单选题   Para. 1 Iceland has discovered the secret to a booming tourist industry: First have a mammoth financial implosion, then an enormous volcanic explosion.
    Para. 2 The collapse of the Icelandic krona after the 2008 financial crisis transformed this Arctic island packed with 35 active volcanoes into a top destination by making it cheap for visitors.
    Para. 3 ①Two years later, Eyjafjallajokull erupted, spewing thick ash clouds into European skies. ②Millions of passengers were grounded for days and airlines suffered financial losses. ③But the explosion put Iceland on the map. ④The foreign news media descended on the island, beaming images around the world of spectacular landscapes, even as journalists struggled to pronounce the volcano's name.
    Para. 4 ①'Iceland has been saved by the crash and the eruption,' said Fridrik Palsson, who owns Hotel Ranga, a luxury resort just 19 miles from the slopes of Eyjafjallajokull, the 16-letter volcano that is often shortened to E-16 by foreigners. ②'I have never seen anything take off so fast,' he said.
    Para. 5 ①The combined effect of the catastrophes has been an invasion on a scale possibly unseen since Vikings raided the island hundreds of years ago. ②Tourists are expected to outnumber the local population of 330,000 by seven to one next year, according to official data. ③By comparison, last year visitors to France outnumbered the French by two to one.
    Para. 6 Tourism is now the island's biggest industry, taking over from fishing and aluminum smelting, much as the financial sector did in the years before the crash.
    Para. 7 ①Mr. Palsson, who used to sell Iceland as a place to see the Northern Lights, employs an astronomer in his hotel. ②He has also invested in three expensive telescopes that are powerful enough for guests to see the rings on Saturn or the fuzzy glow of a distant dying star.
    Para. 8 ①Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, looks like a Scandinavian version of Singapore: compact, clean, orderly, and rich. ②Streets are lined with Crayola-color houses and Mercedes cars. ③Chic coffeehouses sell kale-and-date sandwiches, and play Ethiopian jazz. ④Restaurants offer inventive Nordic cuisine using local ingredients like puffin and shark,
    Para. 9 ①The 101, a boutique hotel that was once an exclusive hangout for bankers (101 is also the city's richest postal code), is now filled with tourists. ②In a possible dig at the hotel's former denizens, a sculpture of what looked like a gray-suited banker hung on one wall, with a cryptic instruction, 'Disconnect the battery, remove the rear hood and hinge brackets,' inscribed beneath it.
    Para. 10 ①Tourists come from as far as Hong Kong. ②They chase the Northern Lights. ③They scale glaciers. ④They dive in the Arctic Circle with puffins, go horseback riding or take helicopter tours listening to ethereal, whale-like sounds by the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. ⑤Fans of 'Game of Thrones' flock to filming locations around the island, some, apparently, genuinely in search of Wildlings.