O ne of the quickest to comment was Karenet from Ottawa, who said: “Locked myself in the bathroom of ferry cabin between Bari and Greece. Luckily it was only for about 10 minutes but I was really worried I would be stuck for the entire 15 hours.”
“After I escaped, I determined to share my four-bed cabin with two Americans who only paid for a seat. I did it to be nice but mostly so they could save me if I got stuck again”.
Another wrote: “I had a room in Slovenia where you walked in. There was a hall and then a second door to the room. As I was walking into the room, a bee flew at me.”
“I screamed, turned and ran, shut the door and locked myself in the room with the bee who had followed me”.
After revealing he had been chased by an ostrich (鸵鸟) around a lakeside viewing platform in Patagonia, Samwoolfe1 revealed how he found himself lost and alone in Mexico when he “got on the wrong bus in Mexico due to a language barrier”.
Standing out as a tourist, Johnny Garisch from South Africa made an obvious mistake.
He wrote: “I paid $50 to get two bags wrapped in plastic at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (Lusaka, Zambia). They added a 0 because they could tell I was lack of awareness about what the exchange rate was.”
28. Which of the following ca n best replace the word “dumb” in Paragraph 1？
A. small  B. terrible
C. silly  D. common
29. Karenet offered his cabin to the Americans mainly because he wanted       .
A. to show friendship
B. to have mercy on them
C. to find someone for company
D. to protect himself in case of danger
30. How much should Johnny Garisch have paid for the bags?
A. $5.  B. $50.   C. $55.  D. $ 500.
31. What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Dangers in travelling 
B. Necessary adventures 
C. The unexpected on journey
D. The unforgettable experiment
D
A technology company is developing a lie detector app for smartphones that could be used by parents, teachers  and internet daters.
The app measures blood flow in the face to assess whether or not you are telling the truth. Its developers say that it could be used for daters wanting to see if somebody really is interested in them.
Parents could use it on their children to see if they are lying and teachers could work out which of their pupils are truthful.
The app is being developed by Toronto startup NuraLogix and the software is called Transdermal Optical Imaging.
The idea is that different human emotions create different facial blood flow patterns that we have no control over. These patterns change if we are telling the truth or telling a lie.
Using footage from the smartphone camera, the software will see the changes in skin colour and compare them to standardized results.
A study found that anger was associated with more blood flow and redness while sadness was associated with less of both.
Kang Lee, who has been researching the field for 20 years, said that the lie detector test will let you find out the truth “non-invasively, and remotely, and sometimes it can be covertly”.
He said: “It could be very useful, for example, for teachers. A lot of our students have math anxiety but th ey do not want to tell us, because that’s embarrassing.”
Lee added that the technology would not replace lie detectors used in a court of law. He said: “They want the accuracy to be extremely high, like genetic tests, so a one-in-a-million error rate.”
“Our technique won’t be able to achieve an extremely high accuracy level, so because of that I don’t think it’s useful for the courts.”
He added that it will be a few years before the dating app is available to consumers.
32. How does the app work?
A. By discovering the expression on the face.
B. By analyzing the blood flow in the face.
C. By measuring one’s blood pressure.
D. By checking the words one says.
33. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A. The app is reliable.
B. Our motions are colorful.
C. The idea of the app is interesting.
D. People have different facial blood patterns.
34. To whom can the app apply?
A. A user of the latest iphone.
B. A person in a job interview.
C. A consumer buying something.
D. A student working at a math problem.
35. What can we learn about the app?
A. It works as a lie detector.
B. It needs time to be put to use.
C. It matches genetic tests in accuracy.
D. It proves to be useful for the courts.
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