2 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. spread B. formal C. chance D. found E. objective F. experience G. divisions H. economical I. respect J. replaced K. classroom |
The idea of the youth hostel(旅社)started with one man: Richard Schirrmann(1874—1961), a German school teacher, who felt that there was a need for overnight accommodation for his students in order that they could see new things and have new experiences outside the 1 .
He felt that one learns by observing, and tried to make his dream come true in the year 1909, when he started providing accommodation for his students in inns, farmhouses and the like.
The first youth hostel was opened in Schirrmann’s own school in Altena, after which it was 2 by a permanent hostel in Altena Castle. Schirrmann went on to 3 the German Youth Hostel Association in the year 1919. By this time, the idea of the youth hostel had 4 far and wide, all over the lands of Europe and further.
And then, in the year 1932, a(n) 5 organization called the International Youth Hostel was founded in Amsterdam, which consisted of youth hostels from Switzerland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Norway, Britain, Ireland, France, Czechoslovakia, Denmark and Belgium. Richard Schirrmann became its chairman in 1933.
The idea of the youth hostel is for young people who are on nature trips to get 6 accommodation in exchange for some money and a helping hand with the domestic chores(家务活). These hostels were said to build character and a sense of independence, as the youth who stayed in them got the 7 to see how other people lived as well as to help to do work.
Youth hostels are also places to meet and make new friends. They have no class 8 and everyone has to do their share. Here, wealth and position does not help you gain 9 , but friendliness does. The friendlier you are, the more you learn from the 10 of staying in a youth hostel.