1 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box.Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.

A. locals       B decrease       C. experienced       D.positive     E.popularity     F.efficiently G. focus       H. increase     I. respectful     J. protect        K.fiercely

Eco-tourism involves people travelling to beautiful but environmental sensitive place. Such trips are usually carried out with a(n)    1    guide. Over recent years, this type of travel has been steadily gaining    2    as more people search for new travel experiences.

It is obvious that eco-tourism is beneficial in many aspects. First, all the money spent by the tourists is used to    3    the important environmental spots they visit. Second,it helps visitors to better understand the environment, which is sure to    4    their knowledge of the world. Furthermore, this style of travel is also more    5    of the local culture.

Compared to normal tourists, eco-tourist use energy more    6    , save water and produce less rubbish by finding ways to recycle it. These behaviors have a(n)    7    and lasting effect on the local environment.

Two things are needed to make eco-tourism a success. First, it should be done in small groups. And second, because it requires great effort, both eco-tourists and    8    must be sincere in their devotion to improving the environment. Green travel provides local people with jobs in parks, hotels and shops. One great achievement of eco-tourism has been the    9    of ilegal hunting. Former hunters can now work as guides to help keep the animals safe in their natural surroundings. Peru is one country using eco-tourism to promote respect for the environment. It's able to take better care of its rainforests because of    10    on more sustainable travel. In addition to this, local people's living-standards have improved. Many others are now following Peru's example and using eco-tourism to preserve their environment for the future generations.

3 . Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs.

AVOID BIG EVENTS Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the cost of accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival (19 Oct.) cost￡169.15 at Booking.com. A week later, the same room cost￡118.15.

If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoid — or you’re looking for a big event to pass your time-----check out sites such as Whatsonwhen.com, which allow you to search for events in the UK by city, date and category.

STAY AWAY FROM THE STATION If travelling to your destination by train, you may want to find a good base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday.

Don’t be too choosy about the part of town you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodge’s Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was￡95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was￡75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just ￡62.95.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really central hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a self-catering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example is the historic O’Neill Flat on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, available for ￡420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults.

GET ON A BIKE London’s ‘Boris bikes’ have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your own pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs.

Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around ￡1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or ￡5 per day).

1. The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events may ________.

A．help travelers pass time

B．attract lots of travelers to the UK

C．allow travelers to make flexible plans

D．cause travelers to pay more for accommodation

2. The passage shows that the O’Neill Flat ________.

A．lies on the ground floor

B．is located in central London

C．provides cooking facilities for tourists

D．costs over￡100 on average per day in late September

3. Cardiff’s program allows a free bike for a maximum period of ________.

A．half an hour

B．one hour

C．one hour and a half

D．two hours

4 . Disneyland’s opening day, July 17, 1955, was a terrible experience. Rides broke down. Restaurants ran out of food and drink and drinking fountains were in short supply... All in front of a national audience of 90 million, then the largest live broadcast in television history on a day that would be known in Disney history as Black Sunday.

But Disney’s story actually started two decades earlier with what Walt Disney called “Daddy’s Day”. On Saturdays in the 1930s and 1940s, Disney would take his two daughters to ride the Griffith Park merry-go-round, which they’d enjoy while he sat on a bench dreaming of ways for families to have fun together. Disney disliked the amusement parks they often visited, seeing them as dirty, unimaginative places run by rude employees.

He thought he could do better. In 1939 he asked two animators (动画片制作者) at his movie studio to work on a plan for an amusement park. By 1952 the idea had expanded into a $1.5 million amusement park proposal that he presented to Burbank. The City Council, which feared such a project would create a carnival (嘉年华) atmosphere, rejected the proposal. Disney counted the rejection as fortunate setback. By now, his dream for a theme park had gone beyond the space available in Burbank. He searched locations throughout Southern California. A 160-acre orange garden, 22 miles south of Los Angeles, was soon selected.

The ABC television network offered $5 million in loans and investments if Disney agreed to produce and host a one-hour weekly show called "Disneyland". The deal amounted to months of free advertising for the park and allowed Disney to introduce TV audiences, particularly kids, to the park.

Disneyland opened then. The 5,000 expected guests increased to 28, 154, thanks to fake tickets. After the madness of opening day, Disney and his new park were criticized in the press. The media predicted a quick and early end. But the public didn’t listen. Visitors arrived in large groups, and within weeks Disneyland was a success.

Over sixty years later, Disneyland’s popularity continues to grow, with total overall attendance topping 700 million and showing no signs of slowing down.

1. What mainly led to Walt Disney’s plan to build his own amusement park?

A．His ambition to expand beyond the movie industry.

B．His animators’ suggestion on an entertainment plan.

C．His wish to create a better place for family recreation.

D．His daughters’ unpleasant experience in the Griffith Park.

