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阅读理解 Get ready for the sights and sounds of the Nation’s Capital.Tourmobile Sigh

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阅读理解 Get ready for the sights and sounds of the Nation’s Capital.Tourmobile Sigh

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Get ready for the sights and sounds of the Nation’s Capital.Tourmobile Sightseeing’s narrated shuttle tours take you right where you want to go with unlimited free reboarding.You choose where to stop, stay as long as you want, then reboard and ride to another historic site.

Tour of Washington DC

Let Tourmobile Sightseeing take you on a Washington tour you will long remember.From monuments to museums, from history past to history in the making, our narrators will give you information on exhibits, architecture and the people who inspired it all.

Operates:Daily except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day

Departures:Continuously, with final reboarding 1 hour before closing, as follows:9∶30am-4∶30pm

Arlington National Cemetery Tour

Step into our nation’s history and remember the American patriots, both humble and well-known, whose final resting place is in the wooded hills of Arlington.Tourmobile provides the only authorized riding tour through Arlington National Cemetery.Narrators will relate accounts of heroism and personal sacrifice as you ride to important sites:

●Kennedy Gravesites

●Tomb of the Unknowns(Changing of the Guard)

●Arlington House, the Robert E.Lee Memorial

Operates:Daily except Christmas Day

Departures:Continuously during operating hours below:

8∶30am-6∶30pm April thru September

8∶30am–4∶30pm October thru March

Last tour begins at 30 minutes before the close of the cemetery.

Mount Vernon Tour

Travel through historic Old Town Alexandria and the scenic countryside of Virginia to Mount Vernon, the estate and gardens of President George Washington.You can explore the 14 room mansion, the new Ford Orientation Center, and the Donald Reynolds Museum & Education Center.

Operates:Daily June 15 thru Labor Day
 The Mount Vernon tour lasts 5 hours.

Departure:11 am

Frederick Douglass Tour

Visit Cedar Hill, the newly restored home of former Slave Frederick Douglass, who became a statesman, orator and advisor to Presidents.Ride through historic Capitol Hill, past Lincoln Park and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial.A unique tour of African-American history.

Operates:Daily June 15 thru Labor Day

 The Douglass tour lasts 2 1/2 hours.

Departure:Noon

(1)

If you ride Tourmobile to a historic site for a visit and then to another one, you ________.

[]

A.

have to pay the fare again

B.

needn’t pay the fare again

C.

can reboard with the narrator

D.

have to go back where you start

(2)

The tour on which you can get on board Tourmobile at the latest hour in summer is ________.

[]

A.

Tour of Washington DC

B.

Arlington National Cemetery Tour

C.

Mount Vernon Tour

D.

Frederick Douglass Tour

(3)

We can learn from the passage that ________.

[]

A.

President George Washington’s home is in Old Town Alexandria

B.

you may ride Tourmobile touring Washington on New Year’s Day

C.

Frederick Douglass Tour is a continuous year-round sightseeing service

D.

Tourmobile Sightseeing is the only riding tour of Arlington National Cemetery

(4)

The Tourmobile Sightseeing tours are mainly about ________.

[]

A.

entertainment

B.

scenery

C.

history

D.

art

试题答案

答案:1.B;2.B;3.D;4.C;