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
考研
Menorca or Majorca? It is that time of the year again. The brochures are piling up in travel agents while newspapers and magazin
Menorca or Majorca? It is that time of the year again. The brochures are piling up in travel agents while newspapers and magazin
admin
2011-04-12
51
问题
Menorca or Majorca? It is that time of the year again. The brochures are piling up in travel agents while newspapers and magazines bulge with advice about where to go. But the traditional packaged holiday, a British innovation that provided many timid natives with their first experience of warm sand, is not what it was. Indeed, the industry is anxiously awaiting a High Court ruling to find out exactly what it now is.
Two things have changed the way Britons research and book their holidays: low-cost airlines and the Internet. Instead of buying a ready-made package consisting of a flight, hotel, car hire and assorted entertainment from a tour operator’s brochure, it is now easy to put together a trip using an online travel agent like Expedia or Travelocity, which last July bought Lastminute. com for £ 577 million ($1 billion), or from the proliferating websites of airlines, hotels and car-rental firms.
This has led some to sound the death knell for high-street travel agents and tour operators. There have been upheavals and closures, but the traditional firms are starting to fight back, in part by moving more of their business online. First Choice Holidays, for instance, saw its pre-tax profit rise by 16% to £ 114 million ($195 million) in the year to the end of October. Although the overall number of holidays booked has fallen, the company is concentrating on more valuable long-haul and adventure trips. First Choice now sells more than half its trips directly, either via the Internet, over the telephone or from its own travel shops. It wants that to reach 75% within a few years.
Other tour operators are showing similar hustle. MyTravel managed to cut its loss by almost half in 2005. Thomas Cook and Thomson Holidays, now both German owned, are also bullish about the coming holiday season. Highstreet travel agents are having a tougher time, though, not least because many leading tour operations have cut the commissions they pay.
Some high-street travel agents are also learning to live with the Internet, helping people book complicated trips that they have researched online, providing advice and tacking on other services. This is seen as a growth area. But if an agent puts together separate flights and hotel accommodation, is that a package, too?
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it is and the agent should hold an Air Travel Organisers Licence, which provides financial guarantees to repatriate people and provide refunds. The scheme dates from the early 1970s, when some large British travel firms went bust, stranding customers on the Costas. Although such failures are less common these days, the CAA had to help out some 30,000 people last year. The Association of British Travel Agents went to the High Court in November to argue such bookings are not traditional packages and so do not require agents to acquire the costly licences. While the court decides, millions of Britons will happily click away buying online holidays, unaware of the difference.
The word " hustle" in the topic sentence of the fourth paragraph most probably denotes______.
选项
A、demand
B、hostility
C、sale
D、prejudice
答案
C
解析
这是一道词汇题,测试考生准确理解原文词语的能力。原文第四段第一句中的“hustle”一词的含义是“竭力地兜售”,故本题的正确选项应该是C“sale”(出售)。考生在不认识原文中的陌生词语时可以根据上下文去推断。第四段首句“hustle”前面的“similar”(类似的)暗示从上段中可以寻找到本题的答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/YN0RFFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Inthefollowingtext,somesentenceshavebeenremoved.ForQuestions41-45,choosethemostsuitableonefromthelist(A、B、C、
Theauthor’spresentationofAtlantans’car-dependenceismeantWhichofthefollowingisNOTmentionedinthetext?
Thegoodnewsisthatafterlastyear’sprecipitousdecline,worldwidedemandformicrochipsisrisingagain.Thenot-so-goodne
AreportconsistentlybroughtbackbyvisitorstotheUSishowfriendly,,courteous,andhelpfulmostAmericanswereto’them.
Youdon’thavetobeinsuchahurry,Iwouldratheryou______onbusinessfirst
Bysaying"thegoldenriversarebeingdiverted",theauthormeansThechallengethatnewspapersfacedfromthewebsiteis
WhatdoNationalSemiconductor,MaxwellHouseCoffee,DeloitteTouche,andHearstMagazineshaveincommon?Alltheseorganizati
WhatdoNationalSemiconductor,MaxwellHouseCoffee,DeloitteTouche,andHearstMagazineshaveincommon?Alltheseorganizati
WecanlearnfromthebeginningthatthecompetitioninthetravelindustryrevolveschieflyaroundTheword"bullish"(Paragra
随机试题
简述处理政府公众的艺术。
下列选项中,属于消化性溃疡常见的并发症有
甲因邻里纠纷失手致乙死亡,甲被批准逮捕。案件起诉后,双方拟通过协商达成和解。对于此案的和解,下列哪一选项是正确的?(2014年试卷二第40题)
客户信用证券账户为证券公司客户信用交易担保证券账户的()证券账户。
我国现行法律规定,会计师事务所和注册会计师如果工作失误或犯有欺诈行为,应对委托人或依赖已审计会计报表的第三人承担法律责任。 ( )
以下有关合同的说法中,错误的是()。
计算简答题:根据所给材料回答问题。(需计算后回答的问题须列出算式;每个问题计算过程中的小数均保留实际位数,计算结果有小数的,小数保留2位。)甲出版社拟出版一本文学新书《不曾有的记忆》。助理技术编辑小王为该书拟订的整体设计方案内容,包括采用小16开
根据听觉位置理论,耳蜗对高频声波反应的敏感区域位于()。(2011年)
如果你父母每年年初给你10000元钱,存款年利率为6%,到第三年年末你父母给你的钱一共值多少?()
Unless______,Iwillnotgototheparty.
最新回复
(
0
)