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专题检测卷(十五)
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(2013·钦州模拟)
For years and years people have been saying that railways are dead. “We can do without 1 , ”people say 2 motor-cars and planes have made the railways 3 . We all keep hearing that trains are slow, that they 4 money and that they are dying. But this is 5 . In these days of expensive oil, the railways have become 6 competitive with motor-cars and planes. If you want to 7 people or goods from place to place, they’re 8 planes. And they have much in common 9 planes. A plane goes in a 10 line, and so does a railway. What is more, it takes you from the 11 of a city into the heart of another. It doesn’t leave you as a plane does, miles and miles from the city center. It doesn’t 12 you up as a car does in endless traffic jams. And a single train can carry goods which a plane could 13 do.
Far from being dead, the railways are very much 14 . Modern railway lines give you a 15 , untroubled journey. Where else can you eat well, sleep in 16 ,
