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Tourism contributes about 2.0 percent to Sri Lanka's gross domestic product. More than 100 hotels were badly damaged or destroyed by the Dec. 26 tsunami, which left nearly 300,000 dead or missing in 13 countries, nearly 40,000 of them in Sri Lanka. "The progress made after five weeks as far as reconstruction is concerned is impressive," Francesco Frangialli, secretary general of the U.N.'s World Tourism Organization, told reporters in Colombo. "We feel the recovery here will be faster than other Asian nations hit by the tsunami," Frangialli said. Frangialli is visiting the country after attending a two-day meeting in Bangkok where tourism officials proposed a global campaign for coming months to persuade tourists to return to tsunami-stricken Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives.
Sri Lanka's tourism industry, revitalized by a three-year cease-fire between the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, was badly hit by the tsunami. The World Bank said on Wednesday the tsunami caused extensive damage to the sector amounting to about $ 200 million in damages to facilities, with estimated number of tourists in 2005 now revised downwards by l00,000 people. A record 565,000 tourists visited Sri Lanka in 2004, tourist board figures show. The total was expected to top 600,000 this year. "The best thing we can do now for Sri Lanka tourism is to encourage the early return of tourists," Frangialli said.
The Indian Ocean island's white sand beaches are a magnet for European tourists, and steady arrival growth helped spur the island's stock market to all time highs towards the end of 2004.
According to the passage, Sri Lanka's tourism industry will recover faster than that of other tsunami-hit countries in Asia is mainly because _______.
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Norris has decided to _________ for some evening classes next term now that he has settled
听力原文：W: Can I help you, sir？
M: Um, yes. I bought this radio cassette player here a couple of weeks ago. Here's the receipt.
W: Ah ha. That's fine. What seems to be the problem？
M: Well, it's been nothing but trouble since I bought it.
W: OK. Just let me take a note of this. Er, radio cassette player.
M: The first thing is one of the speakers doesn't work properly. The sound is completely distorted with the radio or a tape.
W: Which one is it？
M: The right-hand one. Another problem is the left cassette player. It chews up tapes. It's completely ruined two of my favorite cassettes.
W: Oh, dear. The speaker and the cassette player.
M: One of the cassettes was brand new. Oh, and the rewind switch doesn't work. Actually it never did.
W: OK. So there is the right-hand speaker ... the cassette player and ... urn, the rewind switch. Is that it'？
M: No, I'm afraid not. The aerial doesn't work properly. It's stuck.
W: Hmm, 1 see what you mean. The handle is broken too.
M: Yes, I'd forgotten about that. It's not very good, is it？
W: Er, no. But it's under guarantee and we can repair it. Just give me your name and phone number. We'll give you a ring when it's ready.
Where are the two people, most probably？
The fact that blind people can "see" things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us to understand our feelings about color. If they can sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected by color unconsciously.
Manufacturers have discovered by trial and error that sugar sells badly in green wrappings, that blue foods are considered unpleasant, and the cosmetics should never be packaged in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole discipline of color psychology that now finds application in everything from fashion to interior decoration. Some of our preferences are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore associated with passivity and calm, while yellow is a day color with associations of energy and incentive. For primitive man, activity during the day meant hunting and attacking, while he soon saw as red, the color of blood and rage and the heat that came with effort. And green is associated with passive defence and self-preservation. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because of their physiological associations, also have a direct psychological effect. People exposed to bright red show an increase in heartbeat, and blood pressure; red is exciting. Similar exposure to pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color. Because of its exciting connotations, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but closer analysis shows that a vivid yellow can produce a more basic state of alertness and alarm, so fire engines and ambulances in some advanced communities are now rushing around in bright yellow colors.
Manufacturers found out that color affects sales______.
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