Question

【题目】

Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have something to worry about.

Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study, cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with their “host parents”, and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family type of living at a low cost.

The advantages, however, have not prevented host families form worrying. On one hand, some host families are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now generally single and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family accommodation is communication practice. One the other hand, students’ expectations have risen. They are becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-economic groups in their own countries.

To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of service. They are trying to making living conditions better, including broadband Internet service, private bathroom, and access to plenty of hot water for long showers. They are also providing students with structured family activities.

It is believed that host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with language travel students.

Host family accommodation

Theme	Host families are improving the accommodation 【1】__________
【小2题】 __________	Language study	Possibly becoming 【3】 ________________
	Cultural communication	Communicating with 【4】 _________________ Knowing the local way of life, people and culture
	Cost of 【5】 _____________	Being least expensive sometimes
【6】__________	Loss of selling point	Hosts’ having less time for students
	Rise in 【7】 _____________	Students’becoming more demanding
【8】__________	Service quality improvement	【9】 _________________
		Organizing structured family activities
【10】 _________	Host family accommodation will keep the popularity vote with students.

Answer 1

【答案】【1】quality

【2】Advantages

【3】Faster

【4】Hosts

【5】Living

【6】Worries/ Problems

【7】Expectations

【8】Efforts

【9】Bettering/Improving

【10】Conclusion

【解析】【1】quality 点拨 由第一段第二句及第四段第一句可知。

【2】Advantages 点拨 由第二段第一句可知。

【3】faster 点拨由第二段第二句可知。

【4】hosts 点拨 由第二段第三句可知。

【5】 living 点拨 由第二段第一句可知。

【6】Worries/ Problems 点拨 由第三段第一句中“worrying”及下文内容可归纳出答案。

【7】expectations由第三段第四句可知。

【8】Efforts 点拨 由第四段第一句中“making efforts”及下文内 容可知。 【小【9】Bettering/Improving 点拨 由第四段第二句可知该处要用表示“改善、提高”等意义的词。

【10】 Conclusion点拨 由文章结构可知。