全国2013年10月自考试卷旅游英语选读试题00837
全国2013年10月高等教育自学考试
旅游英语选读试题
课程代码：00837I. 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 and blacken the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. The tourist seeks various psychic and physical ______ and satisfactions.
A. enjoyments B. experiences
C. adventures D. curiosities
2. New tourism is a phenomenon of large-scale packaging of nonstandardized ______ services at competitive prices to suit the demands of tourist.
A. leisure B. travel
C. transportation D. hotel
3. The development of transportation facilities contributes to the better use of increasing ______ and greater demand for tourism.
A. family incomes B. business service
C. leisure time D. paid vacation
4. Educational visits find the ______ linked with the learning aspect as representing very good value.
A. campus visits B. university lectures
C. school accommodations D. low costs
5. The tour operator’s brochure is a vital ______，being the main influence on the customer’s decision to buy.
A. information provider B. marketing tool
C. attention attractor D. destination description
6. ______ services do not operate according to published timetables.
A. Red-eye B. Cheap
C. Reserved D. Charter
7. A business traveler is unlikely to have the same ______ as a pleasure traveler.
A. cost plans B. value perceptions
C. safety considerations D. speed demands
8. Holiday Inn pioneered innovations that were revolutionary for the times but which subsequently became ______ for chaim operations.
A. landmarks B. commonplaces
C. standards D. routines
9. Every function of the hotel departments exists, but ______ differ from hotel to hotel.
A. services B. duties
C. managements D. priorities
10. Multipliers are well-known to economists as a means of estimating how much ______income is produced in an economy as a result of the initial spending or injecting of cash.
A. reducing B. extra
C. increasing D. average
11. The contact and exchange with local people is often ______ to ordering food and drink and buying souvenirs.
A. limited B. connected
C. led D. happened
12. The scenic countryside retreats before the growth of hotels, restaurants and other ______ catering for tourists’ needs.
A. entertainments B. buildings
C. amenities D. resorts
13. Domestic tourism consists of leisure and ______ travel activities conducted by citizens within their own country.
A. sightseeing B. conference
C. education D. business
14. Travel and tourism follows the law of ______ development from lower level to higher level.
A. planned B. gradual
C. mutual D. self
15. There is great potential in China for ______ tourism, focusing on ethnic groups and environmental adventure.
A. ecological B. geographical
C. specialized D. mass
Ⅱ. Reading comprehension: (2×10=20)
Directions: Read the following passages. Make your proper choices and blacken the
corresponding letter A，B， C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.
(1)
The problem of leisure is new. Until very recent times people worked each day to the limit of their strength. Of course there were always a privileged few who had leisure; but most men had to work 12,14, or even 16 hours a day, six days a week. As late as 1840 the average factory worker labored 72 hours a week. “Sunup to sundown” was the farmer’s day, or as another phrase puts it,“from can to can’t.”
Today, working less than a 40-hour week, people enjoy more leisure time. Hence, the wise use of leisure time has become an important problem for everyone, young or old. It is a particularly difficult problem for the sick, the aged, and those who have retired from earning a living. Those people have so much leisure that it is hard for them to find interesting and worthwhile ways to use it .
However short the work week becomes, work is still the most important part of life. We do not work to get leisure and the pleasures leisure brings us; rather, we use leisure wisely so that work itself can become awarding and enjoyable. The feeling of success at doing one’s daily work—whether it is a job, maintaining a home, or going to school—depends largely on coming to it each day with fresh energy and active interest.
Leisure and recreation go together, though they are not necessarily the same thing.“Recreation” has an obvious meaning. It is the kind of leisure activity that brings "re-creation" of strength and spirit. When one speaks of making good use of leisure, he means choosing recreational activities which contribute to health, growth, and spirit.
