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    This document discusses polar tourism to the Arctic and Antarctic regions. It provides the following key points: 1) Tourism to the polar regions has increased significantly in recent decades, with over 1.5 million annual visitors to the Arctic and 38,200 to Antarctica. 2) Various factors have contributed to the growth in polar tourism, including climate change lengthening summer seasons, increased cruise ship visits, and the use of aircraft and vehicles for access. 3) Some regulations have recently been adopted to limit tourist numbers and impacts, such as passenger limits on ships and for landings in Antarctica. 4) There is debate around whether some tourists are visiting the poles sooner due to concerns about impacts of climate change

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    This document discusses polar tourism to the Arctic and Antarctic regions. It provides the following key points: 1) Tourism to the polar regions has increased significantly in recent decades, with over 1.5 million annual visitors to the Arctic and 38,200 to Antarctica. 2) Various factors have contributed to the growth in polar tourism, including climate change lengthening summer seasons, increased cruise ship visits, and the use of aircraft and vehicles for access. 3) Some regulations have recently been adopted to limit tourist numbers and impacts, such as passenger limits on ships and for landings in Antarctica. 4) There is debate around whether some tourists are visiting the poles sooner due to concerns about impacts of climate change

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    This document discusses polar tourism to the Arctic and Antarctic regions. It provides the following key points: 1) Tourism to the polar regions has increased significantly in recent decades, with over 1.5 million annual visitors to the Arctic and 38,200 to Antarctica. 2) Various factors have contributed to the growth in polar tourism, including climate change lengthening summer seasons, increased cruise ship visits, and the use of aircraft and vehicles for access. 3) Some regulations have recently been adopted to limit tourist numbers and impacts, such as passenger limits on ships and for landings in Antarctica. 4) There is debate around whether some tourists are visiting the poles sooner due to concerns about impacts of climate change

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    IELTS READING

    MATCHING FEATURES
    • In this type of task, you get a list of people, places or things and a list of sentences. You
    need to match each sentence with a person/place/thing.
    • In this type of task, the questions will not be in the same order as the passage, but the
    options e.g. people/places will be in text order.
    READING 1
    BECOME RICH AND FAMOUS THROUGH THE INTERNET

    In the past, to become famous you needed a talent: singing, playing an instrument, dancing or
    writing books. Nowadays, it is much easier to become famous. This is because of the internet.
    All you need is a camera or webcam, computer, internet connection and a bit of creativity.

    First of all, you need to decide what you are going to write or speak about: hair and makeup,
    comedy, sport, news and current affairs, raising money for a charity or something specialist
    like keeping tropical fish. Then choose a site to post on. Some sites are international and
    some may be particular to one country, such as Weibo in China. YouTube is a good site to
    choose if you make your own videos. It is easy to upload your short films, and many people
    use it.

    If you want to become famous on YouTube, you should make lots of videos and release one
    every day. YouTubers who become popular are often those who present tips, advice, 'how to'
    guides and opinions on entertainment or stories in the news. If you allow advertisements in
    your videos, you will make money when people view the adverts. Facebook is a good
    platform for those who want to make money, but not for those who want to be famous. To
    earn money through Facebook, you need a very original and/or funny page, with interesting
    photos which can get you a few hundred thousand 'likes'. If you achieve fame on Facebook, it
    probably won't last.

    Twitter is a social media site where people can communicate through short messages. It
    works well for those who want to be well-known but are not so interested in making money.
    If you want to become known on Twitter, you will need to post lots of entertaining content.
    lnstagram is a site where people mainly put up photos and videos. It is a site which can make
    you well-known, particularly if you want to become a famous photographer. ]

    Creating your own blog is possibly the best way to become internet famous and make money,
    through advertising, especially once you have become known on one of the sites above. You
    need to be aware of the topics and issues that are 'trending' (that are popular right now) and
    post about those ideas. Learn to create 'vines' (a series of short extracts from videos put
    together in a creative way) and become an expert on photo editing. With these few easily
    learnt skills and some imagination, you can achieve the fame you've always dreamed of -
    online at least.

