Read the texts quickly. Match titles (1-4) with texts (A-C). There is one extra title. (Đọc nhanh các văn bản. Nối tiêu đề (1-4) với văn bản (A-C). Có một tiêu đề bị thừa.)
1. The art of travelling light
2. Non-stop traveller
3. On the road to nowhere
4. Follow your dreams
‘Travelling’ online
If you haven’t got time to go travelling, you can still enjoy it by following a traveller’s experiences on their blog.
Here are three of the most interesting and unusual globetrotters online!
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At the age of seventeen, Alex Chacón set off from his home in El Paso, Texas and went for a motorbike ride. Alex’s thirty-day tour of the USA took in California, Washington and Florida and gave Alex an aim in life: to travel the world on his motorbike.
Although Alex usually travels alone, he has shared his experiences on his blog. While travelling, Alex videos himself doing all sorts of activities against breathtaking backgrounds of remote jungles, deserts and mountains. On one trip, he filmed himself by moving in a 360° circle so that all the famous landmarks would be included.
During Alex’s motorcycle expeditions, he regularly stops to take part in volunteering projects at orphanages that he comes across on his route. Furthermore, he uses his blog to raise donations for orphans.
Alex is now planning to cross Africa, Europe and Asia. It seems that by the 5 time he’s thirty, Alex will have ridden his bike across most of the planet!
B
Dutch actress Manon Ossevoort has dreamed of travelling from Europe across Africa to the South Pole for years, and she chose a slow form of transport: a tractor.
Manon only averaged 5 km/h as she drove, but that allowed her to get to know the hospitable people in villages where she stopped over for the night. She would explain why she was going to the South Pole and ask people to follow her blog and write down their own dreams. She promised to build a snowman when she arrived at her destination and leave all their dreams inside it. The idea was popular and Manon received thousands of dreams on pieces of paper and in emails.
Finally, on 9 December 2014, Manon’s dream came true, and she pulled up in a big red tractor at the South Pole. She then built a snowman and left a time capsule inside it with all the dreams she had collected. Manon explained on her blog that when the time capsule is opened in eighty years’ time, future generations will be able to read something about our lives and our hopes for the future.
C
Have you ever travelled with no luggage? That was the question Rolf Potts aimed to answer on the ‘no-baggage challenge’. However, the task wasn’t simply a question of going off for a week to soak up the sun on a beach. Rolf had to travel 50,000 km by plane and get around eleven countries in 42 days with just the things he could carry in his pockets. Would he be able to do it?
Rolf was certainly well qualified enough to try. He was an experienced traveller who wrote a blog about budget travel. Now he planned to update it with regular reports about travelling extremely light.
His first ‘no-baggage challenge’ entry listed the items he took with him: a toothbrush and toothpaste, a small bottle of soap, a mobile phone and charger, deodorant, sunglasses, a passport, cash and a credit card. His second entry explained that he had got into the habit of washing his clothes before going to bed during his trips. By the third entry, he was really enjoying luggage-free travel.
Potts said that he would never pack any ‘just in case’ items again, because the imagined situations that they were packed for would never happen.
In one photo we can see a man sitting on his motorcycle. This method allows for exploring off-the-beaten-track locations, as suggested by the background behind the man. In a different photo, a happy woman is dressed in cold-weather gear. She must be traveling to an extreme environment like the Arctic or Antarctic which requires specialized vehicles. The last photo shows passengers storing their luggage on an airplane, a more common method of traveling.
The best method of travel depends on the context and purpose of the journey. For adventure and exploration, the motorcycle offers freedom and the ability to reach remote areas, making it an excellent choice for those seeking a unique and personal travel experience. However, for convenience, efficiency, and the ability to cover long distances quickly, airplane travel is the best method, especially for international trips or when time is a critical factor.
Dịch:
Trong một bức ảnh có thể thấy một người đàn ông đang ngồi trên xe máy. Phương tiện di chuyển này cho phép dễ dàng đi đến những nơi hoang sơ ít người đến như nơi trong ảnh đằng sau người đàn ông. Trong một bức ảnh khác, một người phụ nữ trông rất vui vẻ trong bộ đồ chuyên dụng cho thời tiết lạnh giá. Người phụ nữ chắc hẳn đang ở một môi trường khắc nghiệt như Bắc Cực hay Nam Cực, cần có phương tiện di chuyển chuyên dụng. Bức ảnh cuối cùng là cảnh hành khách đang cất hành lý trên máy bay, một phương thức di chuyển phổ biến hơn.
Phương tiện di chuyển tốt nhất phụ thuộc vào địa hình và mục đích của chuyến đi. Đối với những chuyến phiêu lưu khám phá, xe máy mang lại sự tự do và người đi xe có thể tiếp cận vùng sâu vùng xa, là một lựa chọn tuyệt vời cho những ai tìm kiếm trải nghiệm du lịch độc đáo. Tuy nhiên, để thuận tiện và di chuyển được quãng đường dài một cách nhanh chóng hơn thì máy bay là lựa chọn tối ưu nhất, đặc biệt đối với những chuyến đi quốc tế hoặc khi thời gian là cấp thiết.
Trả lời bởi Nguyễn Việt Dũng