Directions:There are 20 blanks in the
following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C]
and [D] on the right side of the paper You should choose the ONE that best fits
into the passage.
International airlines have
rediscovered the business travelers, the man or woman who regularly jets from
country to country as part of the job. This does not (62)
mean that airlines ever abandoned their business travelers. (63)
, companies like Lufthansa and Swissair would rightly argue that they
have always (64) best for the executive-class passengers.
(65) many lines could be accused of concentrating too
heavily in the recent past (66) attracting passengers by
volume, often at the (67) of regular travelers. Too often,
they have seemed geared for quantity (68) than
quality. Operating a major airline in the 1980s is essentially
a(n) (69) of finding the right mix of passengers. The
airlines need to fill up the back end of their wide-bodied jets with passengers
paying a (70) fare, without forgetting that the front end
should be filled with people who pay (71) more for their
tickets. It is no (72) that the two major
airline bankruptcies in 1982 were among the companies (73)
in cheap flights. But low fares require consistently full aircraft to make
flights economically viable (可行的), and in the recent recession the (74)
of traffic has not grown. Equally the large number of airlines
jostling (争夺) for the (75) passengers has created a huge
excess of capacity. The net result of excess capacity and cutthroat
(76) driving down fares has been to push some airlines into
(77) and leave many others hovering on the (78)
. Against this grim background, (79)
is no surprise that airlines are (80)
increasingly to the business travelers to improve their rates of return. They
have (81) much time and effort to establish exactly what the
executive demands for sitting apart from the
tourists.
