THE HISTORY OF CRUISING

the History of Cruising

 

For questions 1- 8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

 

To understand how cruising developed into a (1) ... industry, you have to take a brief look at the past. Today's cruise industry (2) ... has its roots dated to the early 1840s. Among the earliest cruise passengers was author Charles Dickens, who booked passage in 1842, along with 86 fellow (3) ... , on a mail ship called Britannia (operated by Canadian Samuel Cunard, (4) ... of the Cunard Line). Writing in American Notes about his journey from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boston, Dickens describes the cramped quarters, coffinlike cabins, and passengers, (5) ... himself, getting (6) ... (although he claims that he just felt woozy). Conditions had somewhat improved by the time Mark Twain took a transatlantic voyage on the steamship Quaker City in 1867. Twain described his cabin as having "room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat in, at least with entire (7) ... to the cat. " Well, at least he didn't get sick. In The Innocents Abroad, Twain wrote, "If there is one thing in the world that will make a man (8) ... and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave himself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

 

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[answer="SUCCESSFUL" label="SUCCESS"]

[answer="ACTUALLY" label="ACTUAL"]

[answer="TRAVELLERS" label="TRAVEL"]

[answer="FOUNDER" label="FOUND"]

[answer="INCLUDING" label="INCLUDE"]

[answer="SEASICK" label="SEA"]

[answer="SECURITY" label="SECURE"]

[answer="PECULIARLY" label="PECULIAR"]

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