What's your dream vacation? Watching wildlife in Kenya? Boating down the Amazon? Sunbathing in Malaysia? New chances are opening up all the time to visit the world. So we visit travel companies, compare prices, and pay our money.
We know what our vacation costs us. But do we know what it might cost someone else? It's true that many poorer countries now depend on tourism for foreign income. Unfortunately, though, tourism often harms the local(本地的) people more than it helps them.
It might cost their homes and lands. In Myanmar, 5,200 people were forced to leave their homes among the pagodas(佛塔) in Bagan so that tourists could visit the pagodas.
Tourism might also cost the local people their jobs and dignity(尊严). Local workers often find only low-paying jobs in the tourist industry. And most of the money do not help the local economy(经济). Instead, money return to the tour operators in richer countries, When the Maasai people in Tanzania were driven from their lands, some moved to poor places of the city. Others now make a little money selling things or acting for photos.
Problems like these were noticed more than 20 years ago. But now tour operators and local governments are working together to begin correcting them. Tourists, too, are putting on the pressure.     
The result is “ethical(合乎职业道德的)tourism”. Ethical tourism has people at its heart. New international agreements and rules can help protect the people's lands, homes, economies and cultures. The beginnings are small, though, and the problems are complex(复杂的).
But take heart. The good news is that everyone, including us, can play a part to help the local people in the places we visit. Tour operators and companies can help by making sure that local people work in good conditions and earn the money they should get.
They can make it a point to use only locally owned hotel, restaurants and guide services. They can share some money to help the local economy. And they can help the local people plan and manage tourism.
What can tourists do? First, we can ask tour companies to provide information about the conditions of local people. We can then make our choices and tell them why. And while we're abroad, we can:
Buy local foods and products.
Pay a fair price for goods and services and not bargain for the cheapest price.
Ask before taking photographs of people.
They are not just part of the scenery!
Let's enjoy our vacation and make sure others do, too.
【小题1】Which of the following is not mentioned?
A.Local people protected the pagodas in Bagan well.
B.Tourists may stay in hotels opened by local people.
C.Local people are mainly provided with low-paying work.
D.Tourists had better not bargain with local people for a cheap price.
【小题2】 The underlined phrase "take heart" means"      ".
A.pay attentionB.take careC.cheer upD.give up
【小题3】 According to the passage, the writer thinks          .
A.tourism is not a promising industry
B.dream vacations should be spent abroad
C.the problems caused by tourism are easy to settle
D.tourists should respect local customs and cultures
【小题4】What is probably the best title for the passage?
A.Tourism Causes Bad Effects.B.Tourism Calls for Good Behavior.
C.Vacations Bring a Lot of Fun.D.Vacations Cost More Than You Think.

阅读下面短文,把方框中的句子还原到文中,然后完成第五小题。(每题1分,共5 分)

If you look at the sky one night and see something moving and shining that you have never seen before, it might be a comet (彗星).

  A comet sometimes looks like a star.? ____1.____ It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet goes round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.

??? If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?

 ? Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and mixed with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. ____2.______ These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.

Many people perhaps have seen a comet. _____3._____ .There may be millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.

An Englishman named Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky.? ______4.____? . Others keep coming back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it would come back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You will probably be able to see Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.

A. However no one knows how many comets there are.

B. Some comets move out of our sight and never come

C. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own.

D. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it.

5.Which of the following is not true?

A. A large part of a comet is ice, iron and rock dust

B. Some comets keep coming back at any time

C. Halley’s Comets came back in 1986

D. Maybe many people have seen a comet

 

A six-year-old British girl, Mollie Price, is opening up her third candy store. She is said to be one of Britain’s youngest bosses. Her stores are called “Mollie’s.” She sells both British and American candy. The girl would like to open more candy stores. “It might sound crazy, but believe me,” Mollie says.

“It was Mollie’s idea to open up the shop. It is Mollie who runs the candy stores,” her mother Becky, her “business partner” says.

Her mother says all the stores are put together and stocked(进货)by Mollie. Mollie works in one of the stores every Saturday, then gets up early Sunday to go to the company’s product supplier(供应商). She asks her friends to test the sweets to decide which ones are good. She’s good at smart marketing. For example, if the weather is really cold, she sells the Mr Whippy ice cream cheaper than when it’s hot outside.

“Children have the best ideas. I tell my mum what I think and she always says I have good ideas. It’s just because I know what other children like,” Mollie says.

1.What’s Mollie’s plan for the future?

A.Become Britain’s youngest boss.           B.Open more candy stores.

C.Work as a product supplier.                D.Make the best ice cream products.

2.How does Mollie know which kinds of candy are good?

A.Her mother decides it

B.She has her friends test the candy.

C.She goes to the market to research

D.She asks the company’s product supplier.

3.The prices of some ice cream products in Mollie’s stores change according to _______.

A.the number of the products               B.her friend’s idea

C.the weather                           D.the dates

4.According to the passage, what’s the key(关键)to Mollie’s success?

A.She works hard and she is good at smart marketing.

B.The company’s supplier makes good products.

C.She would like to open more candy stores.

D.Her mother always has good ideas.

5. According to the passage, Mollie is a/an________ girl.

A.kind             B.honest            C.smart             D.polite

 

NOT all memories are sweet. Some people -- all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars (伤痕).

Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase, the effect of painful memories.

In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body producing chemicals that fix memories in the brain (大脑). So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased.

The research has caused a great deal of discussion. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it.

Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.

"Some memories can destroy people's lives. They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare (噩梦). They usually come with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "This could relieve a lot of that suffering."

But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity (特质). They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past.

"All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are. I'm not sure we want to wipe those memories out, "said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.

1.The passage is mainly about          

A.a new medical invention

B.a new research on the pill

C.a way of erasing painful memories

D.a discussion about the research on the pill

2.The drug tested on people can           

A.cause the brain to fix memories

B.stop people remembering bad experiences

C.prevent body producing certain chemicals

D.erase the emotional effects of memories

3.We can infer from the passage that            

A.people doubt the effects of the pills

B.the pill will stop people's bad experiences

C.taking the pill will do harm to people's health

D.the pill has probably been produced in America

4.Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with?

A.Some memories can destroy people's lives.

B.People want to remove bad memories.

C.Experiencing bad events makes us different from others.

D.The pill will reduce people's sufferings from bad memories.

 

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