NEW DELHI, India(AP)___ India is fast becoming a top destination for tourists thanks to a forceful campaign to push the country’s Himalayan spas(礦泉名勝) and beaches,officials say.
Tourism officials have been crisscrossing the globe as part of the government’ s “Incredible India” campaign launched in 2003.And the results are beginning to show. Tourists traveling to India have jumped by nearly 26 percent from last year and the number is expected to cross 3 million this year, said Amitabh Kant, chairman of the India Tourism Development Corp “Foreign exchange earnings, too, have shown a nearly 40 percent rise this year.” Kant told the Associated Press.
India’s earnings from tourism were 4.3 billion dollars between January and November 2004,conpared to 3.1 billion dollars for the same period of 2003.
“Tourist figures are looking up, especially after the way the travel magazines are praising India,” Renuka Choudhury, India’s tourism minister, told reporters just before leaving for Spain and Italy to push the “Incredible India” campaign.
Conde Nast Traveler ranked India sixth among the world’s top 10 destinations in its annual readers’ traveler awards. India won top points for its cultural diversity, hospitality and good value for money.
Lonely Planet Online, the Website of the guidebook series, described India as among the top five international holiday destinations along with Tailand, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.
The “Incredible India” campaign focuses on the country’s scores of small, largely unexplored tourist spots, as well as India’s traditional healing arts. However, Choudhury noted at least 22 airports are being upgraded, with better signs, modern toilets lounges and duty free shops. A tourist police force has been set up at airports, railway and bus terminals.
1) Tourism officials have been crisscrossing the globe to ______________.
A) learn from resorts B) strengthen communication
C) draw tourists to India D) enjoy the scenery
2) It can be learned that ____________________________.
A) Kant is satisfied with the trend of tourism
B) Kant worries about the future of India’s tourism
C) Choudhury doesn’t the situations of tourism will improve
D) Choudhury thinks India should make full preparations for the crisis of tourists
3) Which of the following may NOT belong to the advantages of India?
A) Hospitality B) Cultural diversity
C) Good value for money D) Natural scenery
4) The last paragraph mainly tells us ______________________.
A) there are five international holiday destinations worthy of a visit
B) India is worthy of a visit but has some shortcomings
C) why people want to travel in India
D) the “Incredible India” campaign came into effect
5) The passage is mainly about _______________________.
A) tourism in India B) India’s technique
C) the future of India D) India’s position in people’s mind
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India’s National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese. And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.
Aradhna Tripathi is a business professional in New Delhi. She said, “ Eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how you show your love and gratitude(感激) for a person is through the kind of food you serve him. And the kind of lifestyle we are leading is one of the reasons why we have the number of obese people increasing every day.
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Doctor Anoop Misra at Fortis Hospital in New Delhi says the risk of diabetes is crossing social and economic lines. Five years ago, he says, obesity and diabetes were limited to India’s richest people, but now things have changed.
But Doctor Misra is hopeful that the spread (蔓延,傳播)of obesity can be slowed. And he says it must start in schools by giving all Indian children the same instruction on physical activity and diet.
The World Health Organization says China is also moving up in obesity rates. The estimate (估計) has reached about five percent countryside and as high as twenty percent in some cities.
What is this passage mainly about?
A. Obesity has become a big killer in India.
B. Heart disease is troubling people in India.
C. People in India live a very unhealthy life.
D.Malnutrition remains a serious problem in India.
According to Aradhna Tripathi , one of the causes of the obesity problems is_________.
A. .the development of economy
B. the change of Indians’ lifestyle
C. Indians’ attitude (態(tài)度)towards eating
D. Indians’ attitude towards obesity.
What can we infer from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5?
A. Most wealthy people in India are overweight.
B. Five years ago, few people in India were overweight
C. Few poor people are diabetic for economic reasons.
D. Now even the poor in India suffer from obesity.
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1.The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.
A. a village
B. a small town
C. the part of a town that lacks water badly
D. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings
2.Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.
A. there is no electricity B. the weather is bad
C. there is no water D. people don’t want the dirty water
3.A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.
A. forty B. four hundred C. a hundred D. fifty
4.The passage mainly tells us ______.
A. how India government manages to solve the problem of water gets their water
B. how women in Kesum Purbahari
C. how much water a day a person deeds
D. that India lacks water badly
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Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.
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Robert Friedlander’s next destinations were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.
1.The best headline for this newspaper article would be ______ .
A.The Kingdom of Bicycles B.A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C.Marco Polo and the Silk Road. D.An American Achieving His Aims
2.The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because______ .
A.he asked to see the manager
B.he entered the hall with a bike
C.the manager had to know about all foreign guests
D.the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him
3.Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order. ______ .
A.China, India, and Pakistan B.India, China, and Pakistan
C.Pakistan, China, and India D.China, Pakistan, and India
4.What made Friedlander want to come to China? ______.
A.The stories about Marco Polo . B.The famous sights in Xi’an .
C.His interest in Chinese silk. D.His childhood dreams about bicycles .
5.Friedlander can be said to be _______ .
A.clever B.friendly C.hardworking D.strong—minded
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A Growing Problem
Going to school is difficult for more than 13 million children in India. They must go to work instead, or go hungry. That’s why India began the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world. A free lunch encourages children to come to school and gives them the energy they need for learning. The program began in the 1960s.
The kitchen in Vrindaban is run by the Akshaya Patra Foundation. It is one of the lunch program’s biggest partners. “Just $11.50 can feed one child for an entire year,” said Madhu Sridhar, president of the Akshaya Patra Foundation.
Lunch Is Served!
The Akshaya Patra food truck arrives at Gopalgarh Primary School. Since the program started, the number of underweight children has gone down. The children get foods they need — as long as they finish what’s on their plates.
1.The kitchen in Vrindaban supplies food to _____.
A.the poor B.the old
C.college students D.school children
2.Why is it difficult for children to go to school in India?
A.Because there are not enough teachers.
B.Because there are not enough schools.
C.Because they have to work to make money.
D.Because their parents refuse to send them to school.
3.Which of the following about the Mid-Day Meal Scheme is NOT true?
A.It is run by Narasimha Das.
B.It has been carried out for about 50 years.
C.It is to encourage children to go to school.
D.It is the largest school-lunch program in the world.
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閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中,選出最佳選項。
On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles”.
Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.
When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dream were coming true. Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.
1. The best headline (標(biāo)題) for this newspaper article would be ___________.
A. The Kingdom of Bicycles B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road D. An American Achieving His Aims
2. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because ___________.
A. he asked to see the manager
B. he entered the hall with a bike
C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests
D. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him
3. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, _________.
A. China, India, and Pakistan B. India, China, and Pakistan
C. Pakistan, China, and India D. China, Pakistan and India
4. What made Friedlander want to come to China?
A. The stories about Marco Polo. B. The famous sights in Xi’an.
C. His interest in Chinese silk. D. His childhood dreams about bicycles.
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