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Text 1.

Read the text and answer the questions. Choose a, b, c or d.

People are no longer content with being tourists. They want to mingle with the locals for an ‘authentic’ experience.

Hoping to cater to this demand for authenticity, the travel industry has come up with interesting programs that allow people to dine in the homes of Italian ‘nonnas’, or grandmothers (homefood.it), meet Parisian sat work or in their homes (meetingthefrench.com) or paint the town red with ‘real’ Danes, Spaniards, and Norwegians (nightlifefriend.is). However, if you’re paying for something, it’s probably not ‘authentic’.

Too often, travelers are disappointed with the ‘real’ locals. They are upset that Australians don’t act like the film character Crocodile Dundee, that Samoans have televisions, and that even people in the poorest towns of India have mobile phones. They don’t mind having fast food in their own city, but feel robbed when it exists abroad. Furthermore, they complain that traditional lifestyles have been ruined and feel cheated not to have experienced something ‘authentic’.

(Line 12) Then there are very expensive package tours that take people to remote villages far off the beaten path. The more the villagers interact with the visitors, the more the area changes. Whether they like it or not, foreigners leave behind their footprint. What is ‘authentic’ slowly fades away to become something new, but perhaps just as ‘authentic’.

As travelers fiddle with their cameras taking photos of locals as though they were zoo attractions, they forget to notice that there are ‘authentic’ moments happening all around them. Authenticity cannot be planned. It just ‘is’ and should be accepted for what it is. If you search for it, you’ll never find it because you’ll be too busy expecting it to be something else.

1. According to the text, what do people today look for when they travel?

Text 1.

Read the text and answer the questions. Choose a, b, c or d.

People are no longer content with being tourists. They want to mingle with the locals for an ‘authentic’ experience.

Hoping to cater to this demand for authenticity, the travel industry has come up with interesting programs that allow people to dine in the homes of Italian ‘nonnas’, or grandmothers (homefood.it), meet Parisian sat work or in their homes (meetingthefrench.com) or paint the town red with ‘real’ Danes, Spaniards, and Norwegians (nightlifefriend.is). However, if you’re paying for something, it’s probably not ‘authentic’.

Too often, travelers are disappointed with the ‘real’ locals. They are upset that Australians don’t act like the film character Crocodile Dundee, that Samoans have televisions, and that even people in the poorest towns of India have mobile phones. They don’t mind having fast food in their own city, but feel robbed when it exists abroad. Furthermore, they complain that traditional lifestyles have been ruined and feel cheated not to have experienced something ‘authentic’.

(Line 12) Then there are very expensive package tours that take people to remote villages far off the beaten path. The more the villagers interact with the visitors, the more the area changes. Whether they like it or not, foreigners leave behind their footprint. What is ‘authentic’ slowly fades away to become something new, but perhaps just as ‘authentic’.

As travelers fiddle with their cameras taking photos of locals as though they were zoo attractions, they forget to notice that there are ‘authentic’ moments happening all around them. Authenticity cannot be planned. It just ‘is’ and should be accepted for what it is. If you search for it, you’ll never find it because you’ll be too busy expecting it to be something else.

What is the writer’s opinion of programs that claim to provide authentic experiences?

Text 1.

Read the text and answer the questions. Choose a, b, c or d.

People are no longer content with being tourists. They want to mingle with the locals for an ‘authentic’ experience.

Hoping to cater to this demand for authenticity, the travel industry has come up with interesting programs that allow people to dine in the homes of Italian ‘nonnas’, or grandmothers (homefood.it), meet Parisian sat work or in their homes (meetingthefrench.com) or paint the town red with ‘real’ Danes, Spaniards, and Norwegians (nightlifefriend.is). However, if you’re paying for something, it’s probably not ‘authentic’.

Too often, travelers are disappointed with the ‘real’ locals. They are upset that Australians don’t act like the film character Crocodile Dundee, that Samoans have televisions, and that even people in the poorest towns of India have mobile phones. They don’t mind having fast food in their own city, but feel robbed when it exists abroad. Furthermore, they complain that traditional lifestyles have been ruined and feel cheated not to have experienced something ‘authentic’.

(Line 12) Then there are very expensive package tours that take people to remote villages far off the beaten path. The more the villagers interact with the visitors, the more the area changes. Whether they like it or not, foreigners leave behind their footprint. What is ‘authentic’ slowly fades away to become something new, but perhaps just as ‘authentic’.

As travelers fiddle with their cameras taking photos of locals as though they were zoo attractions, they forget to notice that there are ‘authentic’ moments happening all around them. Authenticity cannot be planned. It just ‘is’ and should be accepted for what it is. If you search for it, you’ll never find it because you’ll be too busy expecting it to be something else.

