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1. Kinds of hotels in the United States

Places to stay for a short time may be called hotels, hostels, motels or motor hotels, inns, lodges or resorts.  

1.Hostels, also referred to as youth hostels, are often for students 

   working away from home. 

2.Motels have plenty of parking space and are usually near a freeway 

   or highway. 

3.Inns are usually like motels. 

4.Lodges and resorts, or resorts hotels, are in the mountains, 

   on the coast, or near lakes.

2. Kinds of beds:

Beds go by many different names. Starting with the smallest, there aresingle, twin, double, queen and king size ones. 

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重点词汇跟读

1. lodge  

n. a small house or hotel where people stay 小旅馆

v. to live in someone else's house for only a short  time 寄宿，暂住

e.g.  They went to a shooting lodge in Scotland for the weekend.

        (他们去了苏格兰的一个狩猎小屋度周末。)

       He had arranged for me to lodge with his daughter and son-in-law.

       (他已经安排了我寄宿在他女儿和女婿家。)

2. facility

n. equipment, buildings that are provided for a particular activity or 

    purpose 设施，场所

e.g.  She had no cooking facilities in her room.（他房间没有烹饪设备。）

           Only six countries had the facilities and know how to produce               advanced  weapon systems of this kind.

           (只有六个国家有那些设备并且知道如何生产这类先进的武器系统。）

3. accommodate 

v. to provide people with a place to live or stay 为...提供住宿或食宿

e.g.  They can't accommodate guests at the moment.

        （现在他们不能给客人们提供住宿。）

          They have not given up hope of finding financial support 

       to accommodate  these people properly.

         (他们还没有放弃希望寻找财政资助去妥善解决这些人的食宿。）

4. note

 v. become aware of   注意到

 e.g.  Please note that this bill must be paid within ten days.

        （请注意这个账单需要在十天内付清。）

         His audience, I noted with regret, were beginning to look bored.

          （很遗憾，我注意到他的观众开始厌烦了。）

5. lounge

n. room in a hotel, club, etc. where people sit and relax 休息室，客厅

e.g. In the lounge of the hotel, drinks are usually more expensive 

      than in other places.（旅馆休息室的饮料价格通常比其它地方的贵。）

      We stayed in the lounge for about two hours, talking about the 

     people and things we remembered  at school.

      （我们在休息室呆了两个小时，谈论着我们上学时候的人和事。）

6. emergency

n. an unexpected and difficult or dangerous situation 紧急情况

e.g. These bells are supposed to be used only in emergencies. 

      （be supposed to do: 应该）

          (这些铃应该只在紧急情况下被使用。)

         The plane made an emergency landing. （这架飞机做出了紧急迫降。）

7. apologize

v. to say one is sorry, as for a fault or for causing pain 道歉

   （apologize to sb. for sth.)

e.g. I apologize to her for stepping on her foot. 

    (我由于踩到她的脚而向她道歉。）

        He should apologize to the chairman for arriving late.   

       (他应该为晚到而向董事长道歉。)

8. inconvenience 

n. a state of difficulty when things don’t suit one 不方便   

   （in+convenience=inconvenience)

e.g.  It causes a lot of inconvenience when buses don't come.

       (公共汽车不能来的时候，会造成很多不便。)

         All that travel will be a great inconvenience to me.

       (所有的旅行都会给我带来很大的不便。）

9. lack

n. shortage, absence 短缺，缺乏

v. to be without, not have enough of 没有， 缺乏

e.g.  His department was shut down for lack of funds.

    （他的部门由于资金短缺而关闭了。）

        Large masses of people lack the necessities of life.    

    （很多人缺少生活必需品。）

10. additional

a. extra 另外的， 附加的

e.g. This was an additional proof of his ignorance.   

       （这是证明他无知的又一个证据。）

        This problem is additional to their major financial anxieties.

       （除了他们主要的经济焦虑问题外，这是他们的另一个问题。）

11. jot

v. to write quickly, especially without preparation 简单记下， 匆匆写下

e.g.  I jotted down the name of the book that he was talking about.

     （我赶快写下了他在谈论的书名。）

          Let me jot down your telephone number.

     （让我赶快写下你的电话号码。）

词汇综合练习

1. 单词匹配

2. 选词填空

Fill in all the blanks with the following words. 

Change the forms where necessary.

   

jot	lack	inconvenience	emergency
note	facility	accommodate