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Growing cooperation among branches of tourism has proved valuable toall concerned. Government bureaus, trade and travel association carriers andproperties are all working together to bring about optimum conditions fortravelers.

41) __________.They distribute materials to agencies, such as journals,brochures and advertising projects.42) __________ .

Tourist counselors give valuable seminars to acquaint agents with newprograms and techniques in selling. 43) __________ .

Properties and agencies work closely together to make the most suitablecontracts, considering both the comfort of the clients and their own profitablefinancial arrangement. 44) __________ .

45) __________.Carriers are dependent upon agencies to supplypassengers, and agencies are dependent upon carriers to present them withmarketable tours. All services must work together for greater efficiency, fairpricing and contented customers.

A) The same confidence exists between agencies and carriers includingcar-rental and sight-seeing services.

B) They offer familiarization and workshop tours so that in a shorttime agents can obtain first-hand knowledge of the tours.

C) Travel operators, specialists in the field of planning, sponsorextensive research programs. They have knowledge of all areas and all carrierservices, and they are experts in organizing different types of tours and inpreparing effective advertising campaigns.

D) As a result of teamwork, tourism is flouring in all countries.

E) Agencies rely upon the good services of hotels, and , conversely,hotels rely upon

agencies, to fulfill their contracts and to send them clients.

F) In this way agents learn to explain destinations and to suggestdifferent modes and combinations of travel- Planes, ships, trains,motorcoaches, car-rentals, and even car purchases.

G) Consequently, the agencies started to pay more attention to thecomfort of travel.

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Fields across Europe are contaminated with dangerous levels of theantibiotics given to farm animals. The drugs, which are in manure sprayed ontofields as fertilizers, could be getting into our food and water, helping tocreate a new generation of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs “ .

The warning comes from a researcher in Switzerland who looked at levelsof the drugs in farm slurry.41) __________ .

Some 20,000 tons antibiotics are used in the European Union and the USeach year. More than half are given to farm-animals to prevent disease andpromote growth. 42) __________.

Most researchers assumed that humans become infected with the resistantstrains by eating contaminated meat. But far more of the drugs end up in manurethan in meat products, says Stephen Mueller of the Swiss Federal Institute forEnvironmental Science and Technology in Dubendorf. 43) __________ .

With millions of tons animals manure spread onto fields of cops such aswheat and barley each year, this pathway seems an equally likely route forspreading resistance, he said. The drugs contaminate the crops, which are theneaten. 44) __________ .

Mueller is particularly concerned about a group of antibiotics calledsulphonamides. 45) __________ .This concentration is high enough to trigger thedevelopment of resistance among bacteria. But vets are not treating the issueseriously.

There is growing concern at the extent to which drugs, includingantibiotics, are polluting the environment. Many drugs given to humans are alsoexcreted unchanged and broken down by conventional treatment.

A) They don’t easily degrade or dissolve in water. His analysis foundthat Swiss farm manure contains a high percentage of sulphonamides; eachhectare of field could be contaminated with up to 1 kilogram of the drugs.

B) And manure contains especially high levels of bugs that areresistant to antibiotics, he says.

C) Animal antibiotics is still an area to which insufficient attentionhas been paid.

D) But recent research has found a direct link between the increaseduse of these farmyard drugs and the appearance of antibiotic-resistant bugsthat infect people.

E) His findings are particularly shocking because Switzerland is one ofthe few countries to have banned antibiotics as growth promoters in animalfeed.

F) They could also be leaching into tap water pumped from rocks beneathfertilized fields.

G) There is no doubt that the food and drink is always important to thehealth.