Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
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The longest-ever “Golden Week” holiday lived up to its name as China’s tourism industry saw records set and a surge in revenue, National Tourism Administration statistics revealed.
The country’s 119 major ____41____ spots received a total of 34.25 million visitors during the eight-day holiday bridging the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holiday, up 20.96 percent from the same period last year. Tourism income went up by nearly a quarter from 2011 to 1.77 billion yuan, the NTA said.
Some major scenic spots, including the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, attracted record numbers of visitors during the holiday, with Beijing ___42___ the most popular tourist ___43___ in the country.
The capital received 13 million tourists over the holiday, a year-on-year increase of 22.7 percent. The city’s tourism revenue ___44___ 8.8 billion yuan, 29.4 percent higher than that of the same period of last year.
On October 2, 186,000 people visited the Forbidden City at the heart of Beijing ---- the largest single-day number of visitors the imperial palace has ever had.
While the Golden Week turned out to be golden for the tourism industry, the holiday tour craze gave rise to complaints among the public about ___45___ crowded scenic spots and restaurants as well as traffic congestion.
The week ___46___ a significant increase in the number of individual road travelers because of the government’s policy that exempts passenger cars from road tolls during the holiday. The policy resulted in unprecedented traffic and caused heavy congestion on major expressways.
According to statistics form the Ministry of Transport, a record of 80.87 million people traveled by road each day during the holiday. Meanwhile, the country’s trains ___47___ 60.95 million passengers, up 9.4 percent year on year, while the number of airway travelers hit 7.61 million from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6.
A decrease in road accidents was the silver lining of the ___48___ traffic. During the holiday, 68.422 accidents occurred, a 46.4 percent decrease ___49___ with last year’s National Day holiday.