More people are travelling than ever before, and lower harriers to entry and falling costs means they are doing so for _______ periods.
The rise of “city breaks” --48-hour bursts of foreign cultures, easier on the pocket and annual leave balance has increased tourist numbers, but not their _______ spread. The same attractions have been used to market cities such as Paris, Barcelona and Venice for decades, and visitors use the same infrastructure as residents to reach them. “Too many people do the same thing at the exact same time,” says Font. “For _______, the city no longer belongs to them.”
This starts with marketing, says Font, who notes that Amsterdam has started advising visitors to seek _______ outside of the city centre on its official website. “That takes some balls, really to do that. But only so many people will look at the website, and it means they can say to their residents they’re doing all they can to ease congestion.”
But it also _______ a better way, it is called “detourism”: sustainable travel tips an _______ itineraries for exploring an authentic Venice, off the paths beaten by the 28 million visitors who flock there each year.
A greater variety of _______ for prospective visitors ------ ideas for what to do in off-peak seasons, for example, or outside of the city center ------ can have the effect of diverting them from already saturated landmarks, or _______ short breaks away in the first place. Longer stays _______ the pressure, says Font. If you go to Paris for two days, you’re going to go to the Eiffel Tower. “If you go for two weeks, you’re not going to go to the Eiffel Tower 14 times.”
Similarly, repeat visitors have a better sense of the __________, “We should be asking how we get tourists to __________, not how to get them to come for the first time. If they’re coming for the fifth time, it is much easier to integrate their behavior with ours.”
Local governments can foster this sustainable activity by giving preference to responsible operator and even high-paying consumers. Font says cities could stand to be more selective about the tourists they try to attract when the current metric for marketing success is how many there are, and how far they’ve come. “You’re thinking, ‘yeah but at what cost...’.”
He points to unpublished data from the Barcelona Tourist Board that prioritizes Japanese tourists for spending an average of €40 more per day than French tourist as a(n) __________ that fails to take into account their bigger carbon footprint. __________ tourists are also more likely to be repeat visitors that come at off-peak times, buy local produce, and __________ to less crowded parts of the city ------ all productive steps towards more __________ tourism, and more peaceful relations with residents.
1.A. longer B. shorter C. wider D. clearer
2.A. environmental B. national C. economic D. geographic
3.A. locals B. tourists C. visitors D. cleaners
4.A. transports B. accommodation C. restaurants D. service
5.A. addresses B. paves C. proposes D. receives
6.A. separate B. individual C. alternative D. objective
7.A. reform B. guidance C. invitation D. support
8.A. convincing B. discouraging C. preventing D. resisting
9.A. pace B. escape C. withstand D. ease
10.A. culture B. knowledge C. entertainment D. ability
11.A. take over B. bring up C. come back D. lay off
12.A. distinction B. harmony C. association D. comparison
13.A. French B. Italian C. Spanish D. German
14.A. carry out B. give into C. spread out D. impact on
15.A. slight B. complex C. temporary D. sustainable
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Start with the end and work backwards
When Jason Hoelscher was an undergraduate of fine art studies, there weren’t any professional development classes. So ambition and the timely realization 1. he would have to determine “what’s next” on his own urged Jason to engage his future self to find direction. It was 1996, and he was finishing his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) in Denver. He was faced with the choice of sitting back to wait for something 2. (happen), or pursuing a path into the unknown. He chose the latter.
Jason set up a plan that in five years he 3. (show) his work in the top gallery in that area of the country. This five-year goal gave him a starting point 4. which to work backwards.
By setting the goal, all of Jason’s efforts 5. (point) in the same direction. He showed up at different art show openings, and researched as best he could to make 6. familiar with the market environment.
As a result of showing up, Jason took opportunities 7. got him closer to his goal. He sent work to a student show and was accepted by Robin Rule, the owner of Rule Gallery. 8. (inspire), Jason spent the next month making new work.
In April of 1997, Jason went back to Rule Gallery with his new work. 9. scared to death, he looked confident at the gallery meeting. When he left, he left as the newest addition to the rule gallery roster (花名册). He had his first exhibition there one year later.