Why are travellers often disappointed with the ‘real’ locals?

Text 1.

Read the text and answer the questions. Choose a, b, c or d.

People are no longer content with being tourists. They want to mingle with the locals for an ‘authentic’ experience.

Hoping to cater to this demand for authenticity, the travel industry has come up with interesting programs that allow people to dine in the homes of Italian ‘nonnas’, or grandmothers (homefood.it), meet Parisian sat work or in their homes (meetingthefrench.com) or paint the town red with ‘real’ Danes, Spaniards, and Norwegians (nightlifefriend.is). However, if you’re paying for something, it’s probably not ‘authentic’.

Too often, travelers are disappointed with the ‘real’ locals. They are upset that Australians don’t act like the film character Crocodile Dundee, that Samoans have televisions, and that even people in the poorest towns of India have mobile phones. They don’t mind having fast food in their own city, but feel robbed when it exists abroad. Furthermore, they complain that traditional lifestyles have been ruined and feel cheated not to have experienced something ‘authentic’.

(Line 12) Then there are very expensive package tours that take people to remote villages far off the beaten path. The more the villagers interact with the visitors, the more the area changes. Whether they like it or not, foreigners leave behind their footprint. What is ‘authentic’ slowly fades away to become something new, but perhaps just as ‘authentic’.

As travelers fiddle with their cameras taking photos of locals as though they were zoo attractions, they forget to notice that there are ‘authentic’ moments happening all around them. Authenticity cannot be planned. It just ‘is’ and should be accepted for what it is. If you search for it, you’ll never find it because you’ll be too busy expecting it to be something else.

What does ‘off the beaten path’ mean in line 12?

Text 1.

Read the text and answer the questions. Choose a, b, c or d.

People are no longer content with being tourists. They want to mingle with the locals for an ‘authentic’ experience.

Hoping to cater to this demand for authenticity, the travel industry has come up with interesting programs that allow people to dine in the homes of Italian ‘nonnas’, or grandmothers (homefood.it), meet Parisian sat work or in their homes (meetingthefrench.com) or paint the town red with ‘real’ Danes, Spaniards, and Norwegians (nightlifefriend.is). However, if you’re paying for something, it’s probably not ‘authentic’.

Too often, travelers are disappointed with the ‘real’ locals. They are upset that Australians don’t act like the film character Crocodile Dundee, that Samoans have televisions, and that even people in the poorest towns of India have mobile phones. They don’t mind having fast food in their own city, but feel robbed when it exists abroad. Furthermore, they complain that traditional lifestyles have been ruined and feel cheated not to have experienced something ‘authentic’.

(Line 12) Then there are very expensive package tours that take people to remote villages far off the beaten path. The more the villagers interact with the visitors, the more the area changes. Whether they like it or not, foreigners leave behind their footprint. What is ‘authentic’ slowly fades away to become something new, but perhaps just as ‘authentic’.

As travelers fiddle with their cameras taking photos of locals as though they were zoo attractions, they forget to notice that there are ‘authentic’ moments happening all around them. Authenticity cannot be planned. It just ‘is’ and should be accepted for what it is. If you search for it, you’ll never find it because you’ll be too busy expecting it to be something else.

What, accordingto the writer, is ‘authenticity’?

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.

Read the text and choose the correct answer, True or False.

Rubber

We all know what rubber is. We have seen it on the wheels of cars; we have used it to rub out mistakes in drawing. When we press a piece of rubber, we change its shape. But as soon as we stop pressing, the rubber springs back to its first shape; we therefore say that rubber is elastic.
Rubber was first used to make rubber balls. In 1492, Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America. One of the many strange things which he and his men saw in America was a game played with rubber balls.
They noticed that the rubber balls bounced much better than the balls which they had used in their own country. When they sailed home again, they told their friends that the balls were made from the gum of a tree.
Hundreds of years had passed before rubber was used in Europe and other parts of the world. Small pieces of rubber were brought to Europe, and kept by people who liked to collect strange things; but no one thought that rubber could be useful.
Then an artist found out that rubber would rub out pencil marks. That was one of the first uses of rubber, and that is how it came to be called 'rubber'.
Rubber trees grow only in countries where it is very hot and very damp. These countries are near the equator. It was not easy to find the trees. In those hot, damp lands, trees of many kinds grow so close together that it is difficult to travel through the forests.
The men who were hunting for rubber trees found them growing wild in South America, in Central America, and in West Africa. Nearly all the world's rubber came from the great forests of America and West Africa.