Tourism

Tourism is one of the world's largest industries, and it is the fastest growing. It
contributes over £50 billion to the economy annually, over £12 billion of it from
overseas visitors. About 25 million overseas visitors (1) ... Britain each year.
Tourism is one of the biggest employment (2) ... in the UK, too – it employs over
1.7 million people, which is more than in the construction or health service
industries.
Around 20% of all new (3) ... are in this industry. These figures are very
impressive, but how do they translate (4) ... job possibilities for you? There is
room in this industry for all sorts of people, with different educational (5) ... ,
personal attributes, interests and career aims. A tourist is really a traveller –
someone who (6) ... a journey, usually for recreation, (7) ... a holiday or
sightseeing. (8) ... , tourism at its very simplest refers to the industry that provides
travel and entertainment facilities for people away from their own homes.

1. A) come from B) come to C) come away with D) come down to

2. A) zones B) sections C) districts D) sectors

3. A) works B) jobs C) employments D) vocations

4. A) into B) from C) for D) at

5. A) surroundings B) traditions C) backgrounds D) settings

6. A) makes B) does C) performs D) breaks

7. A) as B) such C) so D) like

8. A) Although B) Despite C) Therefore D) Because

 The Giant Panda
The giant panda is a beloved animal in China. It is regarded (1) ... a national (2) ...
. It is found mostly in southwestern China in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu
provinces. The giant panda is part of the bear family. It has a white coat with black
trimmings around its eyes and on its ears, arms, and legs. Adult pandas can be
5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weigh (3) ... to 330 pounds (150 kilograms). The
giant panda leads a (4) ... life, except during the mating season.
It lives in bamboo forests (5) ... the mountains. It can climb trees but lives mainly
on the ground. (6) ... most bears, the giant panda does not hibernate. It moves to
low-lying areas during the winter in search (7) ... warmer temperatures. The giant
panda has a mainly (8) ... diet, eating mostly bamboo shoots and leaves. It also
eats insects and small rodents. Giant panda breeding groups are small and
isolated from one another.

1. A) like B) as C) to D) that

2. A) fortune B) value C) treasure D) prize

3. A) down B) on C) up D) off

4. A) solitary B) alone C) friendless D) unsociable

5. A) on B) at C) under D) in

6. A) Unlike B) But C) Owing D) Unlikely

7. A) to B) of C) for D) with

8. A) vegetable B) vegetate C) vegetarian D) vegetation

 The average life span
Life span, also known as life expectancy, is a statistical measure of the average amount of time
a living being is expected to live.

Human life expectancy can be very different depending (1) _______________ where you were
born and how wealthy your family is. Nowadays, it ranges (2) _______________ around 50
years in most African nations to almost 90 in Southern European countries and Japan.

Sadly, butterflies are among the organisms with the shortest life span. Some species only
live (3) _______________ a day. However, some species of butterflies can
live (4) _______________ to several months.

What would you say is the maximum lifespan for an animal? And which one would that be? Well,
the honor belongs to the Greennland shark, which averages 300 hundred years but some
specimens have lived over 500 years. They were alive when the Byzantine
Empire (5) _______________ still a thing!

However, when it comes (6) _______________ life expectancy, no living being can beat trees.
Some trees can grow (7) _______________ into their thousands, with Tjikko trees in Sweden
holding the title of organism with the longest lifespan. Some of these trees are 10,000 years old.
10,000!!! They were already (8) _______________ the planet when our species was still living
in caves.

The history of coffee

According (1) _______________ legend, coffee was discovered by a shepherd living in modern-
day Ethiopia. He noticed his goats were very active and unable to sleep at night when they ate
certain berries, (2) _______________ grew naturally in this region.

Seeking help for this odd phenomenon, he consulted with a local abbot, who soon put coffee
beans to a (3) _______________ use by filtering them and creating a beverage. Rumor says this
new concoction helped the pious man (4) _______________ the long hours of prayer.

From Ethiopia, coffee spread to the neighboring Arabian Peninsula, where its trade and
cultivation took (5) _______________ in the 15th century. In the Near East, coffee became a
social event and people enjoyed it in coffee houses, while watching art performers, discussing
current events and bonding over a nice cup of hot coffee.

This fashion made (6) _______________ way into Europe

thanks (7) _______________ travelers who came back with amazing stories of a black drink that
kept people going on for hours, even (8) _______________ nights.
 The rise of robots
The rise of robots in our near future is (1) _______________. We can all agree that it is bound
to happen so the question that remains is «Do we want it to happen?»

Robotics has experienced an unprecedented (2) _______________ in the last few years, making
real what a few decades ago only seemed science fiction yet that doesn’t mean we are ready or
even (3) _______________ aware of what is to come.

When people are surveyed (4) _______________ robots, (5) _______________ two problems
arise in every poll worldwide. First, many people are afraid or even (6) _______________ that a
robot may take their jobs within a few years. The other concern stems from robots that look
very much like humans and are more intelligent than us.

Although robotic vacuum cleaners taking over our society seems fairly (7) _______________ for
our (8) _______________, who is to say fully abled robots will not control our grandchildren’s.

1. deny
2. grow
3. remote
4. regard
5. consist
6. anxiety
7. like
8. generate
Java
Java lies in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago and it is the most heavily (1)
_______________ island in the world. Over 140 million people call it home. Java is full of
landforms that amaze locals and visitors (2) _______________. Famous for its volcanoes, of
which there is a (3) _______________ for every (4) _______________, Java also boasts out-of-
this-world waterfalls and jungles. In fact, while visiting Java one could (5) _______________ find
themself wondering if they are in the setting of «Jurassic Park».

This evergreen land is also well-known for its UNESCO World Heritage temples, such as
Borobudur and Prambanan, which can get (6) _______________ busy, (7) _______________ at
noon. Yet by no means you should skip them when touring around Java —they are absolutely
stunning.

However, the most precious thing Java has is Javanese people. Extremely friendly and always
eager to lend a hand to (8) _______________ tourists, they still display that innocence shown
by countries where tourism hasn’t become massive and overtly commercial.

1. population
2. like
3. choose
4. like
5. easy
6. infuriate
7. special
8. clue
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