Test 12. Hotel History (H)
Directions: (Questions 1—5).
Choose the one best answer to each question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the text. Mark the answer on your answer sheet.
Задания: (1—5)
Прочитайте текст и ответьте на вопросы, выбрав один из предложенных вариантов ответа.
Отметьте свой выбор в бланке ответов.United States
The most dramatic hotel development, however, took place in the United States, where inns started in seaports in the 17lb century. As people moved inland, inns were built along the rivers and the post roads. One of the earliest inns was the Blue Anchor in Philadelphia (1682).
The first colonial post offices were established in 1710, and the inns multiplied and improved along the post roads. But guests often slept on the floor of the inn's long room with a dozen or more travellers of both sexes, feet toward the fireplace and heads pillowed on rolled-up coats. Inn signs were pictorial bccausc many of the colonial travellers could not read.
Resort hotels started early. One was built at Yellow Springs, Pa., after mineral springs were discovered there in 1722, and a hotel at York Sulphur Springs, Pa., opened in 1790. By 1830 Saratoga Springs, N. Y., had become the most fashionable watering placc in the United States. Hot Springs, Va., got its start at about that time, as did White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and the resort development at Niagara Falls. Long Branch Cape May and other towns along the New Jersey shore became popular resorts in the 1850s.
The hotel Tremont, opened in Boston in 1829, was the firs! truly luxurious hotel. It was the first to offer private bedrooms with locks on the doors; the first to have bellboys and room clerks. The Tremont was widely copied on the eastern sea-board and in Europe, but most especially in the American West, where the first building in each town was often a hotel.
Railroads had an enormous influence on hotel development; from the 1860s to the early 1920s most large hotels in major cities were built near railroad stations.
The 1920s set off the greatest hotel-building boom the United States had ever seen.
The initial effects of World War 11 were mostly negative.
Most hotels lost half their staff within a year after the war's start. But most hotels, fully booked and understaffed, had people sleeping in their public rooms. Profits were high but times were hard. A postwar hotel boom accompanied the growth of mass travel in the late 1950s and early 1960s.The lodging industry continued to grow in the 1970s and 1980s, although the worldwide recession of the late 1980s and early 1990s put a virtual halt to hotel- and motel- building in many areas.
Where were the first inns built? A along the rivers
В along the post roads С by the sea
The Blue Anchor was the name of...
A the hotel В the seaport С the ship
What region of the USA became famous owing to its resorts in the 18th century?
A Panama Area В Pennsylvania С the New Jersey shore
What modern conveniences did the hotel Tremont offer?
A individual bathrooms
В en-suite bedrooms
С breakfast in bed
At the beginning of the 20th century large hotels were
situated...
A on the sea-board
В at the railway stations
С in the capitals of the states
PartB
Directions: (Questions 6—16).
Test your vocabulary. Complete these sentences by using the correct word from the box. Use each word once only. There is an extra word which you do not need to use. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Задания: (6—16).
Закончите предложения, используя подходящее слово из рамки. Используйте каждое слово только один раз. В начале задания дан пример (0). В рамке есть лишнее слово, которое не нужно использовать. comfortable Europe signs the USA railroads coats luxurious the eastern sea-board negative railroad stations the floor the post roads the growth the rivers the fireplace public rooms
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