第6部分:完形填空(第51~65题,每题1分,共15分) 下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。 Hitchhiking(搭车旅游) When I was in my teens(十几岁)and 20s,hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport.The kindness or curiosity of strangers (51)me all over Europe,North America,Asia and southern Africa.Some of the lift-givers became friends,many provided hospitality (52)the road. Not only did you find out much more about a country than (53)traveling by train or plane,but also there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night.Hitchhiking featured importantly in Western culture.It has books and songs about it.So what has happened to (54)? A few years ago,I asked the same question about hitchhiking in a column on a newspaper. (55)of people from all over the world responded with their view on the state of hitchhiking. If there is a hitchhikers (56)it must be lran,came one reply.Rural lreland was recommended as a friendly place for hitchhiking, (57)was Quebec,Canada-if you dont mind being berated(严厉指责)for not speaking French. But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in many parts of the world,the (58)feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed(消亡). |