旅游英语选读2011年10月真题试题及答案解析（00837）

The primary benefit of tourism to travelers is a measure of personal pleasure, and there seems hardly to be a tourist offering to fit every taste and individual interest. Some just want to lie on a beach. Others may seek exposure to the ants, architecture, cuisine, crafts, traditions, or lifestyle of a different culture. Others wish to visit a place of exceptional natural beauty or a location that offers specific recreation activities, or to study a particular topic. Whatever the focus "whether going white water rafting or taking an architectural tour or photographing native flowers---it is an activity chosen to bring enjoyment to the tourist.

Tourists taking holidays for educational purposes, whether to learn something or to attain new knowledge, will choose destinations appropriate for this purpose. Again the type and standard of accommodation are of secondary importance. For example, people wishing to study art, music or another skill are now accepting accommodation in universities and colleges that run such courses during the vacations. There may be a certain cachet attached to this and frequently the customers are those with limited means. They find the low costs linked with the learning aspect as representing very good value. These holidays provide a rest of a different sort, a change of interest from people's daily lives. The support services can also be rudimentary. However those who take these holidays are prepared to make their own spare time activities such as walks in the surrounding countryside, community singing at night, concerts and so on.

“旅游陷阱”

计算机预订系统

劳动密集型产业

市场预算

过境旅游者

不定期客运服务

视觉魅力

前厅经理

高速火车

会展业

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

to constantly improve tourist products

enjoy more preferential policies

rare flora and fauna

accommodation and support facilities

Tourism Income Multiplier

on study tours

Tailor made services

achieve sustainable economic growth

the theme of the tour brochures

Travel ____ us ____ a narrow mind.

We all know that his laziness ____ his failure.

A hotel must ____ customers’ benefit.

These rooms have ____ the important visitors from Thailand

A news report should ____ the facts.

Passive vacationers are seen as achieving tension relief by giving in or_______ the surrounding environment.

Car speed ____ 30 mph in most towns.

The mayor should take steps ____ the holiday rush.

They should not ____ their wishes ____ their children.

They ____ by running a small hotel a few years ago.

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A person's home is as much a reflection of his personality as the clothes he wears, the food he eats and the fiends with whom he spends his time. Depending on personality, most have in mind a(n)26home". But in general, and especially for the student or new wage earners, there are practical limitations of cash and location on achieving that idea.Cash27.in fact, often means that the only way of 28  when you leave school is to stay at home for a while until things29 . financially There are obvious30of living at home personal laundry is usually still done along with the family wash; meals are provided and there will be a well-established .31of friends to call upon. And there.is32theresponsibility for paying bills, rates, etc.On the other hand, much depends on how a family gets on Do your parents like your friends? You may love your family- -33do you like them? Are you prepared to be34when your parents ask where you are going in the evening and what time you expect to be back? If you find that you cannot manage a(n)35, and that you finally have the money to leave, how do you36 finding somewhere else to live?If you plan to stay in your home area, the possibilities are37well-known to you already. Friends and the local paper are always 38 If you are going to work in a new area, again there are the papers and the accommodation agencies, though these should be approached with39. Agencies are allowed to charge a fee, usually the40 of the first week's rent, if you take accommodation they have found for you.

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What is the authors attitude towards the future of the Antarctic?

According to the passage, what are people doing in the continent?

The most healthy climate in the world is in the Antarctic Continent because ____.

The phrase “usher” in" in Para 2 Line 8 probably means "_____ ".

When do the couple leave for their honeymoon?

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The discovery of the Antarctic not only proved one of the most interesting of all geographical adventures, but created what might be called the heroic age of Antarctic exploration". By their tremendous heroism, men such as Shakleton, Scott, and Amundsen caused a new continent toemerge from the shadows, and yet that heroic age, little more than a century old, is already passing. Modern science and inventions are revolutionizing the endurance. Future journeys into these icy wastes will probably depend on motor vehicles equipped with caterpillar traction rather than on the dogs that earlier discoverers found so invaluable and hardly comparable.

