华中科技大学2011年真题及答案

华中科技大学2011年真题及答案

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Part I Cloze (0.5x20=10%)

Directions: In this part you are asked to choose the best word(s) for each blank in the passage. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.

Tourism develops culture. It broadens the thinking of the traveler and leads to culture 1 between the hosts and guests from far-off places. This can benefit the locals, since tourists bring culture 2 them.

Tourism may help to preserve indigenous customs, 3 traditional shows, parades, celebrations and festivals are put on for tourists. The musicals, plays and serious drama of London theatres and other kinds of nightlife are 4 supported by tourists. Such events might disappear without the stimulus of tourism to 5 them.

On the other hand, tourism often contributes to the disappearance of local traditions and folklore.Churches, temples and similar places of worship are 6 as tourist attractions. This can be 7 the expense of their original function: how many believers want to worship in the middle of a flow of atheist invaders? Who would want to pray 8 curious onlookers shuffle to and fro with guide books, rather than prayer books, in their hands?

Tourism may bring other indirect cultural consequences in its 9 . Tensions which already exist between ancient and more modem ways may be deepened by tourists’ ignorance of 10 customs and beliefs. Tourists, if not actually richer, often seem more well-off than natives. The former may therefore feel superior, 11 the latter embarrassed about their lifestyles. The result maybe an inferior feeling which 12 helps the sense of identity which is so important to regional culture. The poverty of a locality can look even worse when 13 with the comfortable hotel environment inhabited by tourists. Prosperous retired or elderly tourists from Britain, where the average life expectancy is 75 years, may well 14 resentment in Sierra Leone, where the local population can expect to live to no more than 41 years. The relative prosperity of tourists may 15 crime. In Gambia, unemployed young people offer to act as “professional friends” 一 guides, companions or sexual partners in return for money. When the tourism season is over, they can no longer get wages that way so they 16 to petty stealing from the local populace. All this affects the local social life and culture 17.

Cultural erosion can also take place at more 18 levels. Greek villagers traditionally 19 themselves on their hospitality. They would 20 travelers for free, feeding them and listening to their stories. To take money would have been a disgrace. That has changed now. Tourists exist to be exploited. Perhaps this is hardly surprising if the earnings from one room rented to a tourist can exceed a teacher’s monthly salary.

1. A. conflict B. contact C. concern D. constraint

2. A. with B. to C. over D. by

3. A. like that B. if when C. as if D. as when

4. A. largely B. extremely C. positively D. totally

5. A. entertain B. retain C. maintain D. pertain

6. A. considered B. taken C. treated D. made

7. A. for B. at C. in D. to

8. A. how B. that C. while D. when

9. A. sake B. wake C. sense D. cost

10. A. regional B. native C. territorial D. local

11. A. making B. allowing C. ignoring D. leaving

12. A. hardly B. seldom C. usually D. sometimes

13. A. compared B. contrasted C. related D. associated

14. A. generate B. produce C. make D. leave

15. A. increase B. enhance C. encourage D. ascend

16. A. go B. turn C. alter D. change

17. A. hostilely B. reciprocally C. conversely D. adversely

18. A. minor B. small C. subtle D. micro

19. A. prided B. famed C. sang D. claimed

20. A. put on B. put up C. put down D. put off

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