Английский язык туризм и гостиничный сервис

32. For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, С or D) best fits each gap.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD SOUVENIR?

On my desk at home, I have a collection of souvenirs; objects that

(0) ... me of places I've visited and important events in my life. These objects include a model boat that I saw being (1) ... from a piece of wood on a Caribbean island, a piece of lava that (2) ... hot from a volcano in the year I was born, and a shell (3) ... on my favorite childhood beach.

(4) ... everything else, from which memory and detail fades, it is as if the longer you hold on to certain objects, the (5) ... their associations with the past become, and the sharper the recollections that gather around them. They are, (6) ..., real souvenirs, encapsulations not only of the place, but of your time in the place. But these days, the term 'real souvenirs' sounds like a contradiction in (7) ..., and this is because the objects sold to tourists as souvenirs are often cheap mass-produced imports that have nothing to (8) ... with the place at all.

It's often the (9) ... that the best souvenirs, like my shell, are found rather than purchased, but (10) ... for souvenirs can also be a fun holiday activity. But if you are buying souvenirs on holiday this summer, make sure they (11) ... the reality test. A good souvenir is not just made in the area where it is bought, it also says something about the culture of that area. It is something made by local people using sustainable local materials, and because you are

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33. This article is about three French women who set off on holiday and received an unpleasant surprise. Read the article and answer these questions.

1.What was their American dream?

2.Why is the article entitled "A Tale of Two Cities"?

3.Why weren't they suffering from time zone changes after eight hours' travel?

4.What was the "minor inconvenience"?

5.Who is they in "They simply had no idea"?

6.How did the policeman finally manage to explain the situation to them?

7.Why were they unwilling to take phone calls?

Has anything ever gone wrong for you or for one of your friends on holiday? What happened?

A TALE OF TWO CITIES AS INTREPID TRIO LOSE OUT ON

AMERICAN DREAM

The three French women had set out bound for adventure. The hotel was booked. They had their holiday cash. They were looking forward to the autumnal scenes around Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It didn't seem that far away, the United States. Only eight hours on a ferry from Le Havre. They had preferred to take the boat, rather than fly. But even they were surprised at how little they were suffering from the time zone changes. There was only a minor inconvenience, it seemed. They stepped into a taxi, asking for the Sheraton. They had already booked for a three-day stay, and paid a $500 deposit. But those cabbies. They simply had no idea. Drive you about for hours, and still unable to find a luxury hotel as big as the Sheraton.

The police became involved when the cabbie turned in desperation to the Portsmouth constabulary. He was unable to trace the famous hotel. "They were adamant they had booked into the Sheraton in Portsmouth," PC David Crouch said. "They asked if they were in Portsmouth and I said 'Yes'.

Then they asked 'Is this Hampshire?' and I agreed. It was all a great mystery, so I asked if they had a brochure from the hotel and they produced a pamphlet. I spotted the word Portsmouth, then saw that it was

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in New Hampshire, USA. I pointed to the map on the leaflet and showed them Portsmouth, then ran my finger down about half an inch and said 'Look! New York!' I didn't know if they were going to laugh or cry when, in broken English, they asked 'Are we in the wrong country?' Fortunately, they saw the funny side and burst out laughing. I've been doing this job for 31 years and this is the first time I have come across anyone who accidentally came to the wrong country for a holiday." The three women, two in their twenties, one a little older, were taken to the two-star Arcade hotel in Portsmouth. They plan to return home this morning, according to the receptionist, Sara de Bathe. They were fighting shy of all telephone calls. Particularly long-distance ones.

(from The Guardian)

34. For questions 1-2, read the text below and decide which answer (А, В, С or D) best fits each gap.

THE ART OF TRAVEL

Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is in front of our eyes and the thoughts that we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, new thoughts, new places. Introspective reflections which are liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape. The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do. The task can be as paralyzing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand. Thinking improves when parts of the mind are given other tasks, are charged with listening to music or following a line of trees.

Of all modes of transport, the train is perhaps the best aid to thought: the views have none of the potential monotony of those on ship or plane, they move fast enough for us not to get exasperated but slowly enough to identify objects. They offer us brief, inspiring glimpses into private domains, letting us see a woman at the precise moment when she takes a cup from a shelf in her kitchen, then carrying us on to a patio where a man is sleeping and then to a park where a child is catching a ball thrown by a figure we cannot see.

