雅思阅读UNIT 11 Travel.doc

UNIT 11 Travel Warm up-Thinking about the Topic ?Look at these photos. Talk about them with your partner. 1 What sort of places are these? ?2 Try to identify them and name the countries where they can be found. ?3 Which is the most recent one? ?4 Now, work together with a partner to make some sentences about the images. ?Beginning to Read ? Scanning for Specific Information ?The Weird and the Wonderful - Thats Tourism! A The Beijing Olympics started on 08.08.08, but on 07.07.07 there was an event of almost equal importance, On that earlier date, the new Seven Wonders of the World were announced. These replaced most of the original ancient ones, although Egypts Pyramids were given an honorary place. The final revised list included the ancient stone city of Petra in Jordan and the ruined city of Machu Picchu in Peru. Italys Colosseum, Indias Taj Mahal and Mexicos Chichen Itza were three magnificent buildings that were included, and Brazils towering statue of Christ the Redeemer, which was only built in 1931, joined the older members of the list. And, needless to say, the updated list would have been incomplete without the inc1usion of Chinas Great Wall, which was built to defend the country from invaders. B Those sites, are very popular, and people travel from all over the world to view them, but other than looking at them, theres very little else to do. Tourist companies in cities, towns or villages want to get people to come and have a good time and spend their money, so they have to dream up ways of attracting the tourists. Then they have to keep them there by providing them with something different, exciting or even downright dangerous to do; the trick, though, is to think of something unique. C That could be something like New Zealands original bungy jumping, for example, where a stretchy rope is tied around your ankles and you jump from a great height, stopping (hopefully) just before the ground. Or it could be dragon boat races, for instance, which tak