Turkey’s Bodrum peninsula is different. The tourist boom in this part of
the world (1) turned some small villages into resorts yet
left neighbouring beaches undisturbed, making it quite (2)
southern France or the Spanish Coasts where few stretches of coastline
are undevelopeD． The (3) for this happy set
of circumstances is simple. For thousands of years, travel here (4)
easier by boat than by lanD．So when mass tourism arrived in the
(5) 1980s, there was no coast road for ribbon development to
follow. So the peninsula, just (6) hour from Bodrum airport,
has not become one long littoral of resort. The building
(7) new hotels has mainly been confined to places easily reached
by then relatively (8) roads. Such ease of access has made
Gumbet, near Bodrum, a busy resort, while the little fishing village of
Gumusluk, 12 miles further west and only recently reachable by (9)
, remains tranquil and undisturbeD． It’s worth
thinking carefully about location when planning a family (10)
on the peninsulA．Choose a place that is centrally located, preferably
out of earshot (11) Bodrum town’s "lively"—which means
nosy—nightlife, and you can then use (12) area’s comfortably
small scale to your advantage. Today’s new roads mean most places can
(13) reached in under an hour by taxi or the ubiquitous
dolmus-minibus. The (14) of facilities at
the Tamarisk Beach Hotel near the small village of Ortakent makes (15)
a good base. The family-run hotel—rooms and suites are in two-storey
buildings (16) by palm trees and flowers in terracotta
pots—sits above its own sandy (17) beach, shaded by tamarisk
trees and sheltered by nearby islands. The hotel is
(18) child-friendly, too. Children, from infants up to young
teenagers, can take part in a (19) of games and activities
that include tuition in windsurfing, dinghy (20) catamaran
sailing. Why does the groundwater from the north finds its way into the canyon, but the water from the south doesn’t
A．Because there are fractures in the rocks in the south. B．Because the southwest part of the underlying rock beds are a bit lower than those in the opposite direction. C．Because the pressure of the upper streams forces the water to flow in from the north and flow away from the south. D．The reason is not mentioned in the passage.