問題詳情

III. Reading Comprehension 10% Spain is a popular tourist destination for many reasons: great art and museums,gorgeous beaches, not to mention world-famous architecture. But it’s not to admire thescenery that, on the last Wednesday of August, up to 50,000 tourists descend on the townof Buñol. They’re there, instead, to take part in the world’s largest tomato fight! Oddly enough, the festival of La Tomatina begins not with a tomato, but with a ham.At about 10 a.m., the assembled crowd must get someone up a greased pole where a hamwaits at the top. Freeing the ham is the cue for the delivery of over 100 tons of tomatoes,and then the battle is ready to commence. The streets and the crowd are soon coveredwith red, sticky tomato pulp, and anyone with a baseball cap or camera—stereotypicalbadges of the tourist—is a surefire target. But even in the midst of this anarchy, safetymatters. Goggles are strongly recommended for all participants, and tomatoes must besoftened by squashing them before being thrown. Exactly one hour after it begins, themadness ends. Fire trucks turn their hoses on the mess, but as the trucks are moreconcerned with cleaning the town than the people, many participants wash in the nearbyBuñol River. The origins of the festival are obscure; all that’s known is that some tomatoes werethrown at a religious festival in 1945 and that things took off from there. Of course,history is probably far less important to those involved than the chance to enjoy somemessy fun and give new meaning to the phrase “paint the town red.”
61. Where are we most likely to read this passage?
(A) In a physics textbook.
(B) In a travel brochure.
(C) In an interior design magazine.
(D) In a medical journal.

參考答案

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

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