英国《卫报》网站6月1日文章：欢迎来到香格里拉
welcome to shangri-la
jonathan watts in shangri-la
thursday june 1, 2006
the guardian
flashing red neon tubes light up the way to the karaoke bar in shangri-la's paradise hotel. five minutes further on is the shangri-la "old town", built from scratch in the past two years. the elegantly carved wooden buildings are already full of trinket[1] sellers offering fluffy yaks and prayer beads, while black-market hawkers[2] walk the cobbled[3] streets touting f_______① rolex watches and ray-ban sunglasses.
（1）the transformation of this once remote community into a sightseeing hub is part of a new phase of china's economic expansion, which is taking the modernisation drive into some of the most remote places on earth, reducing poverty but ruining the environment.
for most of the past 50 years, this fertile plain, ringed by snow-capped mountains and home to a r_______② mix of ethnic communities, was designated as zhongdian, a county in the diqing tibetan autonomous prefecture of north-west yunnan prefecture. in 2001, zhongdian county was renamed as xiang-ge-ri-la. in the year before the name-change, shangri-la received 20,000 visitors. last year, the number surged to 2.6 million. （2）formerly inaccessible except by a mountain road, the town can now be reached by flights to the new zhongdian airport, which is being expanded in the expectation of a tripling of visitors over the next 15 years.
this is putting enormous pressure on the environment. tour buses now speed through the grasslands formerly occupied only by wild boar and yaks. cable cars have been built on the azalea[4]-bedecked hillsides and new hotels are under construction.
_____________________________. （地方官员欢迎旅游业为这个曾经贫困的地区带来经济利益。）according to the shangri-la government, revenues have risen sixfold in the past 10 years. but they acknowledge that the 60% annual increase in tourist numbers is putting enormous pressure on the f________③ environment.
"ideally, a growth rate of about 10% a year would be easier to manage, but （3）our priority is to promote economic development and to boost the incomes of local people," said a wa, the head of the shangri-la tourism bureau. "so we must try to minimise the impact on the environment. our aim is to attract more high-income tourists because they are more c_______④ of the need to protect the ecology and they are bigger consumers."
"overall tourism is good. if we didn't have this, we would rely on logging or mining, which are more d________⑤," said ziren pingcuo, a tibetan photographer and environmental activist. "but it is hurting the ecology, and not enough of the benefits are passed on to local people."
注释：
[1]trinket n.小装饰品；不值钱的珠宝
[2]hawker n.叫卖小贩
[3]cobbled adj.用鹅卵石铺路的
[4]azalea n.杜鹃花
试一试：
1．翻译划线部分英文：
参考译文：
2．根据译文，写出句子：
参考译文：local officials welcome the economic benefits that tourism brings to a formerly impoverished area.[/replyview]
3.根据首字母提示和译文，写出相应单词：
①f_______ rolex watches and ray-ban sunglasses（假冒劳力士手表和雷朋太阳镜）
②home to a r_______ mix of ethnic communities（很多少数民族共同的家园）
③the f________ environment（脆弱的环境）
④more c_______ of the need to protect the ecology（保护生态的意识更强）
⑤more d________（破坏性更大）
参考答案：
①fake ②rich ③fragile ④conscious ⑤destructive