湖北省黄冈市2016高考英语阅读理解及信息匹配选练(8) 根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Swapping Houses for Vacation When budgeting for a vacation, usually the most expensive part of the trip is the accommodations.The traditional way to take a vacation is to pack some bags, lock up the house, and travel to a new place to stay in a hotel.However, hotels are very expensive, and with rent or housing loan(贷款)due every month, it's difficult for most people to pay for yet another place to stay. 71 Luckily, there is a substitute called house swapping, and it's saving tourists a great deal of cash. 72 For example, if a couple from New York want to spend a week in Paris, they would place an ad offering to trade their New York apartment for one in Paris for a week.If a Parisian couple that want to vacation in New York read the advertisement, houses can be swapped, and both couples save hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars by avoiding big-city hotel fees.If all goes well, both couples can post positive reviews of the other's home online so that potential travelers can see that everything was fine. 73 |