Cambridge IELTS 1 · Academic · Test 2 · Passage 3
Tourism — IELTS Reading Answers
All 14 answers for Tourism, Cambridge IELTS 1 Academic Reading Test 2 Passage 3, with the passage evidence and an explanation for each.
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Tourism answer key at a glance
Questions 28–41. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this passage tests
This passage is tested with Matching Headings (Q28–32), Yes / No / Not Given (Q33–37), Matching Sentence Endings (Q38–41). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 28–32: Matching Headings
Strategy: Read the paragraph first and summarise its main idea in five words. Choose the heading that matches the whole paragraph, not a repeated keyword.
Paragraph A
“The assumption is that the investigation of deviance can reveal interesting and significant aspects of normal societies It could be said that a similar analysis can be applied to tourism”
Paragraph A proposes that studying deviance reveals aspects of normal societies and that a similar analysis can be applied to tourism, a sociological approach.
Paragraph B
“Indeed acting as a tourist is one of the defining characteristics of being modern’ and the popular concept of tourism is that it is organised within particular places and occurs for regularised periods of time Tourist relationships arise from a movement of people to and their stay in various destinations This...”
Paragraph B defines tourism through movement to destinations and a regularised period of stay in new places, so the heading defining tourist activity fits.
Paragraph C
“new socialised forms of provision have developed in order to cope with the mass character of the gazes of tourists as opposed to the individual character of travel”
Paragraph C contrasts socialised mass provision with the individual character of travel, so the heading on mass tourism versus individual travel fits.
Paragraph E
“Isolated from the host environment and the local people the mass tourist travels in guided groups and finds pleasure in inauthentic contrived attractions gullibly enjoying the pseudo events and disregarding the real world outside”
Paragraph E describes the mass tourist in guided groups enjoying inauthentic contrived attractions and pseudo events, so the heading on artificial experiences fits.
Paragraph F
“The role of the professional, therefore, is to cater for the needs and tastes of the tourists in accordance with their class and overall expectations”
Paragraph F says the professional's role is catering for tourists' needs and tastes according to their class and expectations, so serving expectations fits.
Questions 33–37: Yes / No / Not Given
Strategy: These test the writer's opinions, not facts. Look for evaluative language, and treat 'may' or 'could' as weaker than the question's claim.
Tourism is a trivial subject.
“Tourism, holidaymaking and travel are these days more significant social phenomena than most commentators have considered”
The text says tourism is more significant than most commentators have considered, contradicting the claim that it is a trivial subject.
An analysis of deviance can act as a model for the analysis of tourism.
“The assumption is that the investigation of deviance can reveal interesting and significant aspects of normal societies It could be said that a similar analysis can be applied to tourism”
The writer says the assumption behind studying deviance reveals aspects of normal societies and that a similar analysis applies to tourism.
Tourists usually choose to travel overseas.
“Tourist relationships arise from a movement of people to and their stay in various destinations This necessarily involves some movement that is the journey and a period of stay in a new place or places”
The passage discusses movement to destinations but never says whether tourists usually travel overseas or stay within their own country.
Tourists focus more on places they visit than those at home.
“The viewing of these tourist sights often involves different forms of social patterning with a much greater sensitivity to visual elements of landscape or townscape than is normally found in everyday life People linger over these sights in a way that they would not normally do in their home environment”
People are more sensitive to landscape and linger over tourist sights in ways they would not at home, so they focus more on visited places.
Tour operators try to cheat tourists.
“The role of the professional, therefore, is to cater for the needs and tastes of the tourists in accordance with their class and overall expectations”
The professional's role is described as catering for tourists' needs and tastes; the passage never claims tour operators try to cheat them.
Questions 38–41: Matching Sentence Endings
Strategy: Complete the grammar first, then check the meaning. The ending must follow logically from the stem as well as appear in the passage.
Options for Questions 38–41
- Alocal people and their environment.
- Bthe expectations of tourists.
- Cthe phenomena of holidaymaking.
- Dthe distinction we make between work and leisure.
- Ethe individual character of travel.
- Fplaces seen in everyday life.
- Gphotographs which recapture our holidays.
- Hsights designed specially for tourists.
Our concept of tourism arises from ...
“Tourism is a leisure activity which presupposes its opposite namely regulated and organised work It is one manifestation of how work and leisure are organised as separate and regulated spheres of social practice in modern societies”
Tourism presupposes its opposite, regulated and organised work, and is one manifestation of how work and leisure are separated.
The media can be used to enhance ...
“Such anticipation is constructed and sustained through a variety of non-tourist practices such as films TV literature, magazines records and videos which construct and reinforce this daydreaming”
Films, TV, literature, magazines and videos construct and reinforce tourists' daydreaming, so the media enhance the expectations of tourists.
People view tourist landscapes in a different way from ...
“The viewing of these tourist sights often involves different forms of social patterning with a much greater sensitivity to visual elements of landscape or townscape than is normally found in everyday life”
Tourists show much greater sensitivity to visual landscape than is normally found in everyday life, i.e. places seen in everyday life.
Group tours encourage participants to look at ...
“the mass tourist travels in guided groups and finds pleasure in inauthentic contrived attractions gullibly enjoying the pseudo events”
The mass tourist in guided groups finds pleasure in inauthentic contrived attractions and pseudo events, i.e. sights designed specially for tourists.
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Where does the Tourism passage come from?
It is Passage 3 of Cambridge IELTS 1 Academic Reading Test 2, and it covers Questions 28–41.
What question types appear in Tourism?
The passage is tested with Matching Headings, Yes / No / Not Given, Matching Sentence Endings. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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