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  1. Give English equivalents of the words and word combinations used in the text.

Кочевник, паломник, купец, торговец, паром, исследователь, искатель приключений, средства транспорта, кардинально изменить, появляться, состоятельные люди, передвигаться по внутренним водным путям, покрывать большие расстояния, перевозить пассажиров, организованный туризм, организовать поездку, обеспечивать кого-л. чем-л., турпакет, придерживаться чего-л., расширять бизнес, продвигать туризм, познакомиться с, путеводитель, признанный, акционерная компания.

2. Match the terms with the definitions.

  1. a raft

a) a person who travels to an important religious place

  1. a caravansary

b) a place where mineral water comes out of the ground and where people go to drink the water or to bathe in it

  1. a nomad

c) a place that provides accommodation, food and drinks for travelers

  1. a spa

d) a large passenger boat powered by steam

  1. a merchant

e) a large oriental inn with a court in the middle

  1. a pilgrim

f) a flat boat made of pieces of wood or logs tied together

  1. a steamship

g) a person who has no permanent place of residence and roams from place to place

  1. an inn

h) a person who travels buying and selling goods

3. Fill in the blanks with the words given below.

explorers

railway

camels airplanes

jet planes

inland waterways waterways

mode spas

treatment

overseas trip

the rich resorts

steamships

races

1. The only means of travelling in the early 19th century were trains and __________.

  1. Thomas Cook arranged the first trip by ___________ in 1841.

  2. When the first ____________ appeared, they changed travel crucially.

  3. When ___________ emerged, they made air travel available to most people.

  4. In the first half of the 19th century steamships carried passengers within _________.

  5. Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus and James Cook were world-famous _________.

  6. Thomas Cook arranged the first _________ in 1855 to Paris.

  7. Well-to-do Europeans used to go to health resorts and ___________ of Germany for recreation and ___________ .

10. The first travellers used simple boats on the water and __________ in the desert.

  1. During the first group tour Thomas Cook provided his tourists with meals on the train and tickets for the ___________ .

  2. The 19th century tourism was first and foremost for ___________ .

  3. Well-to-do tourists used to travel to the __________ in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

14. Air travel is the fastest ___________ of travelling.

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