阅读理解。
After staying in Beijing, it was time to go to Shanghai. So I decided to take the train to Shanghai and stop
halfway at Tai'an for a day to break up the trip and climb Mount Tai. The train arrived in the city at 10 pm.
It was late and I was tired. I started to walk around the city to look for a hotel, but I couldn't find a reasonable(合理的) one. Something was strange. There were so many Chinese tourists walking somewhere. I finally
followed them to see what all the excitement was about. As it turned out, they were all climbing the mountain
to reach the top by sunrise. What a crazy idea!
I later found out it was the thing to do, so having no luck with hotels, I decided I had better join them. And
maybe because of the dark, I didn't have to pay for any entry fees (费). Of course the first thing was to find if
the mountain had a wall around it. Of course it did. And the second, it had a paved (用砖铺的) path and road
all the way up to the top. Anyway, I ran up the mountain and made it to the top by about 4:30 am. I relaxed a
little and watched the sunrise. Nothing was special. Everyone was cheering so I guessed it was worth it.
1. The writer took a trip to Mount Tai ______.
A. from Shanghai
B. by plane from Beijing
C. on his way to Shanghai
D. in his dream at night
2. When did he get to the city of Tai'an?
A. 9 pm.
B. 10 pm.
C. 11 pm.
D. I don't know.
3. Why did the writer climb the mountain at night? Because ______
A. he liked to walk at night.
B. he could pay half of the fees at night.
C. the Chinese tourists told him to follow them.
D. he hadn't found a suitable hotel.
4. What does the underlined"a crazy idea" refer to?
A. That the write got to the tain station at 10 pm.
B. That the tourists climbed the mountain at night to reach the top by sunrise.
C. That there were no suitable hotels in such a famous place
D. That people in Tai'an work all the time without sleeping at night.
5. The possible title of the passage is "_______".
A. A trip to Mount Tai.
B. No hotel to stay in.
C. The famous place between Beijing and Shanghai.
D. Why do the tourists climb Mount Tai at night?
