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II.Cloze (2 points each; 38 points in total): Choose the most appropriate answer.Passage One: Questions 13-22Long lines at airport security checkpoints make air travel an ordeal. But not everyone has towait in the 13 queues. Those who buy first-class or business-class tickets can use 14_lanes that take them to the front of the line for screening. British Airways calls it Fast Track, a service that also lets 15 passengers jump the queue at passport and immigration control.Critics complain that a fast track through airport security should not be for sale. Securitychecks，they argue, are a matter of national defense, not an 16 like extra legroom or earlyboarding privileges; the burden of keeping terrorists off airplanes should be shared equally by allpassengers. The airlines reply that everyone is 17 to the same level of screening; only thewait 18 by price. As long as everyone receives the same body scan，they maintain，a shorterwait in the security line is a convenience they should be free to sell.Amusement parks have also started selling the right to jump the queue. 19_，visitorsmay spend hours waiting in line for the most popular rides and attractions. Now, Universal Studios Hollywood and other theme parks offer a way to avoid the wait: for about twice the price of standard admission, they’ll sell you a pass that lets you go to the head of the line. Expedited accessto the Revenge of the Mummy thrill ride may be 20 less freighted than privileged access toan airport security check. Still，some observers lament the practice, seeing it as 21 of awholesome civic habit: “Gone are the days when the theme-park queue was the great equalizer，” one commentator wrote, “where every vacationing family waited its turn in 22 fashion.”
13.
(A) separate
(B) optional
(C) serpentine
(D) progressive

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.571429
統計：A(2),B(0),C(0),D(4),E(0)

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