Thomas Cook

Thomas Cook could be 0 SAID to have invented the global tourist industry. He was born in England in 1808 and became a cabinetmaker. Then he (1) _________ on the idea of using the newly-invented railways for pleasure trips and by the summer of 1845, he was organising commercial trips. The first was to Liverpool and featured a 60-page handbook for the journey, the (2) _________ of the modern holiday brochure.

The Paris Exhibition of 1855 (3) __________ him to create his first great tour, taking in France, Belgium and Germany. This also included a remarkable (4) _________ — Cook’s first cruise, an extraordinary journey along the Rhine. The expertise he had gained from this (5) _________ him in good stead when it came to organising a fantastic journey along the Nile in 1869. Few civilians had so much as set foot in Egypt, let (6) _________ travelled along this waterway through history and the remains of a vanished civilisation (7) _________ back thousands of years. Then, in 1872, Cook organised the first conducted world tour and the (8) _________ of travel has not been the same since.

A. dawned

B. struck