2014年大學(xué)英語專業(yè)八級閱讀理解專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練12（英語學(xué)習(xí)）

1、2014 年大學(xué)英語專業(yè)八級閱讀理解專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練 年大學(xué)英語專業(yè)八級閱讀理解專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練 12（英語學(xué) （英語學(xué)習(xí)） 習(xí)）2014 年大學(xué)英語專業(yè)八級閱讀理解專項(xiàng)訓(xùn)練 12The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the wor

2、ld. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other’s countries at a moderate cost. What was once the ‘grand tour’, reserved for only the very rich, is no

3、w within everybody’s grasp The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of. Bu

4、t what’s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each otherMany tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately

5、set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his i

6、nternational drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more. A strict

7、 schedule makes it impossible for the tourist Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. Wild generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact—how trite it sounds! – That all peop

8、le are human. We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.1. The best title for this passage is ___________[A] tourism contributes nothing to increasing understanding between nations.[B] Tourism is t