Now, young people are grabbing their passports and travel around the world on their own, not because they have no one to travel with, but because they prefer to go solo.
Kristina Wegscheider, from San Jose in California, US, first traveled unaccompanied when she was at college and believes that it is something everyone should do at least once in their life. "In high school I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing much of anything on my own, but as I have got older I've found that I love traveling on my own, especially in a country where I don't know the language. " Wegscheider has visited 46 countries spanning all seven continents.
Foreign lands can be tricky to navigate at the best of times. But with no one to help you read a map, look after you if you get ill, or lend you money if your wallet is stolen, they are challenging. This is what drives young people to go solo It is seen as character building, since going solo is a chance to prove that they can make it on their own.
Chris Richardson decided to leave his sales job in Australia to go backpacking last year. He set up a website, The Aussie Nomad, to document his adventures. He says he wished he had gone solo earlier. "Be it the people you meet, the places you visit, or the things you do, everything is off your own back and it forces you to grow as a person," said the 30-year-old. "To tackle university or a job with that kind of experience would have been a major bonus to me," he said. Richardson describes traveling alone as like "a shot in the arm," which "unleashed(释放)a better more confident person that was ready to tackle anything."
单选题 When did Kristina Wegscheider travel solo for the first time?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中的Kristina Wegscheider定位至第二段首句。由该句可知，美国加利福尼亚州的Kristina Wegscheider上大学的时候首次进行独自旅行，并认为这种经历每个人一生中至少要有一次，因此答案为B)。题干中的solo是对原文中的unaccompanied的同义转述。
单选题 What makes traveling solo challenging?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】由题干中的challenging定位至第三段第二句。该句列举了让人感到旅行具有挑战性的情况，如没有人帮你看地图，生病时没有人照顾你，钱包被偷了没人借给你钱等，由此可知C)为答案。
单选题 Why does the author say that going solo is like character building?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】由题干中的going solo和characterbuilding定位到第三段最后一句。该句提到独自旅行被认为是一种品格塑造是因为它给了人们证明自己能够自立的机会。B)是对该句的同义转述，为正确答案。
单选题 Which was the main bonus for Chris Richardson?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题考查Chris Richardson在独自旅行中的主要收获，由题干中的bonus和ChrisRichardson定位至第四段倒数第二旬。该句指出，带着那种经历去应对大学或工作中的挑战对Chris来说大有好处，因此应选择D)。
单选题 Why did Chris Richardson take traveling solo as an exciting thing?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】题干中的an exciting thing即文中的a shot in the arm，由此定位至文章末句。该句中的定语从句解释了原因——它使人得到释放，成为一个更加自信的人，从而准备应对任何问题。因此Chris Richardson认为独自旅行令人振奋的原因是它使人们变得更自信，故答案为A)。