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Kentucky Horse Park is in Lexington, Kentucky. It was built as a showplace for all kinds of horses.
Many special events and contests are held here throughout the year. There is no other place like it. There are miles of trails for riding. Visitors may ride around the park.
Visitors can see a 20-minute color film. The film includes a race, horse-show jumping, and a polo match.
One of the buildings is the International Museum of the Horse. Here visitors learn about horses from ancient days to the present time. Photographs, posters, and display cases interest horse-lovers. Visitors can get even more information from a computer.
In a walking tour visitors see how a real horse farm works. They see them being fed. They see them getting new shoes. Kentucky Horse Park has the worlds longest horse barn.
If you get a chance to visit it, you may stay at any one of the 263 campsites you like.
Answer the questions.
1. Complete the sentence with a word from the passage.
The price ____ both house and furniture.
2. Visitors go to the Kentucky Horse Park ____.
A. only in the spring B. only in the summer
C. only in the fall D. throughout the year
3. Visitors can learn about ____.
A. different types of horses B. prize-winning horses
C. workhorses D. Kentucky Horse Park circus (馬戏团) horses
4. Kentucky Horse Park would be popular among ____.
A. young children B. sports man
C. experienced (有经验的) riders D. all horse lovers
5. Answer the following questions.
(1) Why do parents take their children to the Kentucky Horse Park?
(2) Where can visitors learn about horses from ancient times to the present?