Boy, tourism really is a big business these days. It's (36) ______ . It involves hotels, transportation, restaurants, shops, and thousands of people. The tour companies keep telling us what a good thing it is... about how much we can learn about people and (37) ______ , but sometimes I wonder if this is really true.

A (38) ______ that I know went abroad last summer. They traveled with a tour group. It's interesting to (39) ______ their experiences with some of the experiences of other people in the same tour group. My friends, (40) ______ , had some acquaintances, or friends, actually, along the (41) ______ of their tour. In some of the cities they were going to, they knew some local people. When they got to (42) ______ places, they could go out with some of the local people and they could eat some of the local food and maybe see some of the local (43) ______ .

Other members of the tour group, however, never got away from the group at all. They never went out and did a thing on their own. (44) __________________________________________________________ .

I understand why people wouldn't go out on their own (45) _______________________________________________________ . But it seems to me that (46) _________________________________________________________________________ . If tour companies emphasized that, everyone really would learn about other people and other customs.

答案解析：

Section C Compound Dictation

36. 答案：amazing

解析：此处需要名词或形容词进一步描述tourism。注意不要拼成amasing。

37. 答案：customs

解析：根据并列结构可知此处需要名词。custom意为“风俗”。

38. 答案：couple

解析：根据下一句的代词they可知此处需要表示人的集体名词。couple意为“一对”。

39. 答案：compare

解析：根据前面的to可知此处为动词原形，且能与其后的with构成搭配。注意不要写成compel（迫使）。compare...with...意为“把……与……相比。”

40. 答案：fortunately

解析：根据此空的位置（主语与谓语之间）可知应该是个副词。

41. 答案：routes

解析：此处需要名词，要根据主题、上下文确定同音词的选择，此文介绍旅游，当然更可能提及的是routes（路线），不是roots（根）。

42. 答案：different

解析：此处需要形容词修饰其后的places。注意此词有两个f。

43. 答案：sights

解析：此处需要复数名词，跟此词同音的有cites，sites，而旅游更可能是观光，与cites（引用）和sites（遗址，场所）的关系不大。

44. 标准答案：Of course the tour company leaves it pretty much up to the people to do whatever they want

听音关键：tour company, leaves much to the people, whatever

答案重构：Of course the tour company allows people much freedom to do anything they want

画龙点睛：此题关键是把握leave sth. up to sb. to do结构。

45. 标准答案：because of language problems and being a little bit afraid

听音关键：language problems, afraid

答案重构：because they have language problems and are a bit afraid

画龙点睛：此题较简单，要记下两个因素。可改写成从句。

46. 标准答案：the more tourists can mix with local people, the better off everyone is

听音关键：the more, mix, the better off

答案重构：the more tourists can stay with local people, the more benefits everyone can get

画龙点睛：此题是the more...the more结构，注意短语better off是“状况好的”的意思。