旅游英语选读2014年4月真题试题及答案解析（00837）

Many of the. potentially greatest benefits of tourism attach equally to both hosts and visitors.In any cross-cultural exchange, there are opportunities for mutual education and the breaking down of cultural barriers. Even within countries, particularly large countries like the United States, tourism increasingly creates contacts among people of widely varying backgrounds. Another educational benefit of tourism has been the growth of interest in learning foreign languages. Jobs in the tourism industry often require that employees be able to speak a second or third language in order to serve tourists.

Domestic tourism consists of leisure and business travel activities conducted by citizens within their own country. Domestic tourism inevitably grows in response to a country’s economic development and rising living standards. Travel and tourism, as a socioeconomic behavior, is very closely related to advances in the economy and culture of a society. Like many other socio-cultural and economic activities, travel and tourism follows the law of self-development, moving from lower level development to higher level development and extending from domestic travel to international travel. Travel and tourism is a form of modem consumer behavior. The realization of one’s desire to travel depends not only on discretionary money and leisure time, but also on many complex social and political factors, including the social stability of the destination.

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本国居民旅游市场

年度大会

常规环境

商业压力

面向出口的商务活动

住宿消费

家庭暑假市场

出租飞机服务

根深蒂固的传统

psychic satisfactions

outstanding accomplishment

annual average income

environmentally sound vacations

rudimentary support facilities

word of mouth recommendation

leading chains

a truly global network

profit-making cooperation

Whenever they are in public, he always ______ the group head.

highly fragmented tourism industry

It sounds as if you ______ this theory ______ thin air.

This area ______ the Oriental Bermuda Triangle among the fishermen.

The small country ______ heavily ______ its tourism industry.

Good service ______ the attitude of the management and all the staff.

It is reported that a good case for moving to a new site ______ by the municipality administration.

Jan ______ the African Affairs Bureau before I was informed.

Most of the difficulties ______ poor workmanship.

Jim’s anxiety ______ his promotion at the hotel.

The new regulations ______ these well-run private universities ______ greater power to make their own decisions.

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Which of the following statements about Dam Square is NOT true according to the passage?

The Great Exhibition held in London in 1851 was probably the first show to be called a world fair. Since then there have been 31 universal exhibitions and many cities26to have a world fair. In 1928 the International Bureau of Expositions was founded in Paris to co-ordinate these events and ensure that there is only one each year. There are various and interlinked objectives27holding a world fair. The stated objectives include encouraging trade, increasing the visibility of a city and country, developing tourism,28economic development and increasing employment, stimulating the re-use of land and29improvements, the celebration or a past event, and the entertainment of the masses,30the often unstated one of obtaining31funds from the higher levels of government. The32motive for holding a world fair is to33the city, but as well as selling the city, there is also the selling of ideas. Most expos are linked in some way to the notion of the progress of civilization or modernity. Not34, Expo 92 in Seville, Spain, had the35of discovery. Other themes include education and international understanding. The36city usually prepares a special site for the event37new buildings and structures of hoped-for architectural distinction and image changing ability are erected. Early examples38London’s Crystal Palace and Paris’s Eiffel Tower and a more recent one is Seattle’s Space Needle. These structures will remain a39legacy to the area, as will any general infrastructure put in place. The fair itself usually contains exhibitions of both arts and manufactures, with pavilions40also by foreign nations. World fairs usually last between five and seven months, but sometimes they last for a whole year.

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The word “poignant” in the last paragraph Line 1 means ______.

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What mode of transportation is NOT suggested by the author in the text?

How many museums can tourists visit in Amsterdam?

In the last sentence of the passage, the word “they” refer to ______.

The paragraph following the passage most likely discusses ______.

According to the passage the price system is related primarily to ______.

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Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a very complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad(极大数量)of services, including labor, professional transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.

If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or in other words, that price is the money value of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, however, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment to be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that are to be appried to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.

what is the best title for the passage?

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a factor in the complete understanding of price?

The first task of a tour brochure is to______.

______ are a fundamental component in the development of tourism.

An incredible ______ of landscapes and cultures stretches across the vastness of China.

Researchers have found that spatial ______ of tourism are closely linked to the availability, accessibility and the nature of tourism resources.

The social significance stems from the greater ______ of other cultures, institutions, ways of life and social structures.

Any ______ tourist movement increases air pollution from jet aircraft, car and pleasure-boat exhaust fumes.

Recent promotions, by Amtrak have emphasized the ______ benefits of taking the train.

Holiday Inn ______ innovations that were revolutionary for the times but which subsequently became standards for chain operations.

Hotels vary not only in size but in ______, in type of clientele, and in scope of activities.

Owing to ___________ of the retail travel business, two factors become paramount: good management and good service.

Travel by air has become safe, comfortable, rapid and above all ___________.

Business travel requires individual arrangements and thus involves ___________.

According to the WTO, a domestic excursionist is a visitor traveling in his country of residence who stays less than one ___________ at the destination.

New tourism is ___________ of “large-scale packaging of nonstandardized leisure services at competitive prices to suit the demands of tourist.

Business people see tourism as an opportunity to make a profit by ___________ the goods and services.