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1.According to the writer, why may people think deeply on a long journey?

A They are inspired by things they see out of the window. В They are bored and so have lots of time for reflection. С The mind is only partly occupied in looking at the view. D The mind is free of its usual everyday preoccupations.

2.He sees the train as the most conducive to thought because of

A the particular speed at which it travels.

В the varied landscape through which it passes.

Сthe chance it gives us to compare our lives with others'. D the need to keep pace with the constantly changing view

35.You are going to read a text about a group of women who went on an expedition in the Arctic circle. Read the text on the right once quickly and say which of the items in the list is not mentioned.

1. choosing the group members

2. preparations for the trip

3. weather conditions

4. preparing food

5. protective clothing

6. feelings and relationships

36.Read the text again. For questions 1-7, choose the answer (А, В, С or D) which you think fits best according to the text.

1 What was so extraordinary about the expedition? A There was no one to lead it.

В The women did not have any men with them.

СIt was a new experience for most of the women.

D The women had not met one another before.

2. Why were the women who took part in the expedition chosen? A They were the only ones who answered the advertisement.

В They had done a weekend training course.

С They were still in the group after others had been eliminated. D They came from very diverse backgrounds.

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3.What did the women who answered the advertisement have in common?

A They were about the same age.

В They had all suffered pain and discomfort. С They all had plenty of money.

D They all wanted to achieve a goal.

4.What does 'these' refer to in line 28?

A all the applicants

В the training expeditions

С the women who went on the trip D the unsuitable applicants

5.What did each woman have to do before the start of the expedition? A visit Canada

В get fit

С learn to ski

D meet the other women

6.On the expedition, the women had to be careful to avoid

A falling over on the ice. В being left behind.

С damaging the sledges. D getting too cold at night.

7.It was difficult for the women to cover 15 kilometers a day because A they got too tired.

В the ice was moving. С they kept getting lost.

D the temperatures were too low.

8.What is the main message of the text?

A Motivation and teamwork achieve goals. В Women can do anything they want.

С It is sometimes good to experience difficult conditions. D Arctic conditions are very harsh.

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In 1997, a group of twenty British women made history. Working in five teams with four women in each team, they walked to the North Pole. Apart from one experienced female guide, the other women were all ordinary people who had never done anything like this in their lives before. They managed to survive in an environment which had defeated several very experienced men during the same few spring months of that year. Who were these women and how did they succeed where others failed?

In the summer of 1995, an advertisement was put in several British newspapers: 'Adventurers are being sought for the formation of an allwoman team to walk to the North Pole. Applications are invited from women of any age, background and occupation who are willing to put up with real pain and discomfort to achieve an important goal.'

Nearly one hundred women took part in the first selection weekend and then, after several training expeditions designed to weed out unsuitable applicants, twenty women were chosen. The youngest of 8 these was twenty-one and the oldest fifty-one. In the group there was a mother of triplets, a teacher, a flight attendant, a policewoman and even a film producer.

They were a very mixed bunch but they all really wanted to take part in the venture and make it a success. Each of the women agreed to raise the µ2500 needed for expenses and the airfare to Canada, where the expedition began. They also committed themselves to following an intensive physical training programme before leaving the UK so that they were fit enough to take part in the expedition without endangering their own or others' lives.

The women set off as soon as they were ready. Once on the ice, each woman had to ski along while dragging a sledge weighing over 50 kilos. This would not have been too bad on a smooth surface, but for long stretches, the Arctic ice is pushed up into huge mounds two or three meters high and the sledges had to be hauled up one side and carefully let down the other so that they didn't smash. The temperature was always below freezing point and sometimes strong winds made walking while pulling so much weight almost impossible. It was also very difficult to put up their tents when they stopped each night.

In such conditions the women were making good progress if they covered fourteen or fifteen kilometers a day. But there was another problem. Part of the journey was across a frozen sea with moving water

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underneath the ice and at some points the team would drift back more than five kilometers during the night. That meant that after walking in these very harsh conditions for ten hours on one day, they had to spend part of the next day covering the same ground again. Furthermore, each day it would take three hours from waking up to setting off and another three hours every evening to set up the camp and prepare the evening meal.

