听力原文：The British enjoy the family outing. Most people choose well-known spots, or seas

听力原文： The British enjoy the family outing. Most people choose well-known spots, or seaside beaches, where they are often so crowded together that you cannot see the sand. Others choose a lonely place, where there are very few people. They may follow the tracks between the mountains and lochs and watch seals and seabirds. The British coast has many miles of cliffs. These cliffs are still quite unspoiled because any building is forbidden by law.

So the coast is most popular destination of English people for their holiday. Food in British hotels and restaurants is reasonably cheap, but rooms are not. The English people rent houses or flats for their holidays, but one of the traditional and cheapest ways of spending a summer holiday is in a boarding house. A house like this may have a card in its window advertising bed and breakfast. In seaside towns there are whole streets of houses, almost every one of which has such a notice in its window.

In recent years, several new ways of spending holiday have developed. Among them, camps. They consist usually of great numbers of small, and often quite comfortable, suburban houses, together with central dining hails, dancing halls and swimming pools. Camping holidays with tents are not so well developed in England as in France. The summer weather too often can be very unpleasant for tent-dwellers. On the other hand, caravans have become extremely popular.

The motor car, good roads and the decline in the farming population have recently encouraged town people to buy unwanted cottages in the country villages. In the past ten years the price of these houses rose so much that local people cannot buy them when they need to. Weekends at the country cottages are common even in winter, but owners often let them in summer.

The British may be conservative about many things, but they have always shown themselves very ready to enjoy new places. They have always been pioneers in traveling far away. And Englishmen were among the first to climb many of the great Alpine summits. Now each year more English men, women and children become familiar with some part of continental Europe. Many take their cars, often with tents or caravans, crossing the Channel by ferry or hovercraft or by car- carrying aeroplane. Others use travel agents' schemes for group travels and hotel booking. Some when they are away, become obsessed with shops and devote much energy to thinking about what to buy. These people struggle to convert the prices into English pounds and pence. When they get home again, they talk endlessly of these things. They boast of their bargains and at some time complain of what they were asked to pay for cups of tea.

Questions:

16. Which destination are the British least likely to choose when they plan the family outing？

17.Why do the English people traditionally spend a summer holiday in a boarding-house？

18.What new holiday habit is introduced in this talk？

19.Which of the following statements is TRUE about the recent change about the cottage？

20.According to this talk, which of the following is NOT true of the travelers on holidays in Britain？

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A．A metropolitan city.

B．Seaside beaches.

C．A mountainous area.

D．Beautiful lakes.