Few realize that this Antarctic continent is almost equal in size to South America, and enormous field of work awaits geographers and prospectors. The coasts of this continent remain to be accurately charted, and the mapping of the whole of the interior presents a formidable task. tothe cartographers who undertake the work. Once their labors are completed, it will be possible to prospect the vast natural resources which scientists believe will furnish one of the largest treasure hoards of metals and minerals the world has yet known, and almost inexhaustible sources of copper, coal, uranium, and many other ores will become available to man. Such discoveries will usher in an era practical exploitation of the Antarctic wastes.

The polar darkness which hides this continent for the six winter months will be defeated by huge batteries of light, and make possible the establishing of air-fields for the future inter- continental air services by making these areas as light as day. Present flying routes will be completely changed, for the Antarctic refueling bases will make flights from Australia to South America comparatively easy over the 5,00 miles journey.

The climate is not likely to offer an unsolvable problem, for the explorer Admiral Byrd has shown that the climate is possible even for men completely untainted for expeditions into those frozen wastes. Some of his parties were men who had never seen snow before, and yet he records that they survived the rigors of the Antarctic climate comfortably, so that, provided that the appropriate installations are made, we may assume that human beings from all counties could live there safely. Byrd even affirms that it is probably the most healthy climate in the world, for the intense cold of thousands of years has sterilized this continent, and rendered it absolutely germfree, with the consequences that ordinary and extraordinary sickness and diseases from which man suffers in other zones with different climates are here utterly unknown. There exist no problems of conservation and preservation of food supplies, for the latter keep indefinitely without any signs of deterioration; it may even be that later generations will come to regard the Antarctic as the natural storehouse for the whole world.

Plans are already on foot to set up permanent bases on the shores of this continent, and what so few years ago was regarded as a "dead continent" now promises to be a most active center of human life and endeavor.

What kind of metals and minerals can we find in the Antarctic?

Which of the following statements may NOT be inferred from the passage?

The reason the vicar is informed in advance of the ceremony is that ____ .

Which of the following statement is NOT true?

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In Britain arrangements for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the responsibility of the bride's family. In most cases it is mainly friends and relations of both families who are invited. But when the bride"s father is a businessman of some kind, the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social connections with clients or customers and other people whose goodwill may be of advantage to him. It is, however, the bride's mother who has the job of sending out the formal printed invitation cards.

In the case of a church wedding, the vicar of each parish in which the bride and bridegroom live is normally informed about a month in advance of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place. Anyone who may know of an existing marriage of either partner is ordered to give information about it, through this means of avoiding bigamy( 重婚 )must have been more effective in the days when people moved about the world less than they do today. Often up to a hundred or more people attend the religious service and the bride usually wears the traditional long white dress and veil, while her bridesmaids, who are often children, wear long dresses in attractive colors. This may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual.

The reception which follows may be held in a restaurant, a local hall or, when there are few guests, in the bride's own home. Refreshments are provided, a special iced wedding- cake is cut usually to the accompaniment of speeches and distributed to the guests, toasts are drunk and dancing may follow. At some point in the celebrations, the bride goes off to change into everyday clothes and then leaves the party with her husband to go on their honeymoon, the journey they will make together, often in romantic surroundings abroad.

In business tourism, ____ with an international or expert-orientated business activity was in the upper end of these figures

When_______ prices from the printer, tour operators should approach several companies, as quotations can vary substantially between printers.

China officially joined the World Tourism Organization in October ____ .

Significant changes can be expected in the next few years in the field of ____ .

The modern era of travel by water is characterized by _______performing cruising and ferrying roles.

China has numerous temples, pagodas, statues and cave carvings,_______are associated with Buddhism, Taoism and Confucius.

The departmental managers advise and help the general manager in formulation of the operating policy and______ that it is carried out.

________creates the flexibility to satisfy changing consumer needs at prices that are cost- competitive with mass-produced holidays.

Behavior is influenced by a number of things, with motives ____ only one of them.

Over the past decade the tourist industry ____ profoundly by the development of computer technology.

Most nations are specially interested in developing tourism as an ______ industry.

Owing to many other complicating factors ____ inflation, investment in tourism therefore remains ____ . it does in any other industry.

With the invention of ____ in 1853, hotels began to expand upward.

The Grand Tour is a tour of certain cities in ____ undertaken primarily for education and pleasure.

____, which is the tourism market of accommodation facilitates and attractions within a country, indicates internal tourism plus inbound tourism.