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dilemmas. For centuries, medicine was impotent and hence unproblematic. From the Greeks to the Great War, its job was simple: to struggle with lethal diseases and gross disabilities, to ensure live births, and to manage pain. It performed these uncontroversial tasks by and large with meagre success. Today, with mission acplished, medicine’s triumphs are dissolving in disorientation. Medicine has led to vastly inflated expectations, which the public has eagerly swallowed. Yet as these expectations grow unlimited, they bee unfulfillable. The task facing medicine in the twentyfirst century will be to redefine its limits even as it extend its capacities. 19. In the author’s opinion, the prolongation of life is equal to ______ A. mobility. B. deprivation. C. autonomy. D. awareness. 20. In the second paragraph a parison is drawn between ______ A. medicine and life. B. resources and energies. C. predicaments and solutions. D. athletics and longevism. TEXT D The biggest problem facing Chile as it promotes itself as a tourist destination 中国最大的管理资料下载中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版权归原作者所有 ) 第 9 页 共 29 页 to be reckoned with, is that it is at the end of the earth. It is too far south to be a convenient stop on the way to anywhere else and is much farther than a relatively cheap halfday’s flight away from the big tourist markets, unlike Mexico, for example. Chile, therefore, is having to fight hard to attract tourists, to convince travellers that it is worth ing halfway round the world to visit. But it is succeeding, not only in existing markets like the USA and Western Europe but in new territories, in particular the Far East. Markets closer to home, however, are not being fotten. More than 50% of visitors to Chile still e from its nearest neighbour, Argentina, where the cost of living is much higher. Like all South American countries, Chile sees tourism as a valuable earner of foreign currency, although it has been far more serious than most in promoting its image abroad. Relatively stable politically within the region, it has benefited from the problems suffered in other areas. In Peru, guerrilla warfare in recent years has dealt a heavy blow to the tourist industry and fear of street crime in Brazil has reduced the attraction of Rio de Janeiro as a dream destination for foreigners. More than 150,000 people are directly involved in Chile’s tourist sector, an industry which earns the country more than US’950 million each year. The staterun National Tourism Service, in partnership with a number of private panies, is currently running a worldwide campaign, taking part in trade fairs and international events to attract visitors to Chile. Chile’s great strength as a tourist destination is its geographical diversity. From the parched Atacama Desert in the north to the Antarctic snowfields of the south, it is more than 5,000km long. With the Pacific on one side and the 中国最大的管理资料下载中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版权归原作者所有 ) 第 10 页 共 29 页 Andean mountains on the other, Chile boasts natural attractions. Its beaches are not up to Caribbean standards but resorts such as Vina del Mar are generally clean and unspoilt and have a high standard of services. But the trump card is the Andes mountain range. There are a number of excellent ski resorts within one hour’s drive of the capital, Santiago, and the national parks in the south are home to rare animal and plant species. The parks already attract specialist visitors, including mountaineers, who e to climb the technically difficult peaks, and fishermen, lured by the salmon and trout in the region’s rivers. However, infrastructural development in these areas is limited. The ski resorts do not have as many lifts as their European counterparts and part poor quality of roads in the south means that only the most determined travellers see the best of the national parks. Air links between Chile and the rest of the world are, at present, relatively poor. While Chile’s two largest airlines have extensive works within South America, they operate only a small number of routes to the US and Europe while services to Asia are almost nonexistent. Internal transport links are being improved and luxury hotels are being built in one of its national parks. Nor is development being restricted to the Andes. Easter Island and Chile’s Antarctic Territory are also on the list of areas where the Government believes it can create tourist markets. But the rush to open hitherto inaccessible areas to mass tourism is not being weled by everyone. Indigenous and environmental groups, including Greenpeace, say that many parts of the Andes will suffer if they bee overdeveloped. There is a genuine fear that areas of Chile will suffer the cultural destruction witnessed in Mexico and European resorts. 中国最大的管理资料下载中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版权归原作者所有 ) 第 11 页 共 29 页 The policy of opening up Antarctica to tourism is also politically sensitive. Chile already has permanent settlements on the ice and many people see the decision to allow tourists there as a political move, enhancing Santiago’s territorial claim over part of Antarctica. The Chilean Government has promised to respect the environment as it seeks to bring tourism potential. The Government will have to monitor developments closely if it is genuinely concerned in creating a balanced, controlled industry and if the price of an increasingly lucrative tourist market is not going to mean the loss of many of Chile’s natural riches. 21. Chile is disadvantaged in the promotion of its tourism by ______ A. geographical location. B. guerrilla warfare. C. political instability. D. street crime. 22. Many of Chile’s tourists used to e from EXCEPT ______ A. . B. the Far East. C. western Europe. D. her neighbours. 23. According to。