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第一篇：A century after the first commercial flight took off, around $746 billion is expected to be spent this year onglobal air travel, a record 3.3 billion passenger journeys will be taken and 1,400 new aircraft help will whiskthem across the skies.But among these impressive figures there is a much smaller one that airlines are really taking note of: $5.42.That’s the average profit made by airlines for each passenger they carry. “With a net profit margin of just 2.4%,airlines only retain $5.42 per passenger carried,” said Tony Tyler CEO of International Air Transport Association(IATA) at the group’s 70th AGM in Doha, Qatar. “There is a mismatch between the value that the industrycontributes to economies and the rewards that it generates.”For others at the sharp end of the industry, the quest for profits is an ongoing battle. “We’re the wrong partof the food chain,” says JetBlue Airways CEO David Barger. “Airports and financiers, you look at the profitmargins of them compared to airlines. But we recognize we’re the wrong part and you have to be innovative.”Pearce suggests that if fuel prices -- one of the biggest costs to airlines -- were to fall, then because of the keenlycompetitive nature of the industry it would be the customer that would be the beneficiary. Even with high fuelprices IATA forecasts that on average fares this year will fall by around 3.5%. The profits the industry has madeare mainly because of cost-cutting in the industry through improved efficiency and consolidation, plus the waythat airlines package their products, most notably through giving passengers more choice in what kind of optionsthey want with a flight. That also gives airlines other ways to make a few dollars with ancillaries like baggagecharges or seat preferences. Yet the lament from IATA remains that airlines and those in the commercial aviationindustry are still hampered by high taxation and low profitability.
1. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) How airlines have developed in the past century.
(B) What the airline industry has contributed to economies.
(C) When airlines should purchase more new aircrafts.
(D) Why the airline industry has a low net profit margin.

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答案：D
難度：適中0.534162
統計：A(62),B(126),C(37),D(258),E(0)

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