首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations
The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations
admin
2011-02-10
94
问题
The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, you’d expect greater understanding to develop between the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each other’s countries at a moderate cost. What was once the "grand tour", reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybody’s grasp. The package tour and chartered flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldn’t have dreamed of. But what’s the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other?
Many tourist organizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and anyway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way. At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer quarters of the inhabitants are temporarily reestablished on the island of Corfu. Blackpool is recreated at Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips.
The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes. We don’t see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are. You can test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, native. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these adjectives actually act as barriers. So when you set out on your travels, the only characteristics you notice are those which confirm your preconceptions. You come away with the highly unoriginal and inaccurate impression that, say, "Anglo-Saxons are hypocrites" or that "Latin peoples shout a lot". You only have to make a few foreign friends to understand how absurd and harmful national stereotypes are. But how can you make foreign friends when the tourist trade does its best to prevent you?
Carried to an extreme, stereotypes can be positively dangerous. Wild generalizations stir up racial hatred and blind us to the basic fact--how trite it sounds! That all people are human. We are all similar to each other and at the same time all unique.
What is "grand tour" now? ______
选项
A、Moderate cost.
B、Local sight-seeing is investigated by the tourist organization.
C、People enjoy the first-rate comforts.
D、Everybody can enjoy the "grand tour".
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/gjcO777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
TinyTim,acharacterinAChristmasCarol,wasahappylittleboyinspiteofthedisabilitythatcausedhimaweaknessinone
Whattheseyoungmenandwomenneedtodonowistodevelopamentalitytoreconciletheiridealswithreality.
Theoceanbottom—aregionnearly2.5timesgreaterthanthetotallandareaoftheEarth—isavastfrontierthateventoday
Heremainedcalminthefaceoftheimpendingdanger.
Prof.Clarkdisregardedthewarningfromhiscolleaguesandcontinuedhisresearchwork.
Thecarbombwasthestartofcarnageintheholycity,andamongthemanykilledwerewomenandchildren.
A、Trendsinteachingmathematicstochildren.B、Theuseofmathematicsinchildpsychology.C、Thedevelopmentofmathematicalab
Thespeakermainlydiscusses______.
Avoideggs.Drink8glassesofwateraday.Eatingcarbswill(1).Nutritionaladvicesuchasthishasbeentoutedforyearsbu
随机试题
内感受器()
治疗脾虚湿盛的水肿,宜选用()
受试者根据自己的理解和感受对一些意义不明的图像、墨迹作出回答,借以诱导出受试者的经验、情绪或内心冲突称为一种( )。【2003年考试真题】
男,45岁。上颌后牙食物嵌塞,要求行冠修复。查:、大面积银汞合金充填,死髓牙,牙稳固,叩(-),近中与接触较差。该病例的最佳修复设计方案是
葡萄球菌肺炎的临床表现是
政策性银行不能吸收()。
采用轻质、高强的混凝土,可克服混凝土()的缺点。
从公司整体业绩的评价来看,最有意义的经济增加值有()。
下列关于党章的表述中。正确的是()。
ThetopclimatescientistatNASA(美国航空航天局)saystheBushadministrationhastriedtostophimfromspeakingoutsincehegaveal
最新回复
(
0
)