Comprehensive reading

Read a magazine report about a new Hyatt hotel in Spain. Put the paragraphs into the correct order (1 – 6).

The Hyatt Hotel

A ……… Hyatt’s latest venture is the Hyatt La Manga Club, a 1400-acre resort on the southern coast of Spain. Hyatt has totally redeveloped this resort, with three 18-hole championship golf courses, seventeen tennis courts and a variety of wintersports.

B ……… The majority of those playing golf on business, however, stressed that making contacts and winning new business was an integral part of their rationale for spending so much time on the fairways and putting greens.

C ……… Golf, hotels, and business travelers have long been a well-established combination, so it was no surprise that Hyatt came up with the idea of carrying out a survey of the business golfer’s attitude to the game.

D ……… A central part of the resort is the recently opened Hotel Principe Felipe, a 192-room hotel designed in the Andalusian style of the region and overlooking the golf courses. Hyatt hopes the new complex will meet the needs of a wide range of business travelers and other golfing enthusiasts.

E ……… In addition to the most recent survey, other research carried out by Hyatt had shown that a quarter of the 30 million golfers in the US were top management executives. It therefore developed a strategy of developing hotel resort complexes, complete with golf courses and other health facilities.

F ………Hyatt interviewed over 400 golfing executives and found that the way they played was very similar to their behaviour in the boardroom: more than a third, for example, admitted cheating on the golf course as well as cheating at work. Highly-motivated achievers also preferred playing long, hilly courses to anything that was too easy for their skills.

Say if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

7 Most of the executives that Hyatt interviewed said they cheated at golf.

8 Highly motivated executives did not like short, simple golf courses.

9 Most of the people they interviewed said they played golf to make contacts.

10 An early Hyatt survey in the US showed that there were about 7.5 million top management executives who played golf.

11 Hyatt decided to develop the La Magna resort after interviewing 400 golfing executives.

12 The style of the hotel reflects the architecture in the local area.

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Complete the guide book extract with words from the box.

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The Southern Traverse is in mid-November. It is an adventure race for 13) ……… of three to five people through some of the most difficult terrain in the South Island, finishing in Nelson. Apart from cycling, 14) ……… have to use 15) ……… and rafts to cross lakes and rivers.

Yachting has been a popular pastime in Auckland since the 1870s, when the first 16) ……… regattas were held on Waitemata Harbour. The biggest event is the Auckland Anniversary Regatta, in late January. Up to 600 17) ……… take part in one of the world’s largest one-day regattas.

World Heli-Callenge takes place in late July at Wanaka, on the South Island. It is just one of the many adventure sports 18) ……… in New Zealand. International skiers and 19) ……… take part in three days of skiing events.

The International Dragon Boat Championships in February celebrate the Chinese Hew Year. Competing 20) ……… come from all over the world to 21) ……… on Wellington’s Lambton Harbour.