Jason could have stopped with the show selection, but what he really wanted was gallery representation. He struck while the iron was hot, and in 10. (do) so, shortened his five-year plan into a year-and-a-half.
在很多公众场所，我们都可以看到“中式英文”(Chinglish)的标识，我们是否应该彻底清理这些 Chinglish 呢？对此，人们持有不同的观点，请结合以下信息，以“Should We Get Rid of Chinglish?”为题，写一篇英语短文。
赞成 | 1.外国人很难看懂。2.我们应该学习标准英文。 |
反对 | 1.“中式英文”丰富了英语本身。2.“中式英文”为我们的生活增添了情趣。 |
你的观点 | ？ |
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
One summer evening, I was sitting by an open window, read a story book. Suddenly, I heard someone crying for help which was sounded like a child's. I went out into the yard to see anybody was in trouble.
Once again，I heard the cry from the trees at the end of a yard. "Who was there?" I called. And there was no answer. Feeling rather foolishly, I went back into the house. I was going to read my book again when he was frightened by the cry of "Help! Help!" There, sitting on the table, was my neighbor's parrots! It must have flown in through the open window while I was out on the yard.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
It was in 1897 that a European chemist 1. (call) Dr. Felix Hoffmann produced aspirin from a chemical. The first trials of this medicine took place in 1899. Within a short time, aspirin became 2. best-selling medicine in the world for pain 3.(relieve). Not only has aspirin proved vital for reducing fever and helping stop pain, but there are also other things 4. aspirin can help with.
Penicillin 5. (discover) by accident in 1928, which is considered 6. (be) one of the most important medicines in contemporary society. Due 7. the widespread use of penicillin, many lives were saved in the war. If penicillin had not been available, many people 8. (die) from sickness or even small wounds. Penicillin became the 9. (great) drug of the 20th century, 10. (save) millions of lives.
As a child, I started learning to play the piano, my favorite musical ________, but I was forced to give up when I started my middle school ________ I could concentrate more on my studies.
It’s one of my biggest ________ to stop practicing the piano when I recall sadly today. During the following years, I kept telling my piano teacher that I would ________. However, I didn’t keep my promise because I was ________ with my study. ________ I lost touch with my teacher. Some years later, my teacher died. I was very sad because I lost such a good teacher. She was a very warm and gentle person. It hurts me to think she may have been ________ that I never returned. I haven’t taken lessons since then but to be honest, I ________ to. Sitting at the piano, I couldn’t help recalling many ________ — times of my practising at home and playing before my teacher and one time my teacher ________ me after I played entire pieces of music wrong in front of her colleagues. I was so ________ that I could hardly say anything. But her ________ helped me ease my shame. These memories, ________, good or bad, never caused my ________ for playing the piano again.
This thought then led me to think that ________ is like music, and that we all try to play different ________ in the instrument of our life. Sometimes the pitch(音高) is ________ when we play it well, but sometimes we are out of tone. However, we all continue to create our own ________ style of music. No matter what style our music is, it is ________ that we sing the songs of joy, quietness and love. Though I may never make it back to piano lessons, it doesn’t ________ that I’ve stopped making music.
1.A. instrument B. performance C. room D. stage
2.A. in that B. so that C. now that D. except that
3.A. successes B. regrets C. decisions D. hobbies
4.A. play B. graduate C. leave D. return
5.A. occupied B. angry C. satisfied D. patient
6.A. Actually B. Constantly C. Suddenly D. Gradually
7.A. astonished B. glad C. disappointed D. amazed
8.A. liked B. needed C. wanted D. decided
9.A. dreams B. expressions C. words D. memories
10.A. instructed B. hurt C. punished D. respected
11.A. frightened B. moved C. embarrassed D. excited
12.A. happiness B. satisfaction C. comfort D. sigh
13.A. instead B. meanwhile C. therefore D. however
14.A. hope B. courage C. feeling D. effect
15.A. life B. learning C. attitude D. enjoyment
16.A. cards B. sports C. roles D. games
17.A. hard B. wonderful C. surprising D. complex
18.A. unique B. boring C. common D. similar
19.A. necessary B. strange C. possible D. important
20.A. matter B. mean C. report D. appear
