FINAL EXAMINATION

Course: ENGLISH FOR TOURISM

Time Allowed: 90 Minutes Total Points:40

SECTION 1

A. With the knowledge you have studied, decide whether the following statements are true
(T) or false (F). (10 points)
1. The invention of television is one of the important developments affecting travel and
tourism
2. Refreshments consist of drinks and food.
3. The term ‘room service’ is used in hotels meanwhile ‘cabin steward’ is used in cruise
ships.
4. One of the advantages of tourism is encouraging greed.
5. A sleeper is a place to sleep on a train - a type of bed.
6. A list of places to be visited on one journey can be seen on a brochure.
7. Providing travel insurance is one of the main functions of a travel agent.
8. Tourist attractions are places which tourists need to use.
9. An incentive tour is a trip offered to a group of employees as a reward for good work.
10. A voyage is a long journey to a distant place by sea.

Answers:
1. ____________________ 6. ____________________
2. ____________________ 7. ____________________
3. ____________________ 8. ____________________
4. ____________________ 9. ____________________
5. ____________________ 10. ____________________

B. Read the passage and decide if the statements below are True (T) or False (F). (10 points)
SPACE HOTEL
‘Thank you for travelling with British Airways’ new Orbitours service. We are cruising at about
25,000 kph at an altitude of ninety km, and have almost left the Earth’s atmosphere. In a few
minutes we will start the docking manoeuvre with the Tokyo Orbital International hotel….’
Japan’s Shimuzu Corporation is already making plans for the day that there are regular flights
into space, not for astronauts and cosmonauts, but for tourists and sightseers.
The company expects that, within thirty years, space will provide a vast new frontier for the
adventurous. Then anyone with enough money will be able to experience the thrill of space
flight, from the push of high g-forces on take off, to the moment when the sky changes from blue
into the pitch black of space.
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The elderly will enjoy a low gravity environment, where sleep is more comfortable than on earth.
Honeymooners will find that microgravity adds extra excitement to their first night together. And
under the flashing strobes of the low gravity discotheque, a new generation of bizarre dance
styles will evolve.
As the aerospaceplane closes in on Tokyo Orbital International, passengers will witness a hotel
that looks quite unlike any on earth. Various sections will be connected to a central shaft, like
meat on a skewer. At the bottom of this cosmic shish-kebab will be the docking port. Above it
there will be an inverted pyramid holding the hotel lounge, and at the top there will be sixty-four
separate rooms arranged in modules around the edge of a vast eighty-metre diameter wheel.
Within them, the air will be cleaned by single-celled plants called algae, and artificial gravity
will be created by rotating the wheel at about three times a minute.
Though it is only seventy percent of the earth’s pull, the artificial gravity will allow conventional
hotel room fittings such as flush lavatories, showers, and wash basins. The space tourist will
enjoy luxury that will be a far cry from the capsule hotels currently enjoyed by Japanese
businessmen. Several hazards face the space traveller, however.
Three million kilograms of junk are estimated to swarm within 2, 000 kilometers of earth. A
piece just a few centimeters in diameter could destroy the module on the hotel, so special
measures will be required to protect tourists.
The intrepid tourist may also suffer from a close relative of sea sickness – space adoption
syndrome. Around half of those who have gone into space suffer this unpleasant side-effect,
though effective drugs are likely to be available in the future to overcome the nausea and
discomfort.
Space tourism will not come cheap – estimates of the cost abound, ranging from tens of
thousands to millions of dollars, depending on the trip, time-scale, available technology, and the
market for the experience. Some technical consultants estimate that the cost per seat could fall
from $4 million in the space shuttle to $10.000 in a ‘spacebus’.
As for whether space tourism will occur at all, we can look at the development of air travel. In
the past sixty years the number of people who cross the Atlantic has grown from a handful of
dare devils to some 25 million a year.
If this pattern is repeated in space, there are bound to be commercial flights within the next sixty
years.
1. The Shimuzu Corporation has started building the first space hotel.
2. The company expects that cheap space travel will be a reality within thirty years.
3. The space hotel is likely to appeal to different age groups.
4. The hotel lounge will be beneath the rooms.
5. The hotel will create its won gravity by spinning slowly.
6. Hotel guests will still be able to use facilities such as toilets.
7. The hotel will run the risk of being hit by pieces of debris in space.
8. About fifty per cent of today’s astronauts suffer from sea sickness.
9. Most experts agree on what the likely price of space travel will be.
10. Space travel will expand as rapidly as air travel.
Answers:

1. ____________________ 6. ____________________
2. ____________________ 7. ____________________
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3. ____________________ 8. ____________________
4. ____________________ 9. ____________________
5. ____________________ 10. ____________________

SECTION 2 OPEN QUESTIONS (20 points)

Write a paragraph (150 words) on the following topic
How important is tourism in China?
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