Fashions in sightseeing - Module 6

C2 Proficiency · Multiple Choice Cloze · Expert Proficiency Resource Book, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

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notoriously

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reportedly

remarkably

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The question of what (0) ___ an entertaining sightseeing excursion is just as (1) ___ to the whim of fashion as any other leisure activity. A trip around the spectacular coastal scenery of western Scotland is now a (2) ___ attractive option but a couple of centuries ago that same landscape was (3) ___ , a wild and scary wasteland. Increasingly, in western Europe, safely decommissioned mines and other (4) ___ of the region's industrial heritage are now being renamed as visitor attractions, whilst redundant factories and power stations get a new (5) ___ of life as shopping centres and art galleries. This (6) ___ the question: if defunct industrial sites can attract tourists, then why not functioning ones? The Yokkaichi Factory Scenery Night Cruise is just one of several industrial sightseeing tours now available in Japan. These are part of an emerging niche tourist trade, (7) ___ by a craze amongst young urbanites to reconnect with the country's industrial base. Seeing the oil refineries and steelworks at night, when lights and flares are more visible, apparently (8) ___ to the aesthetic charm of the experience.

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