Adventure Vacations
People like different kinds of vacations. Some go
camping. They swim, fish, cook over a fire and sleep outside. Others like to
stay at a hotel in an exciting city. They go shopping all day and go dancing
all night. Or maybe they go sightseeing to places such as Disneyland, the Tai
Mahan or the Louver.
Some people are bored with sightseeing trips. They
don’t want to be “tourists”. They want to have an adventure--a surprising and
exciting trip. They want to learn something and maybe help people too. How can
they do this? Some travel companies and environmental groups are planning
special adventures. Sometimes these trips are difficult and full of hardships,
but they’re a lot of fun. One organization, Earth watch, sends small groups of
volunteers to different parts of the world. Some volunteers spend two weeks and
study the environment. Others work with animals. Others learn about people of
the past.
Would you like an adventure in the Far North? A team
of volunteers is leaving from Mormons, Russia. The leader of this trip is a
professor from Alaska. He’s worried about chemicals from factories. He and the
volunteers will study this pollution in the environment. If you like exercise
and cold weather, this is a good trip for you. Volunteers need ski sixteen
kilometers every day.
Do you enjoy ocean animals? You can spend two to four
weeks in Hawaii. There, you can teach language to dolphins. Dolphins can follow
orders such as “Bring me the large ball.” They also understand opposites. How
much more can they understand? It will be exciting to learn about these
intelligent animals. Another study trip goes to Washington State and follows
orcas. We call orcas “killer Whale”, but they’re really dolphins—the largest
kind of dolphin. This beautiful animal travels together in family groups. They
move through the ocean with their mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers.
Ocean pollution is chasing their lives. Earth watch is studying how this
happens.
Are you interested in history? Then Greece is the
place for your adventure. Thirty-five hundred years ago a volcano exploded
there, on Santorum. This explosion was more terrible than Karate or Mount Saint
Helens. But today we know a lot about the way of life of the people from that
time. There are houses, kitchens, and paintings as interesting as those in
Pompeii. Today teams of volunteers are learning more about people from the
past.
Do you want a very different vacation? Do you want to
travel far, work hard and learn a lot? Then an Earth watch vacation is for you.
1.The Tai Mahan may be _______.
A.a(chǎn) shopping
center B.a(chǎn) hotel
C.a(chǎn) dancing
hall D.a(chǎn) place of
interest
2.From the passage, on an adventure trip, people
______.
A.may not spend
much time on sightseeing
B.won’t meet some difficulties or hardships
C.can’t enjoy them
D.can’t learn something
3.If you want to learn something about people of the
past, you can _______.
A.join the team
to Hawaii
B.join the team
to the Far North
C.join the team
to Washington
D.join the team
to Greece
4.Which of the following is false?
A.Some people
find sightseeing trips boring.
B.Earth watch
is planning all these special adventures.
C.The number of
orcas is decreasing.
D.3 volcano
explosions in all broke out 3, 500 years ago in Greece.