FINAL TEST
“The world of travelling”.
I. Read the texts and match them with the titles. There
is one title you don't have to use.
1.
How to travel fairly cheap
2.
A part of England that "is not England"
3.
The method of travelling widely used by the first settlers in America
4.
The fastest method of travelling
5.
Britain today
6.
A comfortable way of travelling that gives you independence
A. What images spring to mind when
you lie back and think of England? Is this the country you would like to visit?
And what country do the majority of tourists expect to find on the British
Isles? Is it cool Britannia, a contented modern country, or is it a country
that still can't get used to the loss of its empire? The latest United Nations'
report on "quality of life" in Europe puts Britain in a top ten,
along with Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden.
B. If you are young, fearless and
desperate to go travelling, even on a limited budget, then hitchhiking is just
the method of travelling for you. It is a completely unique way of travelling.
It is not a guided tour when you are placed into a coach full of other tourists
and then taken round famous historic sites. You can go and do whatever you
decide and you have an enormous amount of freedom. Another advantage of it is
the price.
C. America B.C. (Before the Car) was
a much different place than it was after all those Fords became available to
millions of Americans. Today the United States has two-fifths of all passenger
cars in the world: over 121 million. The US has developed an enormous modern
transportation system and an extensive network of roads and highways. This
system enables Americans to travel freely and comfortably wherever they want.
D. East of the Mississippi the USA is
very much "a nation of rivers". This fact can surprise visitors from
other countries as the information about rivers in America in their schoolbooks
is rather short. Only such rivers as the Missouri, Ohio and Columbia are
usually mentioned. Yet waterways have always been in use from the earliest
colonial days. Travel by water was the favourite means of transportation. It
explains the fact that most of America's largest cities first grew around ocean
harbours, along rivers, or later, by canals.
E. Many tourists visit Cornwall, the
famous peninsula in the south west of England. It is a popular area for
travellers and it is really worth seeing. The place is full of quaint things.
There are stone crosses everywhere, ancient upright stones. In Cornwall, you
can see the sea on the left, on the right and before you. There is hardly a
place there where you couldn't see the sea from. Here visitors are in a
different England And the Cornishmen say it is not England – it is Cornwall.
You can distinguish the Cornish from the English at first glance: the former
are very tanned by the sun and the wind, and have dark hair. The ancient
language is nearly forgotten. Yet a lot of geographical names do not sound
English: Trebethehick, Trequisquite, Trelawney.
II. Match the words and word combinations with their
definitions.
1. a through train
2. a sleeper
3. a return ticket
4. a direct flight
5. a smoker
6. a motel
7. bed and breakfast
8. a suite
9. to check in a
hotel
10. to book a ticket
11. to check out of a
hotel
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a) a train/carriage
with beds for sleeping through the night
b) a small hotel that
provides a place to sleep for the night and breakfast the next morning for a
fixed price
c) to arrange in
advance to have a ticket
d) a set of expensive
rooms in a hotel
e) a train that
allows a continuous journey without the necessity to change
f) to report one's
arrival to a hotel
g) a railway carriage
where smoking is allowed
h) a flight from one
point to another without turning aside
i) to leave a hotel
after paying a bill
j) a ticket for a
trip from one place to another and back again
k) a hotel for
travelling motorists
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III. Complete the text with the derivatives of the
words on the right.
Hitchhiking
Julia and me are
experienced 1… . We don't think it is a 2… way of
travelling. You 3… shouldn't get into a car with someone you
don't like the look of. You wave them off and they go. Sometimes you don't feel
4… when people don't speak English. Then you 5…
refuse. But in most 6… countries they do speak English. Though
in Spain they prefer to speak 7… The country made the biggest 8…
on me, especially Barcelona. It was the first time I saw Gaudi's 9…
and it was really 10…
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Hitchhike,
danger simple
comfort
polite,
Europe
Spain
impress,
architect
amaze
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