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{MP3:http://down.233.com/2012/listenfiles/xdftl/Test1.mp3}Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
注意:此部分试题在答题卡2上;请在答题卡2上作答。
Surging growth in international travel is driving revenue increases at the foreign units of U.S. online travel agencies and has spurred heated (36) ________________________for a bigger slice of the lucrative and (37) ________________________ market.
Companies like Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and Priceline.com Inc. have ramped up efforts to attract customers to their sites( 38 ) ________________________, and at least one U.S. travel site, Vayama, has ( 39 ) ________________________itself entirely to international bookings for travel to and from the United States.
Growth in bookings made outside the United States far outpaces the growth in U.S. (40) ________________________bookings.
That is partly because more people are traveling and partly because travelers are increasingly comfortable trusting their(41) ________________________to websites, said Orbitz Chief Executive Steve Barnhart.
"It's a competitive market place in the United states, and it's going to be a very competitive marketplace (42) ________________________,
" Barnhart said in an interview on Monday.
Earlier this week Orbitz said it has relaunched ebookers, its online travel company in Europe, with more ( 43 ) ________________________and user reviews with the goal of attracting more European bookings.
(44) ________________________up from $24.5 billion in 2004, according to travel research company PhoCusWright.
(45) ________________________The number of international passengers on U.S. airlines rose 3.8% in the first five months of 2007 from the comparable period a year earlier.
Vayama CEO Andre Hesselink said (46)________________________
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