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Tony Wheeler is the man behind the Lonely Planet guidebooks, books which are loved and hated in equal measure. It’s hard to pin
Tony Wheeler is the man behind the Lonely Planet guidebooks, books which are loved and hated in equal measure. It’s hard to pin
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2019-03-27
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Tony Wheeler is the man behind the Lonely Planet guidebooks, books which are loved and hated in equal measure. It’s hard to pin down why they provoke such violent emotion: once it was simply because they lied—you don’t turn up for the weekly Wednesday ferry to find that actually it goes on Tuesdays. Nowadays they are carefully researched, the information is generally true, and the maps are accurate.
【B1】______ Arrive in a place and out comes the book: Places to Stay, Things to See, Getting Around, Places to Eat—all of which is undeniably useful. But you end up living a life dictated by Wheeler, and that life might not be right for you. On top of that, everyone else has got one too, so instead of being the independent traveller you thought you were, you end up being just another tourist.
【B2】______His wife Maureen, who runs the company with him, is equally to blame. It all started in 1972 when, bored with Britain, they set off for Australia. They arrived in Sydney three months later with 27 cents between them. Tony sold his camera, then sat down and wrote about the trip. They put the pages together and took it around the local bookshops and one of the bookshops sold thousands of copies.
【B3】______Their 200-odd guidebooks cover nearly everywhere and there are phrasebooks, atlases, walking guides. They sell more than three million books a year and employ around 200 people. The Lonely Planet website is visited a million times a day and the Wheelers have replaced the van with a red Ferrari.
【B4】______ ’ My children have travelled all over the world so they’re aware of a lot of things,’ says Maureen and Tony agrees. ’ It helps you grow up a lot, just knowing how other people live and what happens in their countries. Secondly, being on your own, having to make your way from one place to the next and work out how you do that, gives you a self-sufficiency that I think is very important.
【B5】______There are people who say that by encouraging people to go places they’re destroying them—an accusation they both deny, claiming that people would go there anyway. They admit that none of this is bad for business. ’ All the publicity has sold our books.
Questions 61—65
Complete the article with the following sentences. There are two extra sentences that you do not need to use.
A. Twenty-five years on, Lonely Planet has, quite literally, taken over the world.
B. There has been controversy surrounding the guidebooks.
C. Getting a guidebook like the Lonely Planet right can be a tricky business.
D. No, it’s something about the way they take you over—you become a slave to the guidebook.
E. Tony Wheel is still very actively involved in the Lonely Planet guidebooks.
F. So what do they think about travel in general?
G. It’s not entirely fair to blame only Tony.
【B5】
选项
答案
B
解析
文章最后一段提到一些人认为鼓励人们去旅游,会破坏那些风景区,而Wheeler夫妇不赞成这个看法,他们认为旅游是对经济有好处的。B项中的“controversy(争论,分歧)”正好说明了最后一段的问题,故本题选B项。
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