Questions 25 to 28 are based on the following passage:
Hostel buildings vary from cottage to castle. Most have been adapted to hostel use though some have been specially built for the purpose. As it is impossible to put identical facilities into such a wide range of buildings, hostels have been divided into four grades so that members pay an overnight fee roughly corresponding to the facilities provide. Nevertheless, whatever the architectural differences, all hostels offer accommodation with the following facilities.
Sleeping In dormitories normally with 2-tier beds. Mattresses, blankets and pillows are provided but you take your own sheet, sleeping bag or hire a freshly laundered at the hostel.
Washing. Washing facilities are provided, and at hostels where stated there are also baths or showers. You provide your own toilet articles including soap and towel.
Common Room. All hostels have a common room. At some hostels this also serves as a dining-room.
Meals. At most hostels, hot meals can be provided by the warden. (The Hostel Details state where this is not the case.) Meals cannot be guaranteed unless paid for in advance: Lunch packets should also be booked in advance whenever possible: it is easier to provide appetizing fare when the warden knows beforehand how many lunch packets will be required. (Please note that lunch packets do not include any drinks.) Breakfast is usually cereal or porridge and a cooked dish followed by bread and marmalade(果酱) and tea. Evening meal is a 3-course meal usually consisting of soup, a meat course, a sweet or pudding and tea. A number of hostels now have a cafeteria service or provide snack meals.
Members’ Kitchen. At all hostels except some temporary hostels there are facilities for members to cook their own meals, including cooking points, pots and pans. There is no charge for the use of these facilities.
Small Store. Where the Hostel Details state that there is a small store it means there are sufficient foodstuffs on sale to enable self-cookers to prepare a meal. The following list of a typical small store gives you a good idea of what you can buy, though every small store may not necessarily offer you these exact items. If ordered in advance: milk, bread, potatoes, margarine. Without ordering in advance: tins of beans and/or spaghetti, soup (or packets), condensed or evaporated milk, meat or meat pudding, fish, vegetables, fruit, steamed puddings. Small jars of jam and marmalade. Small packets of tea, coffee, sugar and corn-flakes or other cereal. Matches. Chocolate. Packets of crisp bread or oat-cakes and dehydrated potato powder.
Cutlery and crockery(are supplied whether you have meals provided or prepare your own.
25. The price of a night’s accommodation
A. Is related to the kind of building in which members stay.
B. Varies according to the region.
C. Is the same in all hostels.
D. Depends on standards of convenience and comfort.
26. People spending a night in a hostel
A. Have to use a sheet sleeping bag.
B. Are provided with a free sheet sleeping bag.
C. Have to bring their own sheet sleeping bag.
D. Must use only a newly washed sheet sleeping bag.
27. Meals in hostels
A. May be available in the evening to those who arrive early enough.
B. Are provided three times a day
C. Have to be booked in advance.
D. Are cooked only for hostellers who arrive before 6 p. m.
28. All hostels provide
A. Plates, knives and forks.
B. Certain kinds of foods in packets.
C. Bread and milk for self-cookers.
D. Tins of beans and of soup.