READING (16) BUILDING SKILLS CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST

 

CAMBRIDGE PREPARATION FOR THE TOEFL® IBT TEST BUILDING SKILLS READING (16)

 

EXERCISES R4-R8 Use Exercises R4-R8 to build your skills in understanding the connection of ideas in reading passages. EXERCISE R4 Locating referents within a passage Read the sentence. Choose the letter of the word or phrase that best completes the sentence that follows it.   1 One of the most potentially explosive international problems is that of mass tourism. Of the more than six billion people in the world, an increasing number of them are determined to travel. Annually a vast number of travel-hungry tourists traipse around the globe, and thousands of perfect beaches, quaint villages, historic cities, and regions of exquisite natural beauty have become victims of developers’ building schemes. Attempts to accommodate these people have led to the destruction of the very attractions that they have come to enjoy and have made daily living almost impossible for the local residents. The phrase ‘these people’ in the passage refers to A people in the world B tourists C developers D residents

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