旅游英语选读2009年1月真题试题及答案解析（00837）

Passenger transportation, whether on land, over the water, or in the air is the lifeblood of the tourism industry. Water transportation was the first mode of transportation to move travelers rapidly over long distances, but many other modes have evolved to meet time and distance requirements.Travelers have the choice of plying the waves, riding the rails, cruising the highways, or soaring through the skies. Which one they choose will depend on where they are going, their budget, and the amount of flexibility they desire.

Travel and tourism has become a strategic industry in China’s development toward a “socialist market economy.” A decade of development has yielded both positive experiences and hard lessons. Our country is still probing better ways of developing a strong travel and tourism industry which can compete successfully in its regional and global markets. Our country, therefore, faces both opportunities and challenges in developing its tourism to the next level. Our tourism has a bright future, although it will require arduous efforts to develop it effectively. The opportunities and challenges that our country faces are discussed, and the strategies are identified as recommendations for future development.

世界旅游组织(全称)

烹调艺术

奖励旅游

价值观

生态平衡

净逆差

无价格弹性

旅游动机

办理签证

gross domestic product (GDP)

宴会设施

from boom to bust

leisure travel by retired people

catch the first available plane

multi-stopover independent tours

health hazard

a wilderness park

provide a truly global network

a buoyant level of tourism

Swimmers from many nations are ________ each other for the first place.

international hotel chains

The date of our trip to the South ________ my firm’s vacation schedule.

They have ________ ancient classics ________ four books.

His stomach trouble ________ eating too much.

Last year modern hotels ________ like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

The committee ________ all its business in an hour.

The number of visitors to that country ________ six million last year.

These desks and seats can ________ the height of any child.

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A trained dog can ________ a guide to a blind person.

I broke him of his bad habit before it could ________.

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In England everything is the other way round.

On Sunday on the Continent even the  26   person puts on his best suit, tries to27respectable, and at28time the life of the country becomes gay and cheerful; in England even the richest Lord or motor-manufacturer dresses29some peculiar rags, does not shave, and the country becomes dull and dreary. On the Continent there is one30which should be avoided —— the weather; in England if you do not31the phrase “Lovely day, isn’t it?” at least32a day, you are33a bit dull. On the Continent Sunday papers34on Monday; in England —— a country of strange oddities —— they appear on Sunday. On the Continent people use a fork35—— it were a shovel; in England they turn it upside down and push36——including peas —— on top of it.On the Continent stray cats37individually on their merits —— some are loved, some are only38; in England they are universally worshipped, as in39Egypt. On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table40 .

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What is the author’s attitude toward tourism?

The purpose of the passage is to point out that ________.

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The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other’s country at a moderate cost. What was once the ‘grand tour’, reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody’s grasp. The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of. But What’s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other?

Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a nursed, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way. At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer quarters of the inhabitants are temporarily reestablished on the island of Corfu. Blackpool is recreated at Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips.

The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes. We don’t see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are. You can test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, native. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives actually act as barriers. So when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm your preconceptions. You come away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression that, say, ‘Anglo-Saxons are hypocrites’ or that ‘Latin peoples shout a lot’. You only have to make a few foreign friends to understand how absurd and harmful national stereotypes are. But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?

Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. Wild generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact. That all people are human. We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.

Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?

Which of the following is true of the grand tour nowadays?

According to the author, the national stereotype of Anglo-Saxons is that ________.

British Midland is mentioned to ________.

The purpose of the last paragraph is to ________ .

The railway Brussels route is brought forth to show that ________.

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If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that fly the world’s busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands.

The Eurostar train service linking the UK and French capitals via the Channel Tunnel is winning the customers in increasing numbers. In late May, it carries its one millionth passengers, having run only a limited service between London, Paris and Brussels since November 1994, starting with two trains a day in each direction to Paris and Brussels. By 1997, the company believes that it will be carrying 10 million passengers a year, and continue to grow from there.

From July, Eurostar steps its service to nine trains each way between London and Paris, and five between London and Brussels. Each train carries almost 800 passengers, 210 of them in first class.

The airlines estimate that they will initially lose around 15% to 20% of their London-Paris traffic to the railways once Eurostar starts a full service later this year, with 15 trains a day each way. A similar service will start from London to Brussels. The damage will be limited, however, the airlines believe, with passenger numbers returning to previous levels within two to three years.

In the short term, the damage caused by the 1 million people-level traveling between London and Paris and Brussels on Eurostar trains means that some air services are already suffering. Some of the major carriers say that their passenger numbers are down by less than 5% and point to their rivals --- particularly Air France --- as having suffered the problems. On the Brussels route, the railway company had less success, and the airlines report anything from around a 5% drop to no visible decline in traffic.

The airlines’ optimism on returning traffic levels is based on historical precedent. British Midland, for example, points to its experience on Heathrow Leeds Bradford service which saw passenger numbers decrease by 15% when British Rail electrified and modernized the railway line between London and Yorkshire. Two years later, travel had risen between the two destinations to the point where the airline was carrying record numbers of passengers.

The phrase “have a fight on their hands” (Para. 1) probably means “ ________ ”.

In more recent times, it was the ________ themselves who developed the first air package tours.

The airlines are confident in the fact that ________.

Since May 1,1995, leisure time over the two-day weekend ________ urban residents’ demand for domestic travel and tourism.

________ may form an impenetrable barrier to genuine local contact and this limitation may lead to mutual misunderstanding.

Only in the case of “special interest tours”, the cultural exchange may take the form of _______ group trips to a concert, museums or art galleries.

________ played an important role in the early history of hospitality.

Owing to their desire for greater ________ , changes in the life-style of the young also threaten the traditional forms of holiday accommodation.

The Chinese government ________ the development of the domestic tourism industry as a very important means of ________ currency from circulation.

Often the tourism industry ________ for offering low wages but in these areas there may be no alternative jobs available.

The removal of barriers to trade and travel will definitely enhance China’s position as a country for financial ________ , international business, and business and leisure travel.

Britain had its ________ tour on the train ________ by Thomas Cook in 1841.

The WTO defines a domestic ________ is a visitor traveling in his country of residence for any of the reasons given for tourists, but who stays less than ________ hours at the destination.

Tourism is an ________ product which customers are obliged to purchase without having the opportunity to inspect it.

The China National Tourism Administration was established in ________.

The head of the housekeeping department heads the numerically largest departments in the hotel, ________ ,members come into direct contact with the guests.

Tourism comprises the activities of persons traveling outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for business, ________ and other purposes.