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六、閱讀測驗(共 10 題，計 20 分) (41~46)     In almostany magazine or newspaper in England, you canfind advertisements for adventure tours to exotic places. Theseexciting tours can be bicycling, hiking, or even motorcycle tripsacross deserts, over mountains, and around live volcanoes!Many of these tours are for charity which makes them moreinteresting to some people.    One advertisement offers people a "Bike Ride to Hell andBack," a 400-kilometer bicycle tour across the lava fields ofIceland. The advertisement says that the tour is like a ride acrossthe face of the moon. The organization that put this tourtogether is advertising for people who can give time and effortto raising money for a good cause. For their hard work, thesepeople will also be able to take the holiday of a lifetime.    The first thing that people have to do is sign up for the tour.The number of people who can go on each tour is limited, andmany tours fill up fast. Those who sign up then have to pay adeposit in order to hold their space on the tour. People cannotget their money back later if they change their mind, so they hadbetter be sure they really want to go. The deposit is usuallybetween£50-250.    Next, each person must raise a minimum amount ofmoney for the charity. This money could be anywhere between£1500,-2500. In order to raise this much money, some peoplesend letters to friends and relatives asking for help. Other peoplehave big parties where all of the guests must pay to come to theparty. One farmer even divided up his field into one metersquares to raise money. People could buy one square of the fieldfor£1 each. Then the farmer let his cow walk across the field.Whoever bought the square where the cow dropped its first''cow patty" won a prize. Surprisingly, the majority of peoplewho go on the adventure tours end up collecting more than theminimum money that the charity asks for.    Some people see a problem with this system of raisingmoney for charities. They think that it is wrong for part of themoney that people collect to be used to pay for someone’sholiday. However, charities try to keep the overall cost of thetours low so that at least 60 or 70% of the money which is raisedgoes to the charity. One charity said, "We expect to make anaverage profit of £50,000 per trip." This charity typically runsbetween 10 to 15 tours each year.    Do people really want to spend their holiday doingsomething like bicycling for 400 kilometers when they could beresting on a beach? These tours are not for everybody. But thepeople who sign up for them all agree that it is a greatexperience. After hiking across the Namib Desert, a youngconstruction worker from London cried as he hugged all of theother people who had been on the tour with him. Everyonecried. Most of them never thought that they could take part inan adventure like that. They had not only finished a difficult hike,but they had done it forsomeone else, for the charity.
41. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(A) A Dangerous Charity Tour
(B) Interesting Places to Visit
(C) Two Very Different Charity Tours
(D) How Charities Raise Money through Tours

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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