四六级

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　　An odd scene out of Japan's past is rising right bythe trendy neighborhood, facing Tokyo Bay. It is avast spa 1 complex, and inside are meticulousreproductions of the streets, eateries and shops ofthe Edo period ( 1603—1864 ) 2 , the final years before the pressures of the outside worldbegan forcing change on Japan. Called the Great Edo Hot Spring Story, it is the longtime dreamof its chairman, Isao Nakamura, who bemoans3 the postwar Americanization of Japaneseculture and its impact on Tokyo."We used to tell foreign visitors that they had to go to Kyototo taste and enjoy the good old Japan, "says Nakamura. "Now they can come here. "

　　The promise of a hot dip in Japan 's golden age is an idea whose time has come. There 's even aterm, iyashi-sangyo, or"healing business", that refers to services designed to ease the anxietyof Japan 's seemingly endless recession. They include aromatherapy, massage and work trips infarm country, but none rivals the popularity of hot springs, long venerated for their reputedhealing powers. A volcanic archipelago4 , Japan has 30 , 000 natural hot springs and 3 , 000hot-spring resorts, most located in small country inns.

　　What Nakamura is building has no precedent for scale or extravagance: a vast bathhouseand theme park with a rural feeling in downtown Tokyo. Yet already, there are two other hot-spring spa complexes in the works, one almost three times more costly than Nakamura 46million project. Tadanori Matsuda, a professor who studies hot-spring culture at an university,says that the sudden appearance of these huge facilities in the urban nerve center of Japansuggests that angst5 over the economy" has hit the critical point", and spa builders arecapitalizing on it.

　　The new Tokyo spas could not be more different from the city's traditional bathhouses. At abathhouse, visitors pay about 4 to scrub in regular water, and have to be out by closing time ataround mid-night. All the new Tokyo spas will tap real hot mineral springs at depths of up to 1, 700 meters. They offer more -luxurious services, longer hours of day rates starting at 20. Ifthere is a risk in this building boom, it is that Japan already looks saturated with soakingopportunities: the existing spas attract 300 million day-visits each year.

　　Yet the worse the economy gets, the more popular a nice soak becomes. Already dozens ofbooks and TV programs offer to steer travelers through the hot-spring circuit. In a 2001survey by the nation's largest travel agency, hot springs ranked as the favorite destination ofJapanese tourists, and the second favorite ( behind theme parks) among those in their 20s and30 s. In the agency, a staff of 32 years old says her peers seeing their fathers losing jobs fearfor their own careers and marriage prospects, and can find" no certainty in the future ". Withall that hanging over one's head, 20 is a cheap price for relaxation.It's worth remembering,though , that Edo society grew stagnant and ended in turmoil.

　　Enjoy the waters, while you can.

　　Ⅰ. True or False:

　　1. Great Edo Hot Spring is the reproduction of Edo period.

　　2. Isao Nakamura constructed the Great Edo Hot Spring because he bemoaned the America'sinfluence on Tokyo.

　　3. Hot spring is the best way to ease anxiety.

　　4. Great Edo Hot Spring will be the largest hot-spring complex.

　　Ⅱ. Questions:

　　Are new spas totally the same with the traditional ones? In what way are they different fromthe traditional ones?

　　参考答案：

　　Ⅰ. 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F

　　Ⅱ. Not totally, they offer more luxurious services, longer hours.

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