2023年春節，旅游業強勁復蘇

胡靜

With most of the COVID-19 restrictions lifted in China and the infection peak now passed， the hustle and bustle （喧鬧） of Spring Festival has returned and the world’s second-largest economy is poised for economic recovery.

Hundreds of millions of Chinese people joined the Spring Festival travel rush around the nation’s most important traditional holiday.

A huge number of people took long-awaited vacations during the holiday， leading to a strong recovery and boosting further confidence in the tourism sector.

Some 308 million domestic tourism trips were made in the period， up 23.1 percent from the same period last year and recovering to 88.6 percent of the figure for the same holiday in 2019， according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Consumption is returning to the normal growth track faster than expected. During the holiday， authorities in Jiangsu offered tourism consumption coupons， and free entrance and public transport， to aid the recovery. The province received over 41.3 million domestic tourists， 21 percent higher than the level in 2019， and tourism revenue was 0.6 percent higher than the level in 2019.

“During the holiday， the average occupancy rate of our guesthouses was close to 90 percent，” said Liu Guang， general manager of a countryside tourism resort in Nanjing， capital of Jiangsu province.

During the holiday， tourists swarmed into Weizhou Island， the youngest volcanic island in China， located in Beihai. Yang Xiaojun flew to Beihai with family and friends for a six-day vacation. “Due to the epidemic， we usually took short-distance self-driving tours in our home province of Hunan during the Spring Festival holidays in the past couple of years，” said Yang. “We decided to travel a little farther this year.”

Dai Bin， president of the China Tourism Academy， said that travel demand has bounced back， with family visits and holiday travel during the Spring Festival holiday of 2023， kicking off （開始） a rosy start and sustained recovery of the tourism sector.

（材料出自China Daily，2023年1月31日，有刪改）

1. What does the underlined word “lifted” in the first paragraph mean？

A. Removed. B. Raised. C. Placed. D. Limited.

2. The number of domestic tourism trips made during the Spring Festival period in 2019 was__________.

A. about 272.9 million B. about 71.1 million

C. about 41.3 million ? D. about 347.6 million

3.The word in paragraph 6 is used to show______________.

A. the popularity of the Spring Festival

B. the relationship between consumption and travel

C. the recovery of tourism during the Spring Festival

D. the occupancy of a hotel

4. Which of the statement is NOT true according to passage？

A. Beihai offered tourism consumption coupons.

B. Weizhou Island is the youngest volcanic island in China.

C. Yang Xiaojun took self-driving tours in Hunan last year.

D. Jiangsu received over 41.3 million domestic tourists.

參考答案：1.A 2.D 3.C 4.A