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    Look at the following statements (1-6) and the list of websites below.
    Match each sentence with the correct website, A-E
    You may use any letter more than once
    1. You want to be rich and become famous.
    2. You want to take photographs as a career.
    3. You want people to know you but don’t care about money.
    4. You want to make money but not be famous.
    5. You can post a new film daily.
    6. You want to show people how to do something.

    List of Websites
    A YouTube
    B Facebook
    C Twitter
    D Instagram
    E your own blog
    EXAM TECHNIQUE:
    • Scan the reading passage for the websites A-E and underline them.
    • Underline key words in each sentence
    • Read the information around the first website (name, …), then read a list of
    statements to find the one(s) that match
    • Do the same for the remaining websites (names, ….)
    READING 2

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    Look at the following statements (1-6) and the list of animals below.
    Match each sentence with the correct website, A-C
    You may use any letter more than once
    Which animal …. Hé lô mai nem i bấy bi đon
    1. never forget their human friend?
    2. live part of their life in the wild?
    3. made large profits for the humans who cared for them?
    4. was not wanted by their parents
    5. has had valuable work done in their memory?
    6. is normally remembered at regular times?
    7. had souvenirs of them made?

    List of Animals
    A Hachiko
    B Knut
    C Elsa

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    READING 3
    Here today, gone tomorrow
    The Arctic and Antarctica are now within reach of the modern tourist, with many going to see
    these icy wildernesses before it's too late. Christian Amodeo reports on the growth of 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.
    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.
    Most visitors arrive by ship. In 2007, 370,000 cruise passengers visited Norway, twice the
    number that arrived in 2000. Iceland, a country where tourism is the second-largest industry, has
    enjoyed an annual growth rate of nine percent since 1990. Meanwhile, Alaska received some
    1,029,800 passengers, a rise of 7.3 percent from 2006. Greenland has seen the most rapid growth
    in marine tourism, with a sharp increase in cruise-ship arrivals of 250 percent since 2004.
    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 - but there has been a 760
    percent rise in land-based tourism there since 1997. More people than ever are landing at fragile
    sites, with light aircraft, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles increasingly used for greater access,
    while in the past two seasons, ‘fly-sail’ operations have begun. These deliver tourists by air to
    ships, so far more groups can enjoy a cruise in a season; large cruise ships capable of carrying up
    to 800 passengers are not uncommon.
    In addition, it seems that a high number of visitors return to the poles. ‘Looking at six years’
    worth of data, of the people who have been to the polar regions, roughly 25 percent go for a
    second time,’ says Louisa Richardson, a senior marketing executive at tour operator Exodus.
    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,’ says Rod Downie,
    Environmental Manager with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Large numbers of visitors
    increase these problems.
    Although polar tourism is widely accepted, there have been few regulations up until recently. At
    the meeting of the Antarctic Treaty in Baltimore, the 28 member nations adopted proposals for
    limits to tourist numbers. These included safety codes for tourist vessels in Antarctic waters, and
    improved environmental protection for the continent. They agreed to prevent ships with more
    than 500 passengers from landing in Antarctica, as well as limit the number of passengers going
    ashore to a maximum of 100 at any one time, with a minimum of one guide for every 20 tourists.
    ‘Tourism in Antarctica is not without its risks,’ says Downie. After all, Antarctica doesn’t have a
    coastguard rescue service.’
    ‘So far, no surveys confirm that people are going quickly to see polar regions before they
    change,’ says Frigg Jorgensen, General Secretary of the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise
    Operators (AECO). ‘However, Hillary Clinton and many other big names have been to Svalbard
    in the northernmost part of Norway to see the effects of climate change. The associated media
    coverage could influence others to do the same.’
    These days, rarely a week passes without a negative headline in the newspapers. The suffering
    polar bear has become a symbol of a warming world, its plight a warning that the clock is ticking.
    It would seem that this ticking clock is a small but growing factor for some tourists. ‘There’s an
    element of “do it now”,’ acknowledges Prisca Campbell, Marketing director of Quark

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    Expeditions, which takes 7,000 People to the poles annually. Leaving the trip until later, it seems,
    may mean leaving it too late.
    Look at the following statements (1-6) and the list of people below.
    Match each sentence with the correct person, A-D
    You may use any letter more than once
    1. Some tourists believe they should not delay their trip to the poles.
    2. There are some dangers to travelling in Antarctica.
    3. Some famous people have travelled to polar regions to look at the impacts of global
    warming
    4. Some tourists make more than one trip to the poles
    5. There is no evidence that visitors are hurrying to the poles.

