Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 31 to 35
Few people have packed more into a day trip than Michael and Lillian Long from Kent who took the ferry from their home in England to Boulogne in France in 1987. On Easter Sunday this adventurous couple went for a short walk around the town. In no time they were spectacularly lost and showing all the qualities of born explorers.
'We walked and walked,' Mrs Long recalled, 'and the further we walked to try to get back, the further we walked away from Boulogne.' Unable to speak French, they felt embarrassed about asking the way, so they walked throughout the night until finally the next morning a driver gave them a lift to a small village they did not recognise. Here they caught a train to the wrong destination - Paris. In the French capital they spent all their remaining money on catching what they thought was the express train back to Boulogne. After an enjoyable trip they arrived in Luxembourg on Monday.
Two hours later police put them on the train back to Paris, but it divided and their half ended up in Basel, an attractive medieval town in the north of Switzerland. Having no money, they tried to find work, but without success. The railway company offered them a free ticket to Belfort, thinking that this was where they had come from. Once they got off the train, our heroes hiked forty-two miles to Vesoul, hitched a lift to Paris and then nearly boarded the train to Bonn in Germany. Diverted just in time to the right platform, they finally reached Boulogne a week after they had set out on their walk. They had covered a distance of almost 1,700 km without luggage, maps or any idea of where they were. When he arrived at Dover harbour, Mr Long said it was the first time they had travelled abroad and that they would not be leaving England again.
(Adapted from Exam Activator by Bob Hastings et al.)
Question 31. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. How to avoid getting lost in an alien culture?                          B. The least successful day trip.
C. From the story of an adventurous couple: Never go travelling! D. The hesitation to ask for help during the miserable trip.
Question 32. The word “qualities” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______
     A. qualifications                 B. boldness                         C. characteristics                D. appearances
Question 33. According to the passage, when the couple first got lost, they didn’t ask for directions because _______
A. they didn’t recall what happened                                B. it was late and there was no one on the road
C. a drive was willing to drive them to their destination   D. their French was not very good
Question 34. The word “it” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.
     A. trip                                 B. town                               C. train                               D. ticket
Question 35. Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
A. The couple decided to take a train in the hope of coming back to where they left
B. The police deliberately put the couple in the wrong train to Paris
C. Mr and Mrs. Long failed to seek employment when they were in ancient town
D. The couple did not recognise where they had gone
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