MS Symphony of the Seas

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答案：

2. (in) 2018

3. (the) USA / US

4. neighbourhoods

5. water(-)slide

6. surfing

7. hair(-)spray

8. art(-)work(s)

文本：

* My talk today is about the world’s largest cruise ship, the MS Symphony of the Seas. I love theidea of working on a cruise ship once I’ve finished my studies, and I think you’ll find this one reallyamazing!

The enormous ship has 18 decks, is 72.5 metres high and can accommodate a maximum ofseven thousand passengers, in addition to its 2200 crew members. Its gross weight is two 228 081tons. That’s pretty big!

The building of this huge vessel started in 2015, but it wasn’t until over a year and a half later – inJune 2017 – that it was ready to be launched, and it was a further ten months after that, in 2018,that it finally set sail with passengers on board.

When the ship finally left Barcelona in Spain, it headed off around the Mediterranean Sea. Butit only did a few trips there before moving to the USA, which is now its permanent home. Fromthere it sails on a regular basis on two routes around the Caribbean, visiting Mexico along the waybefore going home again.

The ship feels very spacious – even when it has got everyone on board. There are 22 restaurants,an amazing 24 swimming pools and almost three thousand cabins. It’s enormous – and itsneighbourhoods – that’s the word they use for the zones on board – have different themes such as the Entertainment Place and the Boardwalk. Each area of the ship has some pretty incredibleattractions and there’s lots for passengers to do. There’s the AquaTheater, where you can watchhigh-diving performances, and overlooking the theatre is the ship’s water slide – the tallest there ison any ship! It’s 65 metres long and takes about thirteen seconds to go down. There’s even what’sknown as a zip line, a cable you can ride high across the ship on. That looks pretty scary, even tome!

There are sports venues and fitness centres on board, too, with a wide a choice of exerciseactivities. You can do conventional sports such as basketball and football, but if you’ve neverdone surfing before and don’t want to do it in the sea, then the sports deck has two purpose-builtsimulators, as well, which look brilliant!

There’s entertainment in the evenings, too, with a few different shows to see at the theatre. One’squite well-known – Hairspray, it’s called – maybe you’ve heard of it? And there’s one called Dareto Dream – about flying. And apart from that, at the ice-skating rink there is a show called 1977.There are comedy shows too, and an area called the Youth Zone where teenagers can hang outon their own – without adults!

What I found really interesting about the MS Symphony of the Seas is not just that it has so manythings to do, but that it appeals to people from all kinds of backgrounds – there seems to besomething for everyone. Apparently, there are more artworks than in the popular Louvre Museumin Paris, as well as over 20 000 plants in an outdoor area known as Central Park.

Maybe one day I’ll be working on a ship like this! **