2011年華科博士英語真題

華中科技大學2011年招收博士研究生入學考試試題

Part Ⅰ Cloze（0.5×20＝10％）
Directions：In thispart you are asked to choose the best word for each blank in the passage. Writeyour answers on the answer sheet.
Tourism develops culture. It broadens thethinking of the traveler and leads to culture   1   between the hosts and guests from far-off places, This can benefit thelocals, since tourists bring culture 2 them.
Tourism may help to preserve indigenouscustoms.   3 traditional shows, parades, celebrations andfestivals are put on for tourists. The musicals, plays and serious drama of London theaters and otherkinds of nightlife are    4   supported by tourists. Such events mightdisappear without the stimulus of tourism    5   them.
On the other hand, tourism often contributesto the disappearance of local traditions and folklore. Churches, temples andsimilar places of worship are    6   as tourist attractions. This can be    7   the expense of their original function: how many believers want toworship in the middle of a flow of atheist invaders? Who would want to pray    8   curious onlookers shuffle to and fro withguide books, rather than prayer books, in their hands?
Tourism may bring other indirect culturalconsequences in its    9   .Tensions which already exist betweenancient and more modem ways may be deepened by tourists’ ignorance of 10    customs and beliefs. Tourists, if notactually richer, often seem more well-off than natives. The former maytherefore feel superior 11 the latter embarrassed about their lifestyles.The result maybe an inferior feeling which   12 helps the sense of identity which is soimportant to regional culture. The poverty of a locality can look even worsewhen 13 with the comfortable hotel environmentinhabited by tourists. Prosperous retired or elderly tourists from Britain, where the average life expectancy is 75years, may well 14 resentment in Sierra Leone, where the localpopulation can expect to live to no more than 41 years. The relative prosperityof tourists may 15 crime. In Gambia, unemployed young people offer toact as “professional friends”—guides, companions or longer get wages that wayso they 16 to petty stealing from the localpopulace, All this affects the local social life and culture 17 .Culturalerosion can also take place at more 18 levels. Greek villagerstraditionally 19 themselves on their hospitality. Theywould 20 travelers for free, feeding them andlistening to their stories. To take money would have been a disgrace. That haschanged now. Tourists exist to be exploited. Perhaps this is hardly surprisingif the earnings from one room rented to a tourist can exceed a teacher’smonthly salary.
1. A. Conflict    B.contact        C. concern          D.constraint
2. A. with    B.to             C. over              D. by