2016年湖北学位英语考试完形填空试题及答案三
Passage 3
Tourism has become a very big (1). For Spain, Italy and Greece it is the largest (2) of foreign exchange, and (3) for Britain, it is the fourth. Faced (4) this hug new income, no government can afford to look (5) on the business; questions of hotel bath rooms, beach umbrellas and ice-cream sales are now (6) by ministers of tourism with solemn expertise. Before the Second World War the tourist industry was widely (7)as being unmanly and stupid But (8) has become a new industry, as trade business used (9) ; in Spain, Italy, Greece and much of Eastern Europe,new road (10) have opened up in the country, first to tourists, and (11) to industry and locals.
(12) of tourism is a nationalized industry, a ( 13 ) part of national planning. In a place west of Marseilles, the French government is killing mosquitoes and (14) six big vacation places to (15) nearly a million tourists. In Eastern Europe, a whole new seaside (16) has sprung up (17) the last few years: the governments have greatly (18) when tourists from the West (19) from half a million four years (20) to nearly two million last year.
1. A. firm
B. business
C. company
D. affair
2. A. factor
B. resource
C. source
D. cause
3. A. even
B. yet
C. also
D. for
4. A. in front of
B. of
C. with
D. for
5. A. up
B. at
C. for
D. down
6. A. determined
B. discussed
C. argued.
D. sold
7. A. regarded
B. said
C. talked
D. spread
8. A. agriculture
B. war
C.tourism
D. education
9. A. be done
B. done
C. to do
D. to doing
10. A. types
B. styles
C. buildings
D. systems
11. A. than
B. later
C. then
D. latter
12. A. Many
B. All
C. None
D. Much
13. A. key
B. minor
C. linking
D. questioning
14. A. built
B. building
C. to be built
D. have built
15. A. attract
B. pull
C. hold
D. contain
16. A. civilization
B. culture
C. writing
D. book
17. A. over
B. for
C. after
D. beyond
18. A.suffered
B.lost
C.invested
D. benefited
19. A. added
B. divided
C. reduced
D. multiplied
20. A. since
B. before
C. ago
D. after