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B. Read the following passage and choose the correct answer from the options given

1.In 2019, there were 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals globally –this figure alone suggests

that a lot of us are travelling. The World Tourism Organization reports two major motivations for

this – “travel to change”: the quest for local experiences, authenticity, transformation and “travel

to show”: the desire for Instagramable moments and destinations.

2.Both trends are fuelled by curiosity about the unknown, the unfamiliar. Humans have always

looked for new experiences, ways to live, things to show to others. Travel magazines are strewn

with articles about visiting “overlooked” and “unknown” places – and this curiosity has a long

history.

3.Throughout his Antarctic explorations, Apsley Cherry-Garrard yearns for “unknown” places.

Mary Kingsley describes the “sheer good pleasure” of canoeing down an “unknown” West African

river by moonlight, and delights in places “not down” on maps. A character in Joseph Conrad’s

Heart of Darkness describes how “inviting” the “blank spaces on

the earth” seem and tells us about his hankering for the unfathomable.

4 .Often people perceive big, infinite landscapes such as mountains as divine. “Great cathedrals of

the earth” – as the Victorian thinker John Ruskin wrote of the Alps – “altars of snow”. Once

mountains had become cathedrals, everybody wanted to visit them.Similarly, the philosophy of

wilderness set out in American philosopher Henry Thoreau’s Walden started a craze for solitary

wilderness travel.

5.What counts as unknown depends on your starting point. For British sailor James Cook, Alaska

and Australia were “new” lands – but their indigenous inhabitants knew them well. Roman Syria

would have been unfamiliar to Chinese explorer Gan Ying, but not to the Syrians. Sometimes

journeys explore places unknown to all human beings: the depths of Son Doong caves, the under-

snow mountains of Antarctica, the Moon and Mars. Travel is at its most fascinating: when it look

to the borders of what humans do not know.

i. People travel for

a) they have no other hobby
b) they need to do research on different places

c) they are compelled to do so by the organizations they work for

d) they are inquisitive about the new and the unknown

ii. ‘Travel to show’ springs from a longing

a) to make a movie

b) to write a book

c) to eulogize nature

d) to display the spellbinding places one has visited

iii. People who ‘travel to change’ are on the lookout

a) for authentic local flavour in every place

b) for a transforming experience in the heart of a new place

c) for a transforming experience, authenticity and local flavour of a place

d) for a memorable incident

iv. Travel magazines are popular among people inspired by wanderlust as

a) they print glorious pictures of nature

b) they promote writings of Ruskin Bond and Thoreau

c) they print great itineraries

d) they print articles on places the ordinary traveller is unaware of or has mistakenly

ignored

v. Travel has been unwittingly promoted by writers and philosophers

a) through their glorification of nature

b) through their description of culture

c) through their enumeration of the cult of nature worship

d) through their appeal to pursue trails​

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