2. By “Disney counted the rejection as a fortunate setback” in paragraph 3, the author means the rejection ________.

A．brought good luck to Disney and his park

B．contributed to the difficulty of opening the park

C．was viewed as a financial obstacle to the design of the park

D．presented Disney with a favorable opportunity to rethink his plan

3. What can be learned about Disneyland from the passage?

A．Everything went on smoothly before it opened.

B．It spent $5 million on advertising for its opening.

C．People’s enthusiasm for it increased despite criticism.

D．Only invited guests could get into it on its opening day.

4. Which is the best title for the passage?

A．Disneyland: How It All Began	B．Disneyland: An Overnight Success
C．Disneyland: How It Developed	D．Disneyland: A Park with a Long History

7 . The term ‘dark tourism’ is far newer than the practice, which long predates Pompeii’s emergence as a dark ________. Dr Philip Stone, perhaps the world’s leading academic expert on dark tourism, considers the Roman Coliseum to be one of the first dark tourist sites, where people travelled long distances to watch death as sport. Later, until the late 18^th century, the appeal was ________ still in central London, where people paid money to sit in grandstands to watch mass hangings. Dealers would sell pies at the ________, which was roughly where Marble Arch stands today.

It was only in 1996 that ‘dark tourism’ entered the scholarly vocabulary when two academics in Glasgow ________ it while looking at sites associated with the murder of John F. Kennedy. Those who study dark tourism identify plenty of ________ for the growing phenomenon, including raised awareness of it as a(n) ________ thing. Access to sites has also improved with the arrival of cheap ________ travel. It’s hard to imagine that the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum would now welcome more than two million visitors a year were it not for its ________ to Krakow’s international airport. Peter Hohenhaus, a widely travelled dark tourist based in Vienna, also ________ the broader rise in off-the-beaten track tourism, beyond the territory of popular guidebooks and TripAdvisor rankings. “A lot of people don’t want mainstream tourism and that often means engaging with places that have a more ________ history than, say, a Roman ruin,” he says. “You go to Sarajevo (萨拉热窝) and most people remember the war being in the news so it feels closer to one’s own life story.”

Auschwitz-Birkenau Marble Arch

Hohenhaus is also a fan of ‘beauty in ________’, the contemporary cultural movement in which urban ruins have become subject matter for expensive coffee-table books and a thousand Instagram accounts. The crossover (交叉风格) with death is clear. “I’ve always been drawn to ________ things, “the 54-year-old says. Nevertheless, like any tourism, dark tourism at its best is educational, the example of Grenfell Tower (many “tourists” flooded to a London tower block, destroyed by a fire in 2017 with 71 deaths) hints at the ________ felt at some sites. “I remember the Lonely Planet Bluelist book had a chapter about dark tourism a while ago and one of the ________ was ‘pay due respect’,” Hohenhaus says. “It’s big, it’s dramatic, it’s black and it’s a story you’ve followed in the news. I’ll be interested to see Grenfell Tower up close. I can see the attraction. But I would not stand in the street taking a selfie ________.”

1.

A．opportunity

B．secret

C．attraction

D．memory

2.

A．fancier

B．harsher

C．likelier

D．further

3.

A．site

B．relic

C．memorial

D．range

4.

A．assigned

B．charted

C．applied

D．processed

5.

A．motivations

B．obstacles

C．purposes

D．reasons

6.

A．identifiable

B．creative

C．unrecognizable

D．practical

7.

A．rail

B．coach

C．pedestrian

D．air

8.

A．shortcut

B．resemblance

C．nearness

D．relevance

9.

A．relates to

B．points to

C．signals to

D．translates to

10.

A．distant

B．ancient

C．recent

D．recorded

11.

A．disgust

B．decay

C．disbelief

D．doubt

12.

A．beautiful

B．contemporary

C．urban

D．ruined

13.

A．amazement

B．unease

C．pressure

D．panic

14.

A．limitations

B．obstacles

C．goals

D．rules

15.

A．embarrassedly

B．determinedly

C．necessarily

D．merrily

8 .

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1. If David and his 9-year-old son are both animal lovers, they had better dial ________ for more information before their tour.

A．6338 – 6859	B．6338 – 6826
C．6338 – 3311	D．6338 – 6877

2. John wants to have a bird’s-eye view of the whole city of Singapore during his short stay there, so________ is his best choice.

A．City Sightseeing	B．DUCK
C．Night Safari	D．Flyer

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A．$89

B．$91

C．$99

D．$101

4. What is the most suitable item for Peter to choose who loves adventure and he has only one free hour to tour ?

A．City Sightseeing	B．DUCK
C．Night Safari	D．Flyer

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假设你是高中生王磊，你的英国朋友Alex将于寒假期间到中国旅游两周，计划在上海待三天。请你给他写封信，对于他在沪三天的活动安排提出自己的建议，并说明理由。
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