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It’s 1 a.m., and I’m in Hong Kong for the first time, sitting in a bar in the Lan Kwai Fong district. I’m waiting for two girls
It’s 1 a.m., and I’m in Hong Kong for the first time, sitting in a bar in the Lan Kwai Fong district. I’m waiting for two girls
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2014-01-07
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问题
It’s 1 a.m., and I’m in Hong Kong for the first time, sitting in a bar in the Lan Kwai Fong district. I’m waiting for two girls I met on the Internet to show up and take me to their apartment, so my friend Harry and I can stay there for free for a few nights. Having been on flights for the past 24 hours, I am worn out and nervous when they don’t arrive on time.
But my faith is restored when I hear a thick Chinese accent asking, "Are you Cody?" Even though Jess and Jin are as much strangers to me as anyone else in the bar, I trust them. It seems as natural as being set up by a mutual friend, and, in a sense, that is exactly what is happening.
I first learned about CouchSurfing.com last fall from my mom’s friend, who was planning on hosting travelers in her home to add a Utile excitement to life after her oldest son went to college. She recommended I use it for an upcoming trip to Europe.
That’s how I became one of the millions of surfers who search hosts’ profiles and send requests—typically as much as a week or as little as a day before arriving in the hosts’ city—to sleep on those people’s couches or on their floor or in a spare bedroom.
CouchSurfing requests are not always accepted, as my friend and I learned about seven hours before arriving at the bar in Hong Kong. During our stay in Tokyo, I found out via e-mail that the requests I had submitted that morning to two potential hosts had both been politely declined. One host, had relatives visiting, and the other, was in Macau for the weekend.
So, I quickly joined the forum "Last Minute Couch Requests: Hong Kong" and posted a message, which Jess saw. She got in touch with her friend Jin, who had room in her apartment to accommodate two guests. Jess sent us an e-mail, which we received after landing in Hong Kong, offering directions to a meeting place and a phone number. Harry and I could have dug through Jess’s list of friends to read up on Jin, but instead we trusted that Jess would not lead us astray(走上邪路).
After the girls get to the bar, the four of us go to a rooftop bar, then a club, and finally head back to Jin’s apartment. Over the next three days, the girls teach us how to use the public-transportation system and give us directions to popular tourist destinations.
To outsiders like, say, my parents, it may be hard to understand why Jin would agree to have two strangers stay at her place, or why we are even trying to couch-surf when hostels are cheap and plentiful in this part of the world. It is because couch surfing isn’t just a means of accommodation; it is an entirely new way to travel. You get to see the world through local residents, not hotel gatekeepers or guidebooks. You get to step outside your comfort zones. But what is most profound about the whole experience is the trust that naturally exists. Jin, for instance, gives us a key to her place upon arrival, a common CouchSurfing custom that helps explain why sociologists at Stanford University are now studying the site and its ability to efficiently create trust.
While cultural enrichment and adventure are almost a CouchSurfing guarantee, comfort is not. Jin’s guest mattress is not quite a quarter of an inch thick, the shower is too complicated for Harry or me to figure out, and the apartment is an eighth-floor walk-up. But it’s a tradeoff surfers like me are happy to make.
Which of the following is true about the friend of the author’s mother?
选项
A、She got much help from CouchSurfing.com for her last trip.
B、She needed company to distract her from missing her son.
C、She became a member of CouchSurfing.com last autumn.
D、She decided to accommodate travelers in her home for free.
答案
D
解析
根据第1段第2句可知CouchSurfing.com上的屋主提供的住宿是免费的,再结合第3段第1句提到的关于作者妈妈的朋友的细节可以推断D正确。本题最具干扰性的是B,原文只提到了作者妈妈的朋友在儿子去上大学后,想给生活增添点excitement,但由原文无法得知她是因为“思念儿子”才这么做的,答题时不要凭主观判断。
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