hairy-胫腓骨
09
年英语专业八级全真试题
(2)
PART II READING COMPREHENSION
（
30
MIN
）
In this section there are
four reading passages followed by a total of
20
multiple-choice
the
passages
and
then
mark
your
answers on your
coloured answer sheet.
TEXT A
We
ha
d
been
wanting
to
expand
our
children’s
horizons
by
taking
them to a place that
was unlike anything we’d been exposed to during
our
travels
in
Europe
and
the
United
States.
In
thinking
about
what
was
possible
from
Geneva,
where
we
are
based,
we
decided
on
a
trip
to
Istanbul, a two-hour
plane ride from Zurich.
We envisioned the trip as a
prelude to more exotic ones, perhaps to
New
Delhi
or
Bangkok
later
this
year,
but
thought
our
11-
and
13-year-olds
needed
a
first
step
away
from
manicured
boulevards
and
pristine monuments.
What we didn’t foresee was the reaction
of friends, who warned that
we
were
putting
our
children
“in
danger,”
referring
vaguely,
and
most
incorrectly,
to
disease,
terrorism
or
just
the
unknown.
To
help
us
get
acquainted
with
the
peculiarities
of
Istanbul
and
to
give
our
children
a
chance
to
choose
what
they
were
particularly
interested
in
seeing,
we
bought
an excellent guidebook and read it thoroughly
before leaving.
Friendly
warnings
didn’t
change
our
planning,
although
we
migh
t
have
more
prudently
checked
with
the
U.S.
State
Department’s
list
of
troublespots.
We
didn’t
see
a
lot of
children
among
the
foreign
visitors
during our six-day
stay in Istanbul, but we found the tourist areas
quite
safe,
very
interesting
and
varied
enough
even
to
suit
our
son,
whose
oft-
repeated request is that
we not see “every single” church and museum
in a given city.
Vaccinations
weren’t
needed
for
the
city,
but
we
were
concemed
about adapting to
the water for a short stay. So we used bottled
water for
drinking
and
brushing
our
teeth,
a precaution that
may
seem
excessive,
but we all stayed healthy.
Taking
the
advice
of
a
friend,
we
booked
a
hotel
a
20-minute
walk
from
most
of
Istanbul’s
major
tourist
sites.
This
not
only
got
us
some
morning exercise, strolling over the
Karakoy Bridge, but took us past a
colorful assortment of fishermen,
vendors and shoe shiners.
From a teenager and
pre-
teen’s view, Istanbul street life
is fascinating
since almost everything
can be bought outdoors. They were at a good age
to spend time wandering the labyrinth
of the Spice Bazaar, where shops
display
mounds
of
pungent
herbs
in
sacks.
Doing
this
with
younger
children would be harder simply because
the streets are so packed with
people;
it would be easy to get lost.
For our two,
whose buying experience consisted of department
stores
and shopping mall boutiques, it
was amazing to discover that you could