Below is a selection about interesting hotels.

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The following are taken from these books. You will find much more information about these hotels in the books.
Kakslauttanen Hotel

It is the home of the famous Igloo（冰屋）Village with the unique glass and snow igloos and the world’s largest snow restaurant. In addition , their guests can enjoy the winter activities including watching the Northern Lights visible generally from late August to late April. Guests can sample the peace of sleeping in snow. Their glass igloos are fantastic for lying on your bed at night, watching the Northern Lights in the warm. You can enjoy cold or warm night sleep as required.
Art Hotel in Ronda

Beautifully situated in the oldest paved street of Ronda and surrounded by historic buildings, Art Hotel is decorated with original and historical artwork and atmospheric lighting. There is lots of fun and funky touches, e. g. lights and birds nesting in old basketballs, wall murals（壁画）of Michael Jackson , car tyres converted to occasional tables.
During your stay, all drinks, breakfast and the use of all facilities are included in the price of the room.
Otter Creek Tents
The tents are separated from the rest of the world by a quiet salt-water creek. A coconut plantation dating back to 1886, the secret location preserves the privacy and peace of guests, with the salt water of the creek keeping even the mosquitoes away.
Each tent sleeps 2 in a four-poster double bed and has a western style toilet and bathroom with running water and hot shower. The tents use the dining facilities of the charming “Elsewhere” beach houses and enjoy over a mile of the pristine（处于原始状态的）beach where one can still see the footprints of fishermen , and during the season , possibly the prints of sea turtles.
The Original Icehotel

“Imagine a hotel built from thousands of tons of snow and ice, and rebuilt every winter”--that is ICEHOTEL in northern Lapland, Sweden.
This is the original ICEHOTEL, first created in the early 1990s. It has become the global ambassador for this genre and now licenses ICEBARs around the world too. With 80 ＋ rooms, the property is a huge undertaking to be rebuilt every year, and their expertise inspired other similar properties in North America and elsewhere.
小题1:People staying in Kakslauttanen Hotel can watch the Northern Lights EXCEPT in ________.

A．August

B．April

C．December

D．June

小题2:What is special about Otter Creek Tents?

A．You can sleep in a house made of ice there.

B．It is surrounded by a forest.

C．You can enjoy the scenes of a beach.

D．You can enjoy turtles cooked in a special way there.

小题3:If you want to experience sleeping with snow or ice around, you can choose ________.

A．Kakslauttanen Hotel and Art Hotel in Ronda

B．Otter Creek Tents and Icehotel

C．Art Hotel in Ronda and Otter Creek Tents

D．Kakslauttanen Hotel and Icehotel

小题4:What’s the author’s purpose of writing the passage?

A．To show us the advantages of staying in hotels.

B．To introduce and promote some books.

C．To encourage people to travel around the world.

D．To explain to us how people manage the hotels.

below is a selection from a popular science book.

if blood is red, why are veins (静脉) blue? actually, veins are not blue at all. they are more of a clear, yellowish color. although blood looks red when it’s outside the body, when it’s sitting in a vein near the surface of the skin, it’s more of a dark reddish purple color. at the right depth, these blood-filled veins reflect less red light than the surrounding skin, making them look blue by comparison. which works harder, your heart or your brain? that kind of depends on whether you’re busy thinking or busy exercising. your heart works up to three times harder during exercise, and shifts enough blood over a lifetime to fill a super***er（超级油轮）. but, in the long run, your brain probably tips it, because even when you’re sitting still your brain is using twice as much energy as your heart, and it takes four to five times as much blood to feed it. why do teeth fall out, and why don’t they grow back in grown-ups? baby (or “milk”) teeth do not last long; they fall out to make bigger room for bigger, stronger adult teeth later on. adult teeth fall out when they become damaged, decayed（腐烂）and infected by bacteria. once this second set of teeth has grown in, you’re done. when they’re gone, they are gone. this is because nature figures you’re set for life, and what controls regrowth of your teeth switches off. do old people shrink（收缩）as they age? yes and no. many people do get shorter as they age. but, when they do, it isn’t because they’re shrinking all over. they simply lose height as their spine (脊柱) becomes shorter and more curved due to disuse and the effect of gravity (重力). many (but not all) men and women do lose height as they get older. men lose an average of 3-4 cm in height as they age, while women may lose 5 cm or more. if you live to be 200 years old, would you keep shrinking till you were, like 60 cm tall, like a little boy again? no, because old people don’t really shrink! it is not that they are growing backwards—their legs, arms and backbones getting shorter. when they do get shorter, it’s because the spine has shortened a little. or, more often, become more bent and curved. why does spinning make you dizzy)? because your brain gets confused between what you’re seeing and what you’re feeling. the brain senses that you’re spinning using special gravity-and-motion-sensing organs in your inner ear, which work together with your eyes to keep your vision balance stable. but when you suddenly stop spinning the system goes out of control, and your brain thinks you’re moving while you’re not. where do feelings and emotions come from? mostly from an ancient part of the brain called the limbic system（边缘系统）. all mammals have this brain area — from mice to dogs, cats, and humans. so all mammals feel basic emotions like fear, pain and pleasure. but since human feelings also involve other, newer bits of the brain, we feel more complex emotions than any other animal on this planet. if exercise wears you out, how can it be good for you? because our bodies adapt to everything we do to them. and as far as your body is concerned, it’s “use it, or lose it”! it’s not that exercise makes you healthy, it’s more that a lack of exercise leaves your body weak and easily affected by disease.

小题1:what is the color of blood in a vein near the surface of the skin?

a．blue	b．light yellow
c．red	d．dark reddish purple

小题2:why do some old people look a little shrunken as they age?

a．because their spine is in active use.

b．because they are more easily affected by gravity.

c．because they keep growing backwards.

d．because their spine becomes more bent.

小题3:which of the following statements about our brain is true?

a．in the long run, our brain probably works harder than our heart.

b．when our brain senses the spinning, we will feel dizzy.

c．the brains of the other mammals are as complex as those of humans.

d．our feelings and emotions come from the most developed area in our brain.

小题4:what is the main purpose of the selection?

a．to give advice on how to stay healthy.

b．to provide information about our body.

c．to challenge new findings in medical research.

d．to report the latest discoveries in medical science.