Directions:There are 10 blanks in the following passage.
For each numbered blank, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the
best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single
line through the center. Increasingly, the
development of tourism is seen to have an effect on the environment. Erosion
(磨损) is one problem. The steps and stones of major popular
1 like Shakespeare’s birthplace or Stonehenge (巨石阵) are
literally being worn away by millions of foreign feet. The
2 in the case of Britain’s best known prehistoric monument
has been to use railings to keep visitors at a distance. Such measures can
hardly be 3 in the house of the Bard,
however, where tourists want to enter the actual building.
Overcrowding in cities, towns and villages is 4
problem. Traffic jams are an outcome. In narrow roads, tourist
vehicles cause congestion. 5 traders
and residents cannot get around to do their work. Car parks fill up, 6 strangers park their cars where they can: in
streets, across gateways, in lay-bys, or even in 7
driveways. This causes obstruction. The sheer weights of
in-comers can be a hazard. Thus Venice, a city built for half a million
inhabitants, is 8 by another half
million who populate the city daily in the tourist 9
—eight million visits each year. The mayor recently decided to
10 visitors to 90,000 a day: the only
way to save the city from overcrowding.