旅游英语选读2018年4月真题试题及答案解析（00837）

Travel agencies sell products such as a flight on an airplane, a stay in a hotel room, a view of the mountains, or a cruise on a ship. Once customers buy these products, they have them for only a short time. If travel products prove unsatisfactory, they can’t be returned, although suppliers and agencies might compensate dissatisfied customers in some way. Travel agents sell dreams to vacation and leisure travelers. A travel advertisement might show a beautiful young couple dancing in a moonlit beach. The advertisement suggests that by purchasing certain travel products travelers will experience romance, relaxation, and pleasure. The vacation may continue to exist as a wonderful memory. To business and professional travelers, travel agents sell time and convenience.

视觉污染

Before a group arrives at a hotel, a local guide should make a brief introduction of the hotel to the tourists. This introduction should include the hotel’s name, its rating, location, surroundings, facilities, functions, etc., so that the tourists could be familiar with it during their stay. Hotel services may include food and beverage services like restaurant, cafes, shops, bars, room service, housekeeping and sport services like swimming pool and tennis court. Some services like Front Desk, Money Exchange Desk and Business Center should also be introduced to tourists. No matter what you will say, please do it on coach, with your microphone, for it’s the best time for you to catch their attention when they are very curious about this strange land.

签约国

包机航班

可持续发展

国民收入

目标市场

辅助设施

旅游批发商

规模经济

地方色彩

supply and demand equilibrium

instant culture

en route

repeat business

value added tax

resort hotel

jet airliner

return on sales

long-haul and short-haul

A sense of humor ___ greatly ___ his unique personality, which is already charming enough.

empty nester

His lecture ___ two parts.

The doctor asked me not to ___ to much work.

The small town seems to have ___ a lot ___ the rapid development of tourism.

The professor ___ the lesson where he left off last time.

She ___ me ___ the care of the child.

Now the reforms provide us with every opportunity to ___ our talents ___ .

They ___ a lot of suggestions at the meeting.

We cannot afford a mistake like that. It will perhaps ___ ___ disastrous consequences.

If a wild animal is ___ a cage for a long time, it will become listless.

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We can infer from the passage that ___ .

As a physician who travels quite a lot, I spend much time on planes listening to that terrible “Is there a doctor on board?” announcement. I’ve been ___26___ only once-for a woman who had merely fainted. But the ___27___ made me quite curious about how ___28___ this kind of things happens. I wondered what I would do if met with a real midair medical emergency without access ___29___ a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment. ___30___ the New England Journal of Medicine published a study about if-flight medical events last week. I read it ___31___ interest. The study estimated that there is a sum of 30 in-flight medical emergencies on U. S. flights every day. Most of them are not ___32___ ; fainting and dizziness are the most frequent complains. 33 13% of them-roughly four a day-are serious enough to ___34___ a pilot to change course. The most common of the serious emergencies ___35___ heart trouble, strokes and breathing difficulty. Let’s face it: plane rides are stressful. For starters, cabin pressures at high altitudes (海拔)are set at roughly ___36___ they would be if you lived at 5000 to 8000 feet above sea level. Most people can put up with these pressures pretty ___37___ , but passengers with heart disease ___38___ experience chest pains due to the lack of oxygen flowing through their blood. ___39___ common in-flight problem is the so-called economy class syndrome (综合症). ___40___ happens, don’t panic.

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City of Niagara Falls ___ .

Niagara Falls ___ .

Lake Erie is ___ .

What is happening to the desert hillsides?

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Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.

From largest to smallest, the three waterfalls are the Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls and the Bridal Veil Falls. The Horseshoe Falls lies on the border of the United states and Canada with the American Falls entirely on the United States’ side, separated by Goat Island. The smaller Birdal Veil Falls are also on the United States’ side, separated from the other waterfalls by Luna Island.

Located on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more than 165 feet(50m). During peak daytime tourist hours, more than six million cubic feet(168,000m³) of water goes over the crest of the falls every minute. Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by flow rate.

The falls are 17 miles(27 km) north-northwest of Buffalo, New York, and 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation( the last ice age), and water form the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean.

Niagara Falls is famed both for its beauty and as a valuable source of hydroelectric power. Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses had been a challenge for the stewards of the falls since the 19^thcentury.

We can infer from the passage that ___ .

According to the passage, the damage to plants is .

According to the passage, what is being damaged?

According to the passage, what happens when the soil is compacted?

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 ___ of the destination.

What kind of tourism is internal tourism plus outbound tourism?

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Dry regions in the southwestern United States have become increasingly inviting playgrounds for the growing number of recreation seekers who own vehicles such as motorcycles or powered trail bikes and indulge(being crazy) in hill-climbing contests or in carving new trails in the desert. But recent scientific studies show that these off-road vehicles can cause damage to desert landscapes that has long-range effects on the area’s water-conserving characteristics and on the entire ecology (the scientific study of the pattern of relations of plants, animals, and people to each other and to their surroundings), both plant and animal. Research by scientists in the western Mojave Desert in California revealed that the compaction of the sandy dry soil resulting from the passage of just one motorcycle markedly reduced the infiltration(渗透)ability of the soil and created a stream of rain runoff water that eroded the hillside surface. In addition, the researchers discovered that the soil compaction caused by the off-road vehicles often killed native plant species and resulted in the invasion of different plant species within a few years. The native perennial (of a plant that lives for more than two years) species required many more years before they showed signs of returning . the scientists calculated that roughly a century would be required for the infiltration capacity of the Mojave soil to be restored after being compacted by vehicles.

What is the main topic of the passage?

The WTO defines a domestic tourists as a traveler visiting a destination in his country of residence for at least ___ .

___ is an organization of some 80 governments joined to promote civil aviation on a worldwide scale.

Those who say they travel “to escape” or “to relieve tension” can be seen as seeking to satisfy ___ .

The operator’s brochure should include much information EXCEPT ___ .

The entire tourism industry rests on a base of ___ .

In the 1920s and 1930s when the automobile began to gain more popularity, ___ was one of the fastest growing segments of the international tourism industry.

As in any business, there must be one person responsible for the ___ . That person is the general manager.

Airlines will ___ to allow for the high number of ___ , but must exercise caution.

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

The behavior to tourists at wilderness sites will be a factor in deciding their___.

___ can make the contribution to the balance of payments account in most countries with good tourism facilities.

There is a widely known saying among the Chinese people that “None of the Five Mountains need to be seem after coming back from ___ .”

The reputation of China’s tourist industry is less than desirable and leaves much to improve.