Focus on Words

2. What could happen to some countries if tourism stopped?
a. Their economies would be ruined.
b. It would keep their economies going.
c. It would narrow the mind.
d. It would decrease the crime rate.
3. Why do countries sometimes spoil their beauty spots?
a. Because they want to attract tourists.
b. Because they are too poor to build beautiful hotels on them.
c. Because they have to sell them to borrow money from foreign banks.
d. Because they want to pay their debts.
4. When are tourists sometimes killed?
a. When they break the law.
b. When they steal from the local people.
c. When they are much richer than the local inhabitants.
5. Why do local people often envy tourists?
a. Because tourists are local people.
b. Because tourists wear very few but expensive clothes and drink a lot.
c. Because tourists own radios.
d. Because tourists seem rich to local people.
6. Where do the profits from some big hotels go?
a. Abroad.
b. Into the country in which they have been built.
c. To train staff.
d. To the local inhabitants.
7. The pronoun it in Paragraph 3 refers to
a. problem b. country c. tourism d. hotel
8. The word ‘staff’ in Paragraph 4 means
a. a group of people gathered together.
b. a group of people working together.
c. a group of people taught together.
d. a group of people rejoicing together.
9. Why do tourists sometimes refuse to go to the country?
a. Because their hotels spoil beautiful spots.
b. They fear to go to the country.
c. Because they can’t rejoice in luxury.
d. Because local inhabitants shocked other tourists.
Vocabulary Check
2. Read the text and choose the correct word.
Scientists are making new (1) ... about universe all the time. Every day, we read
about new (2) ...that they say will have a huge (3) .. on our everyday lives. In a few
years time, everyone will (4) ... a mobile phone, have an e-mail (5) ... and know how to
surf the internet. The jobs of people like postmen and even teachers will (6) ... change
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