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Yet the growth of tourism has opened up parts of the world and enabled travellers to go to places they could only have dreamed of thirty years ago. The meeting of different cultures in this way has led to a greater mingling of peoples and cultures and habits. Take food for example: Italian dishes such as spaghetti and Spanish rice dishes such as paella, are nowadays eaten all over the world. On a more serious level, tourism is often the developing countries' most important source of income. Foreign tourists bring in much needed foreign currency and this can help that country buy equipment and goods from abroad. In this way tourism is good for an area of the country. Test № 3 I. Определите, верны (True) или неверны (False) следующие утверждения. 1. Some people think that the growth of tourism has been harmful to nature. 2. Many tourists on a holiday abroad laugh at Me Donald's or other American companies. 3. Costa del Sol in Spain hadn't been a popular tourist place until a few decades ago. 4. Tourism has led to the disappearance of many cultures. II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы. 1. Where did the narrator's family usually go on holiday 30 years ago? 2. Where do tourists today try to find more exotic places for a holiday? 3. Why has tourism destroyed many local communities? 4. What dishes are nowadays eaten all over the world? III. Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста. 101
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