16. The phrase “from can to can’t” in Line 5, Paragraph 1 means ______.
A. from beginning to end B. from birth to death
C. from morning to night D. from time to time
17. How to spend leisure time wisely is NOT a particularly difficult problem for people ______.
A. who are very busy everyday
B who are sick in bed
C. who are aged and in good health
D. who have retired from work
18. How does the author look at work and leisure?
A. We work hard so that we can enjoy more leisure.
B. We enjoy leisure so that we can come back to work with fresh energy.
C. Leisure can bring us a lot of pleasures that work cannot.
D. The success of work has little to do with how we spend our leisure time.
19. What is the relationship between leisure and recreation, according to the author?
A. Leisure and recreation are closely related.
B. Leisure and recreation are identical.
C. Recreation covers all kinds of leisure activities.
D. Recreation does not belong to any leisure activity.
20. From the passage we know that ______.
A. leisure has been an old problem since ancient times
B. leisure cannot be replaced as the most important part of life
C. our success in work is mostly determined by whether we use leisure wisely
D. good recreational activities contribute greatly to health, growth and spirit
(2)
Russia’s Mir space station was supposed to be the first destination for space tourists. But in March 2001, the Russian Aerospace Agency brought Mir down into the Pacific Ocean. As it turned out, bringing down Mir only temporarily delayed the first tourist trip into space.
The Mir crash did cancel plans for a new reality-based game show from NBC, which was going to be called Destination Mir. The Survivor-like TV show was scheduled to air in fall 2001.Participants on the show were to go through training at Russia’s cosmonaut training center, Star City. Each week, one of the participants would be eliminated from the show, with the winner receiving a trip to the Mir space station. The Mir crash has ruled out NBC’s space plans for now. NASA is against beginning space tourism until the International Space Station is completed in 2006.
Russia is not alone in its interest in space tourism. There are several projects underway to commercialize space travel. Here are a few of the groups that might take tourists to space:
Space Island Group is going to build a ring-shaped, rotating “commercial space infrastructure” that will resemble the Discovery spacecraft in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.”Space Island says it will build its space city out of empty NASA space-shuttle fuel tanks, and place it about 400 miles above Earth. The space city will rotate once per minute to create a gravitational pull one-third as strong as Earth’s.
According to their vision statement, Space Adventures plans to “fly tens of thousands of people in space over the next 10-15 years and beyond, around the moon, and back, from spaceports both on Earth and in space, to and from private space stations, and board dozen of different vehicles...”
Even Hilton Hotels has shown interest in the space tourism industry and possibility of building or co-funding a space hotel. However, the company did say that it believes such a space hotel is 15 to 20 years away.
Initially, space tourism will offer simple accommodations at best. For instance, if the International Space Station is used as a tourist attraction, guests won’t find the luxurious surroundings of a hotel room on Earth. It has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment. However, the first generation of space hotels should offer tourists a much more comfortable experience.
In regard to a concept for a space hotel initially planned by Space Island, such a hotel could offer guests every convenience they might find at a hotel on Earth, and some they might not. The small gravitational pull created by the rotating space city would allow space-tourists and residents to walk around and function facilities would be possible. Additionally, space tourists would even be able to take space walks.
21. Which of the following statement is NOT true about Russia’s Mir Space Station according to the passage?
A. It was planned to be the first destination for space tourists.
B. It was renamed Destination Mir in a game-show of NBC.
C. It was crashed down into the Pacific Ocean by Russian Aerospace Agency.
D. It put off the first trip into space for the time being.
22. The game-show from NBC was ______.
A. a reality-based competition for astronauts.
B. a competition game launched in the fall of 2001.
C. a TV show whose survivors would go on a trip to Mir Space Station.
D. a reality game for those who enjoyed cosmonautic training.
23. Which of the following statement is true according to the vision statement of Space Adventures plans of Space Island?
A. A commercial space infrastructure named “Space Odyssey” will be built.
B. The space city will be built by employing the empty NASA space-shuttle fuel tanks.
C. The space city will rotate around the earth for about 400 miles.
D. Different vehicles will be involved in taking tourists to and from the earth and the space.
24, What may space tourists possibly enjoy in the space hotels?
A. The luxurious facilities in the space hotel.
B. All the conveniences of a hotel on earth.
C. Walking around the space freely.
D. Walking around the space city and possibly in the space.
25. What can be inferred as the theme of this passage?
A. Space Accommodation. B. Space Adventure.
C. Space Plan. D. Space Station.
Ⅲ. Cloze:(1×15=15)
Directions: Choose the best answer from the choices given to complete the passage and blacken the corresponding letter A， B， C or D on the ANSWER SHEET.
