When most people travel, they spend some time booking hotel rooms. However, my friend Ashley and I were not like most people many years ago. We decided that backpacking through Ireland would be more fun if we “winged it”.
Winging it, of course, meant that we’d each buy a one-way ticket to Dublin, and give ourselves ten days to get back to Bath, England, where we were enrolled in a study-abroad program. The plan was to visit Dublin, Galway, Cong, and finally end things in Belfast, where we figured we could catch a flight back to England.
Unfortunately, Ireland had other plans for us, as nothing worked out the way in which we thought it would. After getting stuck in Galway and Cong for about seven days, we finally managed to take a bus trip from Cong to Belfast. The twelve-hour bus ride started at ten in the morning, which meant that we’d arrive in the heart of Belfast at around ten at night. Of course, like all transport, the bus ran late, and we ended up in Belfast at around eleven-thirty at night. As there were a ton of hotels around the area where it dropped us off, we weren’t too worried about finding a hotel room. But hotel after hotel turned us down.
After the third hotel turned us down and the fourth one was locked up for the night, Ashley and I started to realize that we had to spend a long night sleeping on a city bench. Like militant soldiers, we slept in turn as we were worried we would get robbed. The system worked, as we were able to stay safe while catching as much sleep as we could on the bench.
From this experience, I really learnt a good lesson.
【小题1】Why did the author and his friend decide to wing it when they went to travel in Ireland? (No more than 8 words)
【小题2】What did the author and his friend do in Bath, England? (No more than 8 words)
【小题3】How long did it take the author and his friend to get to Belfast from Cong by bus? (No more than 5 words)
【小题4】Why did the author and his friend have to take turns to sleep? (No more than 8 words)
Because they felt it would be more fun.
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(答案→)Because they felt it would be more fun.
解析：文章主要讲述的是两个人在旅途中发生的故事。作者和他的一个朋友要参加一个留学计划，他们在去爱尔兰之前没有提前做好安排，到了爱尔兰之后发生了一点意外，宾馆客满，他们只好睡了在市区的长凳上。
【小题1】根据第一段“backpacking through Ireland would be more fun if we “winged it”可知，他们认为这样做更有趣，故填Because they felt it would be more fun.
【小题2】根据第二段“where we were enrolled in a study-abroad program”可知，他们参与了一个留学计划，故填They were enrolled in a study-abroad program.
【小题3】根据第三段“The twelve-hour bus ride started at ten in the morning”可知，坐汽车要花12小时，故填It took 12 hours./ 12 hours.
【小题4】根据倒数第二段“we slept in turn as we were worried we would get robbed.”可知，他们轮流睡觉是担心遇到抢劫，故填Because they were afraid they would get robbed.