旅游英语选读试题_全国2009年1月自考试卷

全国2009年1月自考旅游英语选读试题

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I. Multiple choice: (1 × 15=15)
  Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B,
  C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence.
1. The China National Tourism Administration was established in ________.
 A. 1954  B. 1964
 C. 1974  D. 1984
2. Tourism comprises the activities of persons traveling outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for business, ________ and other purposes.
 A. meeting  B. leisure
 C. trade  D. profession
3. The head of the housekeeping department heads the numerically largest departments in the hotel, ________ ,members come into direct contact with the guests.
 A. all of who  B. any of whose
 C. many of whose  D. many of whom
4. Britain had its ________ tour on the train ________ by Thomas Cook in 1841.
 A. first, organized  B. second, organizing
 C. third, to organize  D. fourth, organize
5. Tourism is an ________ product which customers are obliged to purchase without having the opportunity to inspect it.
 A. independent  B. indirect
 C. international  D. intangible
6. 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.
 A. tourist, 48  B. visitor, 36
 C. excursionist, 24  D. traveler, 12
7. Often the tourism industry ________ for offering low wages but in these areas there may be no alternative jobs available.
 A. criticize  B. criticizes
 C. is criticizing  D. is criticized
8. 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.
 A. investment  B. evaluation
 C. circulation  D. administration
9. Owing to their desire for greater ________ , changes in the life-style of the young also threaten the traditional forms of holiday accommodation.
 A. convenience  B. adventure
 C. flexibility  D. self-catering
10. ________ played an important role in the early history of hospitality.
 A. Trade  B. Religion
 C. Temples  D. Churches
11. The Chinese government ________ the development of the domestic tourism industry as a very important means of ________ currency from circulation.
 A. consider, withdraw  B. considered, withdrew
 C. considers, withdrawing  D. considering, withdraws
12. 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.
 A. carefully escorted  B. carefully escorting
 C. cautiously guided  D. cautiously guiding
13. Since May 1,1995, leisure time over the two-day weekend ________ urban residents’ demand for domestic travel and tourism.
 A. stimulates  B. is stimulating
 C. has stimulated  D. has been stimulating
14. ________ may form an impenetrable barrier to genuine local contact and this limitation may lead to mutual misunderstanding.
 A. Literature  B. Location
 C. Language  D. Landscape
15. In more recent times, it was the ________ themselves who developed the first air package tours.
 A. travel retailers  B. travel agents
 C. travel directors  D. travel principals
II. Reading comprehension: (2 × 10=20)
 Directions: Read the following passages and make your proper choices.
(1)
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.
16. The phrase “have a fight on their hands” (Para. 1) probably means “ ________ ”.
 A. have to deal with the situation seriously
 B. have to declare war on the railway service
 C. have to decide whether to fight or not
 D. have no problem to win the fight
17. The airlines are confident in the fact that ________.
 A. they are more powerful than the Eurostar service
 B. their total passenger loss won’t go beyond a drop of 5%
 C. their traffic levels will return in 2 to 3 years
 D. traveling by rail can never catch up with traveling by air
18. The railway Brussels route is brought forth to show that ________.
 A. the Eurostar service is not doing good business
 B. the airlines can well compete with the railway
 C. the Eurostar train service only caused very little damage
 D. only some airlines, such as Air France, are suffering
19. British Midland is mentioned to ________.
 A. provide a comparison with Eurostar
 B. support the airlines’ optimism
 C. prove the inevitable drop of air passengers
 D. call for electrification and modernization of the railway
20. The purpose of the last paragraph is to ________ .
 A. praise the airlines’ clear-mindedness
 B. advise the airlines to follow British Midland as their model
 C. propose a reduction of London/Paris flights
 D. show why the airlines are still hopeful

(2)
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 r