Direction: Read the following text. Choose the best
word or phrase for each numbered blank. Text Nowadays almost every city has
an airport, 1 two, in the ease of some
big cities. Like a railway station, an airport is a very
2 place. At almost any hour of the day or night it is
thronged 3 people, many of them are
passengers who are 4 waiting for a
flight out or who have just 5 . Today, a
great number of people travel from one country to another by plane just
as 6 as other people
7 from one town to another within the same country by train
or bus. The big building in which passengers wait for their
plane is called the 8 . When a passenger
arrives 9 the terminal, he goes to the
airline 10 has arranged his trip. There
he 11 his ticket as
12 that he has a seat in the plane. He also 13 his heavy luggage to
14 and sent to the hold of the aircraft. The passenger is
allowed to carry only light articles with him. If his ticket is in order, and
his luggage is not 15 , he is given a
card called a 16 pass which allows his
admission 17 the plane. However, he can
not proceed to the aircraft 18 he 19 an announcement over the
loudspeakers that his plane is about to 20 . …