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(1)It’s 1 a.m., and I’m in Hong Kong for the first time, sitting in a bar in
(1)It’s 1 a.m., and I’m in Hong Kong for the first time, sitting in a bar in
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(1)It’s 1 a.m., and I’m in Hong Kong for the first time, sitting in a bar in the Lan Kwai Fong district. I’m waiting for two girls I met on the Internet to show up and take me to their apartment, so my friend Harry and I can stay there for free for a few nights. Having been on flights for the past 24 hours, I am worn out and nervous when they don’t arrive on time.
(2)But my faith is restored when I hear a thick Chinese accent asking, "Are you Cody?" Even though Jess and Jin are as much strangers to me as anyone else in the bar, I trust them. It seems as natural as being set up by a mutual friend, and, in a sense, that is exactly what is happening.
(3)I first learned about CouchSurfing.com last fall from my mom’s friend, who was planning on hosting travelers in her home to add a little excitement to life after her oldest son went to college. She recommended I use it for an upcoming trip to Europe.
(4)That’s how I became one of the millions of surfers who search hosts’ profiles and send requests— typically as much as a week or as little as a day before arriving in the hosts’ city—to sleep on those people’s couches or on their floor or in a spare bedroom.
(5)CouchSurfmg requests are not always accepted, as my friend and I learned about seven hours before arriving at the bar in Hong Kong. During our stay in Tokyo, I found out via e-mail that the requests I had submitted that morning to two potential hosts had both been politely declined. One host, had relatives visiting, and the other, was in Macau for the weekend.
(6)So, I quickly joined the forum "Last Minute Couch Requests: Hong Kong" and posted a message, which Jess saw. She got in touch with her friend Jin, who had room in her apartment to accommodate two guests. Jess sent us an e-mail, which we received after landing in Hong Kong, offering directions to a meeting place and a phone number. Harry and I could have dug through Jess’s list of friends to read up on Jin, but instead we trusted that Jess would not lead us astray (走上邪路).
(7)After the girls get to the bar, the four of us go to a rooftop bar, then a club, and finally head back to Jin’s apartment. Over the next three days, the girls teach us how to use the public-transportation system and give us directions to popular tourist destinations.
(8)To outsiders like, say, my parents, it may be hard to understand why Jin would agree to have two strangers stay at her place, or why we are even trying to couch-surf when hostels are cheap and plentiful in this part of the world. It is because couch surfing isn’t just a means of accommodation; it is an entirely new way to travel. You get to see the world through local residents, not hotel gatekeepers or guidebooks. You get to step outside your comfort zones. But what is most profound about the whole experience is the trust that naturally exists. Jin, for instance, gives us a key to her place upon arrival, a common CouchSurfing custom that helps explain why sociologists at Stanford University are now studying the site and its ability to efficiently create trust.
(9)While cultural enrichment and adventure are almost a CouchSurfing guarantee, comfort is not. Jin’s guest mattress is not quite a quarter of an inch thick, the shower is too complicated for Harry or me to figure out, and the apartment is an eighth-floor walk-up. But it’s a tradeoff surfers like me are happy to make. [br] Why did the author have to post a message on "Last Minute Couch Requests: Hong Kong"?
选项
A、Two potential Tokyo hosts had declined his requests.
B、He had been rejected by two potential Hong Kong hosts.
C、He had stayed in Tokyo for too long a time.
D、His previous request had been sent out too late.
答案
B
解析
第6段第1句开头的So表明原因在上一段提及。第5段最后两句表明有可能向作者提供住宿的两位potential hosts都婉拒了作者的借宿要求,故应选B。A和C都提到了Tokyo,但Tokyo只是作者待过的地方,在那里,作者通过电子邮件查到他在香港的住宿请求被拒绝,可见,A中的Tokyo hosts说法错误;C、D没有原文依据。
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