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This document contains an English reading comprehension test consisting of multiple choice and short answer questions about a text on the impacts of climate change on the tourism industry. Some of the key points addressed in the questions include: - Climate change is a crucial factor in selecting tourist destinations as climate zones shift. - Ski resorts like El Colorado in Chile are threatened by environmental issues like shorter winters and more frequent thaws due to global warming. - Air travel damages the environment through its significant carbon dioxide emissions. - The main idea of the text is about how tourism contributes to climate change and its effects.

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English Reading Test 1-1

This document contains an English reading comprehension test consisting of multiple choice and short answer questions about a text on the impacts of climate change on the tourism industry. Some of the key points addressed in the questions include: - Climate change is a crucial factor in selecting tourist destinations as climate zones shift. - Ski resorts like El Colorado in Chile are threatened by environmental issues like shorter winters and more frequent thaws due to global warming. - Air travel damages the environment through its significant carbon dioxide emissions. - The main idea of the text is about how tourism contributes to climate change and its effects.

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Vicerrectoría Académica

Programa de Inglés

ENGLISH II
READING COMPREHENSION TEST (50%)

Name: PEDRO VERGARA HERRERA Career: VCA5 61205-920-2022-3 ICO ADVANCE


Teacher: Claudia Pineda G Date : / / 2022-02 Total score: /40 pts.

I) A READING COMPREHENSION (7 pts)

READING COMPREHENSION: Read the text and decide if the statements are True (T) or False (F). You have
to correct the false statements. Write your answer in the spaces provided. (1 point each/7 pts)

STATEMENT
T F Long distance travel for pleasure has always been popular.

A: Long-distance travel for pleasure was rare before the mid-nineteenth century.
T F As a consequence of climate change, people will prefer hot areas to go on holidays in the future.
A: As climate warms, climate zones favorable to tourism will tend to shift toward the poles.
T F Tourism is an important income for many small islands which eventually could disappear.
A:

T F Low-lying cities such as Venice won´t be affected by global warming.

A: Low-lying cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana, and Venice, Italy, may undergo climate-
related changes that make them much less desirable as travel destinations.
T F Another way of diminishing car´s CO2 emissions is to deal with traffic congestion.
A: “Realizing emissions reductions in the transport sector is often a co-benefit of
addressing traffic congestion, air quality, and energy security.”
T F All greenhouse gases produce global warming and climate change.

A:
T F What concerns travel industry nowadays is that people will travel less, and they will choose
nearby places instead.
A:

I) B. Read the text again and answer the following questions. Provide full answers. (2 points each/10 pts)

1) Why is climate change a crucial factor to select your next tourist destination?

The climate change a crucial factor to select your next tourist destination because at areas that are now
comfortable may become too hot and solar radiation effects.

2) What environmental issue is threatening to alter the qualities of some ski resorts such as “El Colorado”
inChile?
Ski-industry losses have already occurred in Austria, Chile, the eastern United States, and Switzerland as
winters shorten and thaws become more common.

3) How does air travel damage the environment?


The aviation contributes about 2–3% of all human-caused (anthropogenic) carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and
about 13% of anthropogenic.

4) What is the main idea of the text?

The main idea of the text is: the effects Tourism contributes to climate change.

5) Which was the tourism industry´s fastest- growing sector in 2000?

Eco-tourism—travel to experience particular ecosystems—was the tourism industry's fastest-growing sector,


increasing at 20% per year and accounting for $154 billion dollars of business in 2000.

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II) Vocabulary in context. Complete the following sentences with words from the box. (2 points each/10 pts)

thaw wreck offsets accounts for worldwide

1. Peter has international friends because he has travelled worldwide


2. The Chilean market accounts for 40% of the company´s revenue.
3. Her car was a total wreck after the crash
4. Do you really think the ice poles will thaw completely some day?
5. Companies will have to get greenhouse gas emissions offsets ?

III) A. REFERENTS. Go back to the text and find out what these words refer to. (1 point each/5 pts)

1) it (paragraph 3 , line 8 ) it is forecast to


continue growing at 5% per year through at
least 2015.
2) them (paragraph 3 , line 11) almost half of them tourists
and almost all on jet aircraft;
3) them (paragraph 8 , line 7 ) may undergo climate-related changes that
make them much less desirable
as travel destinations.
4) they (paragraph 10 , line 13) individual offsets must be examined
carefully
to determine if they are producing authentic
reductions.
5) them (paragraph 11 , line 7 ) the possibility of
not visiting them at all.

III) B. Read the text again and classify these ideas in the order they appear in the
text.Write the number of the paragraph. (1 point each/5pts)

1. Tourism as a cause of climate change Paragraph 10


2. World´s largest industries Paragraph 4
3. Global warming as a menace for tourism business Paragraph 5
4. The number of islands of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean Paragraph 7
5. One area of recreation that may benefit from climate change Paragraph 9

III ) C. Select the correct answer. Look for similar ideas .(1 point each/3 pts)

1. Some national parks are likely to be glacier-free by 2030


a. without glaciers
b. Decreasing the number of glaciers
c. with glaciers
d. melting glaciers

2. Chile has experienced an unprecedented heat wave in the last 10 years


a. normal
b. common
c. never before seen
d. old

3. Environmental pollution and pollutants that are produced in human activity

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Programa de Inglés

a. ethnography emissions
b. anthropogenic emissions
c. anthropology emissions
d. anthropography emissions

A-3

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