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| By coach, by train, by ship, and by plane, millions of tourists annually depart from home like migrating summer birds. They provide the best possible evidence to prove that the world is not nearly as big as it used to be. For the modern tourist is no Marco Polo. He ventures forth into the unknown and returns home in a matter of weeks, not years. Furthermore, he is armed with pamphlets,maps and weighty guidebooks which tell him where to |
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get there, and where to stay, what to see and what to eat when he arrives. There are travel agencies everywhere to cater for his needs and make all the necessary preparations for him. They make out ambitious programs and promise to whisk him through as many as six countries in fourteen days or, if he is in a hurry, they will cover much the same ground in eight or less.
The tourist begins planning his campaign in the dismal winter months. Spread out before him on the floor is a splendid array of brightly－colored leaflets, all of them equally tempting. Now is the time for big decisions to be made, for a fortnight’s holiday is not to be squandered lightly. Would he like to go to a place where the sun shines all the year round ?Would he like to taste the rare delicious of a distant seaside restaurant? And above all, would he like to visit a spot where there are no other tourists? It is all there for the asking. Shivering before the fire and armed with paper and pencil, the tourist makes rapid calculations. It takes him a long time to decide in which particular paradise he should invest his hard-earned money. |
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Once he had make up one's mind ,the tourist is free from worry. He now has something definite to discuss with his friends at the office. They listen with envy as he talks knowledgeably about a stretch of coastline which is two thousand miles away. These poor old stay-at-homes wonder how he came to be so well informed and beg him to send them postcards. In the tourist’s mind there is now a little haven of peace and quiet which he can retire to when life gets too much for him. The idea that he will visit a place where the inhabitants do not know what an overcoat is consoles and comforts him during the bitter winter
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吉林大学远程教育学院
Distant Education College, Jilin University
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