VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY–HOCHIMINH CITY Student’s full name: ...............................................................

UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS & LITERATURE
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION & INTERPRETING
Second-Degree Programme
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FINAL EXAMINATION
Course: ENGLISH FOR TOURISM
Time Allotted: 90 minutes Exam Date:

Approved by Proctor
Examiner Total Score
Dept. Chair (CBCT)
1. 1. Score in figures:

2. 2. Score in words:

Note: All materials and dictionaries are NOT allowed.

Students write their answers on the exam papert.

SECTION 1 VOCABULARY & READING COMPREHENSION (50 points)

A. With the knowledge you have studied, decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false
(F). (20 points)
1. The invention of television is one of the important developments affecting travel and tourism.
2. The word ‘holiday’ originally comes from ‘holy day’.
3. Thomas Cook was one of the pioneers of modern passenger air travel.
4. Refreshments consist of drinks and food.
5. The term ‘room service’ is used in hotels meanwhile ‘cabin steward’ is used in cruise ships.
6. One of the advantages of tourism is encouraging greed.
7. There are four simple stages of selling a travel product.
8. The Olympic Games of 776 BC were the first international tourist event, with people travelling from
many countries to watch and take part.
9. A sleeper is a place to sleep on a train - a type of bed.
10. A list of places to be visited on one journey can be seen on a brochure.
11. Providing travel insurance is one of the main functions of a travel agent.
12. You can get hot meals served by a waiter or waitress at a restaurant car on a train.
13. The work of a chambermaid is cleaning the rooms in a hotel.
14. Tourist attractions are places which tourists need to use.
15. A guard looks after a museum.
16. An incentive tour is a trip offered to a group of employees as a reward for good work.
17. A voyage is a long journey to a distant place by sea.

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 18. An all-inclusive holiday contains travel, accommodation and meals.
19. Freddie Laker was the first person to develop mass tourism.
20. The common abbreviation of ‘concerning’ is ‘re’.
Answers:

1. _______ 6. _______ 11. _______ 16. _______

2. _______ 7. _______ 12. _______ 17. _______
3. _______ 8. _______ 13. _______ 18. _______
4. _______ 9. _______ 14. _______ 19. _______
5. _______ 10. _______ 15. _______ 20. _______

B. Fill in the missing words in the sentences below. (20 points)

1. At an airport you will hear an announcement or see on the departures board that your flight is
_________.
2. A __________ will help hotel guests with their suitcases and bags.
3. At a travel company a tour operator will ________ and train staff.
4. ________ or special offers might be given for booking off-season or on unpopular dates.
5. Tours including travel, accommodation, and meals are called _______
6. _______ ________ is place where the guide and coach meet the passengers.
7. On the plane a ______ _______ will direct you to your seat.
8. Whisky is cheaper in the ______ _______ shop at the airport.
9. If you would like us to do any dry-cleaning or ________, please put it in the bag and call the room maid.
10. Most guides are _______ and are hired for particular jobs.
Answers:
1. ____________________ 6. ____________________
2. ____________________ 7. ____________________
3. ____________________ 8. ____________________
4. ____________________ 9. ____________________
5. ____________________ 10. ____________________

C. Read the passage and decide if the statements below are True (T) or False (F). (10 points)
SPACE HOTEL
‘Thank you for travelling with British Airways’ new Orbitours service. We are cruising at about 25,000 kph
at an altitude of ninety km, and have almost left the Earth’s atmosphere. In a few minutes we will start the
docking manoeuvre with the Tokyo Orbital International hotel….’
Japan’s Shimuzu Corporation is already making plans for the day that there are regular flights into space,
not for astronauts and cosmonauts, but for tourists and sightseers.
The company expects that, within thirty years, space will provide a vast new frontier for the adventurous.
Then anyone with enough money will be able to experience the thrill of space flight, from the push of high
g-forces on take off, to the moment when the sky changes from blue into the pitch black of space.
The elderly will enjoy a low gravity environment, where sleep is more comfortable than on earth.
Honeymooners will find that microgravity adds extra excitement to their first night together. And under the
flashing strobes of the low gravity discotheque, a new generation of bizarre dance styles will evolve.
As the aerospaceplane closes in on Tokyo Orbital International, passengers will witness a hotel that looks
quite unlike any on earth. Various sections will be connected to a central shaft, like meat on a skewer. At the
bottom of this cosmic shish-kebab will be the docking port. Above it there will be an inverted pyramid
holding the hotel lounge, and at the top there will be sixty-four separate rooms arranged in modules around
the edge of a vast eighty-metre diameter wheel.
Within them, the air will be cleaned by single-celled plants called algae, and artificial gravity will be created
by rotating the wheel at about three times a minute.

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Though it is only seventy percent of the earth’s pull, the artificial gravity will allow conventional hotel room
fittings such as flush lavatories, showers, and wash basins. The space tourist will enjoy luxury that will be a
far cry from the capsule hotels currently enjoyed by Japanese businessmen. Several hazards face the space
traveller, however.
Three million kilograms of junk are estimated to swarm within 2, 000 kilometres of earth. A piece just a few
centimetres in diameter could destroy the module on the hotel, so special measures will be required to
protect tourists.
The intrepid tourist may also suffer from a close relative of sea sickness – space adoption syndrome. Around
half of those who have gone into space suffer this unpleasant side-effect, though effective drugs are likely to
be available in the future to overcome the nausea and discomfort.
Space tourism will not come cheap – estimates of the cost abound, ranging from tens of thousands to
millions of dollars, depending on the trip, time-scale, available technology, and the market for the
experience. Some technical consultants estimate that the cost per seat could fall from $4 million in the space
shuttle to $10.000 in a ‘spacebus’.
As for whether space tourism will occur at all, we can look at the development of air travel. In the past sixty
years the number of people who cross the Atlantic has grown from a handful of dare devils to some 25
million a year.
If this pattern is repeated in space, there are bound to be commercial flights within the next sixty years.
1. The Shimuzu Corporation has started building the first space hotel.
2. The company expects that cheap space travel will be a reality within thirty years.
3. The space hotel is likely to appeal to different age groups.
4. The hotel lounge will be beneath the rooms.
5. The hotel will create its won gravity by spinning slowly.
6. Hotel guests will still be able to use facilities such as toilets.
7. The hotel will run the risk of being hit by pieces of debris in space.
8. About fifty per cent of today’s astronauts suffer from sea sickness.
9. Most experts agree on what the likely price of space travel will be.
10. Space travel will expand as rapidly as air travel.
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SECTION 2 OPEN QUESTIONS (20 points)

Write a paragraph (100 words) on the following topic
What do you know about the development of tourism in Vietnam?
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SECTION 3 WRITING (30 points)

THE END OF THE TEST

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