2016.6《英语(二)》作业题(一).doc

《英语(二)》作业题（一） （课程代码：00015） 一、阅读判断 Booking Online and Saving the Environment When you are looking to book a holiday, it is unlikely that you will think about how green your booking decision is, but it is definitely something that should be taken into consideration. By “green” we are of course talking about the impact on the environment. When looking to book a holiday, you will probably find that you are faced with two main decisions. The first is to go into a travel agency, pick up a stack of brochures half the size of a person read through them and go back with just the one and book with the travel agents directly or over the phone. The second is to miss out the shops and brochures altogether and go on to the Internet. The Internet holds many advantages over the high street travel agents, the main one being convenience. You can go online to look at holidays at any time of the day, whether it is in that 20 minutes before work starts in the morning, half an hour at your desk at lunchtime or even at home on your laptop in front of the television at night. There are no time constrains to going online, while the travel agents are usually massively busy at times when people can actually go, i.e. Lunch hours or at the weekend. You could use the telephone but you wouldn’t be able to see the pictures or all the details of the holidays, so you would probably be sent a brochures anyway. There are websites on the Internet that make shopping for holiday deals much easier. These websites are known as price comparison websites. Icelolly, Travel Supermarket and Deal Checker are examples of some of the best known price comparison sites to look for cheap holiday deals, and they essentially search through lots of different tour operators so that you don’t have to. The results are then displayed on one page from which you can book, meaning that you don’t even need a lot of time to do this. The contrast with the travel agencies id that you probably have to take two trips, with