So, how did they manage to succeed? They realized that they were part of a team. If any one of them didn't pull her sledge or get her job done, she would be jeopardizing the success of the whole expedition. Any form of selfishness could result in the efforts of everyone else being completely wasted, so personal feelings had to be put to one side. At the end of their journey, the women agreed that it was mental effort far more than physical fitness that got them to the North Pole.

37. Read the article about the way tourist destinations have developed over the last three decades and answer these questions.

a.What was the film Summer Holiday about?

b.How much did two weeks in Majorca cost in 1963? с. How much did it cost to go to Australia?

d.What were package holidays like at that time?

e.Why did package holidays have to last a long time?

f.According to the article, which long-haul destinations have opened up since the 60s?

g.How has Australia become a tourist destination?

h.In what way has technology affected tourism?

i.How has politics affected tourism?

SUMMER HOLIDAY

Peter Hughes looks at how our horizons have expanded and the world has shrunk since 1963

"We're all going on a summer holiday," sang a British pop star, Cliff Richard, way back in 1963, but he and his musicians never thought of going further than ex-Yugoslavia. Their adventure in the film Summer Holiday involved buying a London bus and driving through Europe.

The few package holidays available were to places such as the Costa Brava, Raima, Austria or Italy. Holidaymakers flew in a piston-engined

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aeroplane such as the Lockheed Constellation and paid about forty guineas for 15 days in Majorca.

At that time package holidays were rarely shorter than two weeks. This was because the government wouldn't allow tour operators using charter flights to sell a holiday for less than the price of a return ticket on a scheduled airline to the same place. As a result, the number of people able to afford a holiday abroad was limited.

The expansion of popular travel has been explosive. Around 250.000 people took a package holiday in 1963; in 1992 the figure was 11 million. Increased prosperity, of course, has made this possible but the biggest influences have been politics and technology. Take Australia. In 1963 you would have spent your life savings getting there. Now you can go to Sydney on a two-week package and stay at a four-star hotel for a fraction of that price.

It was a mixture of politics and technology that brought the Great Barrier Reef and Sydney harbour within reach. For years the national airlines had opposed any competition from charters but, as the Australian economy declined and with the success of the bicentenary celebrations, revenue from tourism seemed more and more attractive. So the politicians changed their mind and charters started up in 1988.

The new technology was in the aircraft itself, the Boeing 767 twoengined jet with the range and economy to bring a whole catalogue of long-haul destinations into the package holiday domain. Thailand, India, Mexico, East Africa, the States and the Caribbean all have their place in the mass market brochures thanks to the new aircraft.

Politics with an even bigger "P" have opened up parts of the world that the most adventurous would have been reluctant to visit thirty years ago, even if they had been allowed in. Now several international airlines fly to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, and the tourist can scramble through the Vietcong's secret network of tunnels which have been specially widened for broad-bottomed westerners. China now welcomes tourists who throng the Forbidden City, cruise up the 'Yangtze, and marvel at the Terracotta Warriors at Xian.

As for Eastern Europe, the Russians want tourists almost more than there are tourists to go there, and in the Czech state visitors stroll through the fairy-tale streets of Prague in their millions. In these cities a complete legacy of architecture has been handed down intact. St Petersburg would still be recognisable to Peter the Great; Prague is still much as Mozart

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knew it. Whatever else the communists did, their neglect of ancient buildings has proved to be an unexpected boon and has preserved the beauty of entire city centres.

(adapted from an article in Expressions)

Part two.

TOURIST: ATTRACTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT

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1.Read and translate into Russian:

1.Tourist attraction is anything that may cause a tourist to visit an area. It may be a beach, a mountain, a historical landmark and so forth.

2.Entertainment includes activities that amuse people, such as going to theatres, night clubs, art exhibitions and so on.

3.Free port is a port where people can buy some types of merchandise without paying customs duties on their purchases.

4.Souvenir shop is a place where people can buy objects that will help them to remember their trip because 'souvenir'1 is the French word for

"to remember".

5.Handicraft is the art or skill of making articles by hand, often pottery or fabrics.

6.Amusement Park is an area that offers different kinds of amusements or entertainments, such as thrill rides, magic shows.

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