A hotel does certain things to protect its guests and their possessions. For example, front desk agents should never give 26 , messages, or mail to anyone who does not show proper
27 .The hotel should also have a policy that 28 employees from 29 out guest information, such as room numbers, 30 callers or visitors.
Most hotels have three levels of key security: emergency keys, master keys and individual guestroom keys. Only an 31 key can be used to get into all guestrooms, even those that 32 double-locked, so it is a very restricted key. Most employees have master keys that allow 33 to rooms that are not double-locked. Guests have one or two individual guestroom keys,
34 cannot open double-locked rooms, given to them by the front desk agent. Guests feel most 35 when they know that they can double-lock their doors from the inside. Guests having very 36 possessions may choose to use hotel safe deposit boxes, if they are available.
Escape procedures are 37 concern of hotels, 38 emergencies. Most hotels have fire alarms or an alert system to 39 guests of danger. Hotels also have procedures for giving
40 aid to injured guests.
26. A. possessions B. guests
C. news D. keys
27.A. identification B. photos
C. letters D. cards
28. A. protect B. prevent
C. prohibit D. pretend
29. A. giving B. taking
C. carrying D. fetching
30. A. for B. to
C. with D. of
31. A. restricted B. individual
C. master D. emergency
32. A. is B. was
C. are D. were
33. A. entry B. service
C. sales D. business
34. A. that B. which
C. who D. of which
35. A. worry B. anxious
C. glad D. safe
36. A. large B. worth
C. cheap D. valuable
37. A. else B. other
C. another D. some
38. A. in case of B. in advance of
C. regardless of D. as well as
39. A. inform B. expect
C. warn D. recall
40. A. next B. first
C. urgent D. last
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Ⅳ.Phrasal verbs:(1×10=10)
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fascinate with vie with concentrate on conform to come into service |
result in associate with keep to oneself be similar to refer to |
42. Please complete the exercise without ________ a Chinese-English dictionary.
43. It was an unprecedented shipwreck that ________ the death of nearly half of the passengers.
44. The two hotels ________ each other for the leading position of the hotel association.
45. The experts are having a detailed discussion about the problems ________ cancer treatment.
46. The new type of Metro card ________ last month.
47. After the operation, Julia ________ most of the time.
48. You’ve got ________ the rules and regulations or leave the hotel.
49. The foreign visitors ________ so ________ the vivid introduction by the local guide that they decided to stay at the resort hotel overnight.
50. My opinions on this dispute ________ the superior director’s.
Ⅴ. Phrase translation: (1×20=20)
Part One
Directions: Translate the following into Chinese.
51. a certified travel counselor program
52. the courier well versed in the language
53. a buoyant level of tourism
54. highiy-trained supervisors
55. scheduled liner trips
56. average seat cost
57. availability of cultural events
58. a crew member of a vessel
59. launching pads
60. transit tourists
Part Two
Directions: Translate the following into English.
61.办公室间的计算机联网 62.补贴兑换率
63.协调、合作的团队 64.不定期的航空服务
65.食宿的地点和类型 66.机票报价
67.人均消费水平 68.国际短程旅游者
69.欠发达地区 70.旅游资源
Ⅵ. Passage translation: (10 × 2=20)
Directions: Translate the following passages into Chinese.
71. A further problem of mass tourism is that created by congestion. The subject of congestion can be considered in three ways. There is first the question of the physical capacity of an attraction to absorb tourists；car parks, streets, beaches, ski slopes cathedrals and similar features all have a finite limit to the numbers of tourists that can be accommodated at any given time. However, a second consideration is psychological capacity of a site—the degree of congestion which tourists will tolerate before the site begins to lose its appeal. Quantifying this is no easy matter since perception of capacity will differ, not just according to the nature of the site itself but according to the market which it attracts.
72. How does a travel agency organize a travel? We have seen that there are various activities which a travel agency has to perform in order that an intending traveler undertakes his proposed journey and enjoys a holiday of his choice. There are various steps involved from the time a traveler visits a travel agent to buy a ticket until he returns back home after visiting a place of his choice. Generally speaking, organized travel by a travel agency can be of two types: 1. single client; 2. group client.
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