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英语专业学生经典的听力材料
Unit 11
Tourism
Part I
A
1.
resort
3. Golden Mile
4. stag and
hen parties
The south coast
1. its pier with theaters
/ restaurants
ng
Southwest
1. scenery
climate
2.
British surfing
1.
Blackpool
2.
South Cornwell
Transcript:
Most
visitors
to
the
UK
come
here
expecting
the
rain
and
miserable weather for which the country
is famous. However, when
summer finally
does arrive, the British people like nothing more
than
packing
their
trunks
and
swimming
costumes
and
heading
for
the
coast. The UK is, after
all, an island, and with 12,400 km of coastline
to explore. Any visitor to the UK will
be spoilt for choice. Here are
some of
the more famous resorts that you could expect to
visit on a
rip to Britain
Blackpool, in the northwest
of England, is the most visited resort in
the UK. Each year around 6.5 to 7
million people come to enjoy the
mile
of
sandy
beaches,
the
158
m
Blackpool
Tower
and
the
11
km-long
Golden
Mile,
where
there
are
entertainments,
pubs,
ice
rinks
and
even
a
zoo.
A
firm
family
favorite,
it
has
also
become
a
popular
destination for stag and hen parties.
At
the
other
end
of
the
country
on
the
south
coast
you
can
find
Brighton. Until 1786, Brighton was a
sleepy village. Then the future
King
George
IV
decided
to
build
a
residence
there,
and
over
the
years Brighton grew into the large,
cosmopolitan center it is now.
A
part
from
the
beaches,
Brighton
is
famous
for
its
pier.
On
the
pier
there are
theaters,
entertainments and
restaurants.
Brighton is
also fantastic for shopping.
If you fancy
traveling a little further, why not go to Cornwell
inn
the
far
southwest
the
UK?
South
Cornwell
offers
miles
of
sandy
beaches and beautiful
scenery. The climate here is warmer than the
rest of Britain and you can even find
plan trees.
For a bit more excitement, go to North
Cornwell. The scenery here
is
more
dramatic,
and
the
beaches
are
famous
for
their
powerful
waves.
As
a
result,
North
Cornwell
has
become
the
home
f
British
surfing.
One word of warning though, if you are
using the roads in the UK
on
bank
holidays
or
during
school
holidays,
you
can
expect
long
traffic jams on the motorways. It might
be better to take the train.
.
B:
Place
Problem(s) Cause(s)
Lake
District
Footpaths
becoming
trenches
Too
many
walkers
Sistine Chapel
Frescoes being damaged
Breath and body
heat
Notre Dame
Floor being
eroded
Too many visitors
Stonework
rotting
Exhaust
fumes
from
buses
Alpine
resorts
Trees being
killed
Pollution from cars
landslides
Tapescript:
The
footpaths
in
the'
Lake
District
have
become
trenches.
The
frescoes in the Sistine
Chapel are being damaged by the breath and
body
heat
of
spectators.
A
hundred
and
eight
people
enter
Notre
Dame
every
minute:
their
feet
are
eroding
the
floor
and
the
buses
that
bring them there are rotting the stonework with
exhaust fumes.
Pollution from cars
queuing to get to Alpine resorts is killing the
trees
and
causing
landslides.
In
1987
they
had
to
close
Venice
one
day
because
it
was
too
full.
In
1963
forty-four
people
went
down
the
Colorado River on a raft; now there are
a thousand trips a day.
Part II
A
Excessive visitors (averaged 50,000
during golden weeks)
Cultural relics in the museum
An electronic ticket
checking system
1). Real
time record of the number of visitors inside the
museum
2). Maximum reception capacity
The flow of tourists
Transcript:
Troubled
by
excessive
visitors,
the
Palace
Museum
or
Forbidden
City
in
Beijing
will
adopt
an
electronic
ticket
checking
system
and
make the control of the
flow of tourists. The new system will keep a
real
time
record
of
the
number
of
visitors
inside
the
museum,
and
inform the ticket office to hold ticket
sales once the number exceeds
the
musue
m’s maximum reception capacity.
The Palace Museum, on
of the most
comprehensive Chinese museums, in terms of history
and
art,
was
established
on
the
foundation
of
the
palace
that
was
the
ritual
center during two dynasties, the Ming and the
Qing, and their
collection of
treasures. It has topped the must-see list of
almost every
visitor to the capital
city. In recent years, the number of daily
visitors
to
the
Palace
Museum
averaged
50,000
during
golden
weeks,
the
week-
long
national
holidays
observed
three
times
a
year
in
China.
Superfluous
tourists
have
caused
damage
to
cultural
relics
in
the
museum.
B
B1.
1.
Shananxi
Province
/
China
/
Chang’an
/
the
largest
/
the
resting place
2.
a
group
of
warring
states
/
a
nation
/
toil
and
labor
/
historic spots
Transcript:
Ni hao, you’re listening to People in
the Know, your window into
the
world
around
you,
coming
to
you
from
Xi’an,
online
at
www.
Crienglish. Com here on China Radio
International. In this edition of
our
show, we’re discussing tourism in
China
in the backdrop of one
of the cities
that relies on tourism for its livelihood, Xi’an.
So let’s get
started.
For anyone who’s done a
small amount of research on China, one
the
the
must-
see’s
on
the
list
for
China
is
Xi’an.
This
city,
now
the
capital Shaanxi
Province, was, during the Tang Dynasty, the
largest
city in the world and the
capital of China, known then as Chang’an.
But
Xi’an
also
holds
the
distinction
of
being
the
resting
place
of
China’s
first Emperor, the man who unified a group of
warr
ing states
to create a
nation. Qin Shihuang was a man who searched his
entire
life for the elixir which would
allow him to live forever. It was on one
of
these
journeys
-----
ironically
----
he
would
live
on
eternity
in
safety and comfort. To that end, for 37
years, thousands of Chinese