business by mid-December.

This year’s hotel comprises 36 rooms, including 12 crafted art suites (套间). Decorated with massive ice stones and carved water shapes, it aims to provide visitors with a good nature experience. The “Dickensian Street” suite promises to take visitors on a tour of 19th-century England, complete with cobbled (铺鹅卵石的) streets, shops, and buildings from the era. Guests are advised to stay inside thermal (保暖的) sleeping bags and wear gloves and winter hats all night. Not surprisingly, most move to the conventional, warmer cabins nearby after a single night.

1. When was Sweden’s Ice hotel open for the 22nd time?

A．In 2012.

B．In 1992.

C．In 1990.

D．In 2022.

2. What made Ice hotel come into being?

A．Warm houses’ being sold out.	B．The special warmth of it.
C．The cheap ticket of it.	D．The unique structures of ice.

3. What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?

A．Differences of Ice hotel rebuilt from ever before.

B．The preparations for the annual hotel rebuilt.

C．How the ice is kept in cold storage in Ice hotel.

D．The development and construction of Ice hotel.

4. What can visitors do in Sweden’s Ice hotel?

A．Wear summer clothes even if in winter.

B．Spend nights in modern rooms in warm sleeping bags.

C．Experience 19th-century England in the “Dickensian Street” suite.

D．Taste different kinds of local special food in the Dickensian Street.

9 . Spring is just around the corner, but if you are tired of sunflowers, tulips (郁金香) and other standard gardens, why not head to one of these mysterious and wonderful botanical gardens？

Butchart Gardens, British Columbia, Canada

One of the rarest flowers you’ll find at Butchart Gardens is the Meconopsis, otherwise known as the Tibetan blue poppy. The most impressive flowers can be found in the borders, where you’ll find over one million bedding plants. And although the gardens are famous for their perennials (多年生植物), 300,000 spring-flowering plants are grown every year, and over 900 varieties of plants are grown for the summer gardens alone.

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town, South Africa

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is one of a handful of botanic gardens to grow only native plants. Some of the most popular varieties include the king protea, which produces enormous flowers between autumn and summer, and the rare silver tree, a silky-leaved plant, which experts believe could become extinct in the next 50 years.

Denver Botanic Gardens, Colorado, US

Once native to South Africa, these oddly-named flowers are famously drought-hardy, making them perfect for this part of North America. This garden is one of the few to focus on draught-tolerant plants from Colorado and the grasslands of Africa, Mongolia and Argentina. In fact, Colorado is home to nine species of endangered plant, and several can be found here.

Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden, Tromso, Norway

Visit the world’s northernmost botanical garden and you’ll find a breathtaking collection of plants from the world’s polar and mountainous regions including, in the Himalaya section, the rare giant Tibetan blue poppy, with its huge flowers and metre-high stem. You’ll also see the Wilander buttercup, which can only be found in the quite terrible areas of Svalbard’s unforgiving icy islands.

1. Which botanical garden only plants local species?

A．Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden.	B．Denver Botanic Gardens.
C．Butchart Gardens.	D．Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden.

2. Which is typical of the Tibetan blue poppy ?

A．Rare and hot-tolerant.	B．Smelly and ill-looking.
C．Large and tall.	D．Endangered and colorful.

3. What is the purpose of the text?

A．To analyze the features of plants.	B．To make an advertisement.
C．To protect the endangered plants.	D．To introduce some fantastic gardens.