What's your dream vacation? Watching wildlife in Kenya? Boating down the Amazon? Sunbathing in Malaysia? New chances are opening up all the time to explore the world. So we visit travel agents, compare packages and prices , and pay our money.
We know what our vacation costs us. But do we know what it might cost someone else? It's true that many poorer countries now depend on tourism for foreign income. Unfortunately, though, tourism often harms the local people more than it helps them.
It might cost their homes and lands. In Myanmar, 5,200 people were forced to leave their homes among the pagodas(佛塔)in Bagan so that tourists could visit the pagodas.
Tourism might also cost the local people their livelihood and dignity. Local workers often find only menial(卑微的)jobs in the tourist industry. And most of the profits do not help the local economy. Instead, profits return to the tour operators in wealthier countries, When the Maasai people in Tanzania were driven from their lands, some moved to city slums. Others now make a little money selling souvenirs or posing for photos.
Problems like these were observed more than 20 years ago. But now some non-government organizations, tour operators and local governments are working together to begin correcting them. Tourists, too, are putting on the pressure.
The result is responsible tourism, or “ethical tourism.” Ethical tourism has people at its heart. New international agreements and codes of conduct can help protect the people's lands, homes, economies and cultures. The beginnings are small, though, and the problems are complex.
But take heart. The good news is that everyone, including us, can play a part to help the local people in the places we visit. Tour operators and companies can help by making sure that local people work in good conditions and earn reasonable wages.
They can make it a point to use only locally owned hotel, restaurants and guide services. They can share profits fairly to help the local economy. And they can involve the local people in planning and managing tourism.
What can tourists do? First, we can ask tour companies to provide information about the conditions of local citizens. We can then make our choices and tell them why. And while we're abroad, we can:
Buy local foods and products, not imported ones.
Pay a fair price for goods and services and not bargain for the cheapest price.
Avoid flaunting wealth.
Ask before taking photographs of people.
They are not just part of the landscape!
Let's enjoy our vacation and make sure others do, too.
1. What is probably the best title for the article?
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A．Tourism Causes Bad Effects. |
B．Tourism Calls for Good Behavior. |
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C．Vacations Bring a Lot of Fun. |
D．Vacations Cost More Than You Think |
2. Which of the following is not mentioned?
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A．Local people were well paid to leave their lands. |
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B．Tourists may stay in hotels opened by local people. |
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C．Local people are mainly provided with low-paying work. |
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D．Tourists could bargain with local people for a reasonable price. |
3. The underlined phrase "take heart" means" ".
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A．pay attention |
B．take care |
C．cheer up |
D．calm down |
4. According to the passage, the writer thinks .
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A．tourism is not a promising industry |
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B．dream vacations should be spent abroad |
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C．the problems caused by tourism are easy to settle |
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D．tourists should respect local customs and culture |
Increasingly ,over the past ten years ,people—especially young people—have become aware of the need to change their eating habits ,because much of the food they eat ,particularly processed foods ,is not good for the health .As a result ,there has been a growing interest in natural foods :foods which do not contain chemical fertilizers ,widely used in farming today .
Natural foods ,for example ,are vegetables ,fruit and grain which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic(有机的)matter . In simple terms ,this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter ,which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers , the main purpose of which is to increase the amount—but not the quality—of food grown in commercial farming areas .
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy grassland for cattle .Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry (家禽):there are battery farms ,for example ,where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish .Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins .
There are other things of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet .Take ,for example ,the question of sugar .This is actually a non-essential food! Although another natural food ,such as honey ,can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary ,we can in fact do without it .It is not that sugar is harmful in itself .But it does seem to be addictive : the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year !Yet all it does is provide us with energy ,in the form of calories .There are no vitamins in it ,no minerals ,and no fibre .
It’s very important that nowadays fibre is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet .In white bread ,for example ,the fibre has been removed .But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables .It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables ,certain diseases are comparatively not often seen .For this reason ,the importance is placed on the eating of wholemeal(没有去麸的面粉)bread and more vegetables by modern experts on “healthy eating”.
1.People have become more interested in natural foods because .
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A．they want to keep fit |
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B．they want to taste all kinds of foods |
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C．natural foods are more delicious than processed foods |
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D．they want to return to nature |
2.Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following EXCEPT that .
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A．they are fed on food which is little better than garbage |
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B．they live in very crowed condition |
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C．the eggs they produce lack vitamins |
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D．they are allowed to move about and eat freely |
3.According to the passage,_________.
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A．people need sugar to give them energy |
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B．sugar is bad for the health |
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C．the use of sugar is habit forming |
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D．sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful |
______, what happened? ______ it to me gently!
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A．Go on; Remove |
B．Keep on; Signal |
C．Come on; Break |
D．Hold on; award |
______ he insisted he ______ innocent, the less they seemed to believe him.
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A．The better; should be |
B．The more; was |
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C．The more; be |
D．The better; must be |
While walking around the Xixi National Wetland Park, I found there were tens of thousands of people, young and old, ______ for the flower festival. Beautiful indeed!
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A．dressed up |
B．come up |
C．picked up |
D．turned up |
– ______ you didn’t turn up at the party last weekend?
-- My plane was delayed by two hours.
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A．What was it |
B．When was it |
C．How long was it that |
D．Why was it that |
