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請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題         The Persian Gulf is not an obvious destination for the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet when Bahrain’sKing Hamad met with Pope Benedict in Rome in July 2008, he 16 a personal invitation to visit. If Benedictaccepts this offer, he’ll become the first 17 to set foot in Arabia.  18 would make that trip so dramatic is the region’s reputation for religious intolerance. Bahrain’s newhospitality shows that attitudes are changing. And the explanation lies in demographics. The kingdom and its neighborsare hosts to booming new Christian populations, thanks to the region’s 19 hunger for guest workers. Foreignlaborers now represent 35 percent of Bahrain’s inhabitants. The number is 60 percent in Kuwait and 80 percent in theUnited Arab Emirates, and almost half of the 35 million people on the Arabian Peninsula are now foreign-born. Alarge proportion of them hail from Christian areas such as the Philippines and southern India. As a result, 20 now constitute roughly 9 percent of Bahrain’s population. In Saudi Arabia, the Catholic Church estimates thereare 1.2 million Filipino faithfuls alone, making them the country’s third largest immigrant group.
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(A) detained
(B) extended
(C) pretended
(D) retained

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答案：B
難度：困難0.3
統計：A(3),B(3),C(1),D(1),E(0)

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