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READING Matching

TOPIĆ Travel and tourism

EXAM TIPS

►    Read the text through ąuickly before you start the task. You will get a generał idea of what it is about.

►    When you have to match headings to a text, read each paragraph in the text carefully and work out the main idea.

►    Be careful of distractors.

1    Read the text ąuickly. Decide whether the statements (1-3) are true (T) or false (F).

1    The article describes holidays a century from now.

2    The dream island will have many facilities._

3    Building work could be challenging._

2    Read the text again carefully. Match the summaries (a-g) with the paragraphs (1-7).

a	the current plan
b	proposed uses for the i
c	ship construction
f	a new concept
	a model of the island

Now complete the EXAM TASK.

EXAM TASK

Read the text carefully and match the headings (a-i) with the paragraphs. Write the appropriate letter in the gaps (1-7). There are two headings you do not need. a Impossible to build? b Who is Jules Verne? c Dream or reality? d Everything you need e The 21st century plan f Resort or home? g Too big to move h Facts and figures i The original idea

DREAM ISLAND

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Imagine a cruise ship of such proportions that it possesses its own raił network, yacht harbour, and artificial lakę with a central island. Or imagine a floating holiday resort, similar in size to the Vatican, which can cruise from one tourist destination to another - forever.

P)_

Over 100 years ago, the novelist Jules Veme described a huge ship called Standard Island. The vessel was 27 kilometres square, and produced its own food and water. This fictional boat carried millionaires on an endless journey around the Pacific, avoiding hardship and stoimy weather.

(3) _

Now a French shipbuilding company is thinking of constructing a smaller scalę version of Jules Veme’s imaginary island. Their product will be 400 m by 300 m, have a maximum speed of 20 kph, and be capable of accommodating around 10,000 people.

(4) -

This 'dream island’ would indude a lakę lined with beaches, a harbour at the rear, and blocks of apartments up to fifteen storeys high. The design also features extensive shopping areas, theatres, bars, casinos, cinemas, and a light railway system to transport inhabitants from one part of the island to another.

(5) -

Developers have suggested that the 'island' could be a cruise ship which never retums to port and instead follows the sun from one tourist destination to another. Other proposals have highlighted the appeal to billionaires, who could benefit from the tax status of international waters. The fact that the ship would permanently be at sea also means that specific national laws could be avoided. Possibilities are numerous, but as yet, nothing has been decided.

(6) _

Engineers believe that constructing on such a large scalę should pose no particular problems, even though the plans outline a vessel four times the size of today's largest ship. To ensure that the ship could be properly launched, the plans are to build it offshore, in the same way that oil platforms are currently assembled.

P)_

The shipbuilders, who are looking for potential investors, and possible orders, are building a large model of the island for the next Sea Trade Show in Miami. The name of the vessel has not been decided yet, but a good choice might be Jules Verne.

(Mord University Press

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