    List of People
    A Louisa Richardson
    B Rod Downie
    C Frigg Jorgensen
    D Prisca Campbell

    READING 4
    Holidays with a difference
    Tribal tourism is becoming more popular. But at what cost to the locals?
    Tribal tourism is a relatively new type of tourism. It involves travellers going to
    remote destinations, staying with local people and learning about their culture and
    way of life. They stay in local accommodation, share facilities with local people, and
    join in with meals and celebrations. At the moment, less the one percent of holidays
    are tribal tourism holidays, but this is set to change.
    Tribal tourism is often compared with foreign exchange visits. However, a foreign
    exchange involves staying with people who often share the same values. Tribal
    tourism takes visitors to places where the lifestyle is very different from that in their
    home location. Those who have been on a tribal holiday explain that experiencing
    this lifestyle is the main attraction. They say that it offers them the chance to live in a
    way they never have before.

    Not everyone is convinced that tribal tourism is a good thing, and opinions are
    divided. The argument is about whether or not it helps the local population, or
    whether it exploits them. The main problem is that, because tribal tourism is
    relatively new, the long-term effects on local populations have not been studied in
    much detail. Where studies have been carried out, the effects have been found to be
    negative.

    Travel writer Ian Coleman recalls a recent trip to Guatemala, where he saw an
    example of this. "There is a village with a statue of a man called Maximon, who has

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    a special spiritual meaning for the local tribe" he explains. "The statue kept indoors,
    and once a year the locals bring him out and carry him around the village. However,
    visitors now pay money for them to bring the statue out and carry it around, while
    they take photographs. As a result, Maximon has lost his original meaning, and is
    now just another tourist attraction."

    So, is it possible to experience an exotic culture without harming it in some way?


    "With a bit of thought, we can maximize the positive impacts and minimize the
    negative," says travel company director Hilary Waterhouse. "Remember that you are
    there not only to experience a difference culture, but to help it in some way. Tourists
    bring money to the community, which the community can invest in local projects.
    However, this does not mean you can act the way you might do back home. The
    most important thing is to show respect, learn about, and be aware of, local customs
    and traditions. Always remember you're a guest".

    Dawn baker, manager of travel company Footprints, runs tours to tribal areas in
    Peru. 'Good companies specializing in tribal tours are very careful about who they
    allow on their tours', she says. 'They won't take anyone they feel is unsuitable'.
    Baker offers reading recommendations so that visitors.

    Dawn baker, manager of travel company Footprints, runs tours to tribal areas in
    Peru. 'Good companies specializing in tribal tours are very careful about who they
    allow on their tours', she says. 'They won’t take anyone they feel is unsuitable’.
    Baker offers reading recommendations so that visitors can read about the country
    and its cultures. 'The rewards of a trip to this country are priceless, and the more you
    know in advance, the more priceless they are'

    Tribal tourism travelers are often surprised at how basic their facilities are when they
    get there. 'It's not for everyone, but for me it was all part of the experience', says
    Jamie White, who has recently returned from a trip to Borneo. 'We stayed in the
    same huts that everyone was living in, with no running water and no electricity. It
    was basic, but it was an ethical way to travel. Being comfortable means you use
    more local resources and so have more of an environment impact.'

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    Look at the following statements (1-6) and the list of people below.
    Match each sentence with the correct person, A-D
    You may use any letter more than once
    1. Travellers may need to change the way they behave.
    2. Some travellers would not enjoy living the way that the local people do.
    3. Tribal tourism can have benefits for local people.
    4. Some travellers make local people do things that they would not normall do.
    5. Learning about a place before you go there makes your trip much more satisfying.

    List of People
    A Ian Coleman
    B Hilary Waterhouse
    C Dawn Baker
    D Jamie White

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