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So now I’ve visited four of the “25 Wonders of the World”, as decreed by Rough Guides. And I think this will be the last.

While in my heart I can see myself wondering enchanted through China’s Forbidden City, in my head I know I would be

standing grumpily at the back of a group listening to some Imperial Palace Tour Guide. At the Grand Canyon I would be

getting angr with tourists watching it through cameras –

eyes are not good enough

, since they lack a recording facility.

As we become richer and consumer goods are more widely affordable, and satisfy us only briefly before becoming

obsolete, we turn to travel to provide us with ‘experiences’. These will endure, set us apart from stay-at-home people and

maybe, fill our lives with happiness and meaning, Books with helpful titles like 1,000 Places to See Before You Die are

bestsellers. I’d bet many backpacks on the Machu Picchu Inca Trail are filled with copies, with little tieks penciled in the

margins after each must-see sight has been visited. Travel is now the biggest industry on the planet, bigger than

armaments or pharmaceuticals. And yet viewing the main sight of any destination is rarely the highlight of a trip. Mostly

it sits there on your itinerary like a duty visit to a dull relative. The guilt of not visiting the Sistine Chapel, because we

preferred to stay in a bar drinking limoncello, almost spoilt a weekend in Rome.

In Queensland,

the Great Barrier Reef reproached us

. How could we travel 15,000 miles without seeing it? How would

we explain back home that we were too lazy, and preferred to stay playing a ball game in our hotel pool? In the end, we

went to the reef and it was fine. But it won’t rank highly in the things I’ll never forget about Australia. Like the fact that

the banknotes are made of waterproof plastic: how gloriously Australian is that? Even after a day’s surfing, the $50 note

you left in your surfing shorts is still OK to buy you beer! And the news item that during a recent tsunami warning, the

surfers at Bondi Beach refused to leave the sea: what, and miss the ride of their lives? Or the stern warning at the hand

luggage X-ray machine at Alice Springs airport: “No jokes must be made whilst being processed by this facility’ – to

forestall, no doubt, disrespectful Aussie comments: ‘You won’t find the bomb, mate. It’s in my suitcase.’

The more I travel, the clearer it seems that the truth of a place is in the tiny details of everyday life, not in its most

glorious statues or scenery. Put down your camera, throw away your list, the real wonders of the world number

indefinitely more than 25.

123. What does the author mean by ‘

the prescribed tourist

manner’ in paragraph 2?