Polar tourism

"Travel at the North and South Poles has become an expensive leisure activity, suitable for tourists of all ages. The poles may be inhospitable places, but they are seeing increasing numbers of visitors."

The most suitable synonym for inhospitable is:

• hospitable

• unwelcoming

• chilly

• frosty

"Annual figures for the Arctic, where tourism has existed since the 19th century, have increased from about a million in the early 1990s to more than 1.5 million today. This is partly because of the lengthening summer season brought about by climate change."

The synonym of lengthening is:

• extending

• expansion

• widening

• broadening

"Iceland, a country where tourism is the second-largest industry, has enjoyed an annual growth rate of nine percent since 1990."

The synonym for annual is:

• daily

• monthly

• yearly

• weekly

"The global economic downturn may have affected the annual 20.6 percent rate of increase in visitors to the Antarctic."

The best synonym for downturn in this sentence is:

• slump

• crisis

• dip

• decline

"The global economic downturn may have affected the annual 20.6 percent rate of increase in visitors to the Antarctic - last season saw a drop of 17 percent to 38,200."

What is the correct meaning of "a drop of 17 percent to 38,200" in Vietnamese?

• một sự giảm còn 17%

  là 38,200.

• Một sự giảm khoảng 17% xuống mức 38,200.

• Một sự giảm của 17% tới 38,200,

• Một sự giảm xuống 17% khoảng 38,200.

"There has been a 760 percent rise in land-based tourism there since 1997."

What is the synonym for land-based?

• onshore

• offshore

• inland

• outland

"More people than ever are landing at fragile sites, with light aircraft, helicopters".

What is the most suitable synonym for fragile in the sentence?

• easily threatened

• easily destroyed

• easily broken

• easily worn-out

"More people than ever are landing at fragile sites, with light aircraft, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles increasingly used for greater access."

What is the synonym for all-terrain in the sentence?

• all province

• all area

• all land region

• all land surface

"More people than ever are landing at fragile sites, with light aircraft, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles increasingly used for greater access."

The word light in the sentence describes the aircraft's .........?

• weight

• height

• width

• depth

"In the same period that tourism has exploded, the ‘health’ of the poles has ‘deteriorated’. ‘The biggest changes taking place in the Antarctic are related to climate change."

The word deteriorated describes a ............... trend?

• positive

• negative

• neutral

• I don't know