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Kentucky is famous mainly for fried chicken, bourbon and horse-racing. Few people think of it as a manufacturing powerhouse. But

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问题     Kentucky is famous mainly for fried chicken, bourbon and horse-racing. Few people think of it as a manufacturing powerhouse. But the bluegrass state is not only the third largest car manufacturer in America; thanks to its central location, it has become a huge logistics hub and now also ranks third among American states in air-cargo shipments.
    At the state’s Louisville airport, United Parcel Service’s 120-acre site resembles a giant Santa’s grotto, with parcels containing everything from food to medicines to cuddly toys racing around 155 miles of conveyor belts. When the facility was opened in 1982, it handled 2,000 packages every night; now it deals with that number every 17 seconds, mostly automatically.
    Seventy aeroplanes can be parked outside the hub’s five wings, and each can be loaded or unloaded in 20 minutes. Some 250 flights depart every day. The airport is no more than two hours’ flight from 75% of America’s population and four hours from 95% of it.
    But only one in ten of UPS’s packages go by air. The state is within 600 miles of 60% of the nation’s population, so most of them travel by road. Trucks fan out not just from UPS’s facility but also from that of a rival delivery group, DHL, farther north.     Being able to receive and send goods quickly makes all the difference to a business like Geek Squad, which has a site of 240,000 square feet just a few miles from Louisville, employing 1 ,350 staff. The company handles all the repairs for Best Buy, an electronics retailer. Customers hand in their phones and laptops at their local shop, from where they are trucked to the Louisville facility. The first delivery arrives at 5 am and the last truck leaves at 11 pm. Over half the products are sent back to the customers the next day.
    Nearby Cafe Press handles online orders for a wide range of customised goods, from T-shirts to mugs to wedding invitations. On Cyber Monday, just after Thanksgiving, it had 100,000 orders to fill. As well as UPS, Cafe Press uses Federal Express’s hub in Memphis, Tennessee, six hours’ drive away. Good internet connections and cheap power are vital for the company. It has a backup server on site and enjoys the sixth-lowest power costs in the country, according to the Kentucky Association for Economic Development.
Kentucky has the advantages EXCEPT______.
选项 A、production of vehicles
B、good-sized logistic center
C、aerial transportation of goods
D、fried chicken, horse race and tobacco
答案D
解析 根据Kentucky定位到第一段。选项[A]对应第三句：But the bluegrass state is notonly the third largest car manufacturer in America…该句的bluegrass state(牧草州，肯塔基州别名)指的就是Kentucky，其中the third-largest car manufacturer对应production of vehicles。故该项表述正确。选项[B]对应“it has become a huge logistics hub”一句，其中huge logistics hub=good—sized logistic center，故该项表述正确。选项[C]对应最后一句:．．．now also ranks thirdamong American states in air-cargo shipments．其中，air—cargo shipments对应aerial transportationof goods，故该项表述正确。选项[D]对应首句：Kentucky is famous mainly for fried chicken，bourbon and horse—racing．其中“bourbon波本威士忌”被替换成了“tobacco烟草”，该项属于偷换概念，故答案为选项[D]。
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