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  3. Smugglers try to bring illegal items into the United States every day. People who travel to foreign countries sometimes try to a

Smugglers try to bring illegal items into the United States every day. People who travel to foreign countries sometimes try to a

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问题     Smugglers try to bring illegal items into the United States every day. People who travel to foreign countries sometimes try to avoid paying duty taxes on items they (47)______ on vacation. Some people try to enter our country (48)______. Who prevents these things from happening? This is the job of U.S. Customs Inspectors
    Customs officials work at (49)______ points to America. This includes airports, seaports, and our borders with Mexico and Canada. They work to prevent people from illegally entering America from, (50)______ countries and inspect items brought into the United States. They also work to prevent illegal drugs and (51)______ from coming to America. Inspectors must be very (52)______. Many tricks are used to smuggle both people and items into our country.
    American citizens who travel to other Countries also (53)______ customs officials. When people travel, they may purchase items to bring home. This merchandise must be (54)______. Customs officials inspect items and receipts to assess a duty tax. A person may bring eight hundred dollar worth of merchandise into America without paying a duty tax. Some people try to hide expensive items to avoid paying this tax. Sometimes people try to bring banned items to the U.S. Our laws (55)______ certain types of plants, foods, animals, and products from coming into our country.  These laws are for our (56)______. Plants and foods may carry harmful insects or diseases. Customs officials check carefully to make sure proper taxes are paid and banned items do not come into our country.

                 Word Bank:
A. encounter                   I. entry
B. protection                  J. terrorists
C. dangerous                   K. honest
D. observant                   L. foreign
E. illegally                   M. prohibit
F. environment                 N. freely
G. purchase                    O. declared
H. protected

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答案I
解析 从句法结构看，该题所填入的词用来修饰points这一单词，选项中符合这一要求的单词有protection，dangerous，observant，environment，protected，entry，terrorists，honest，foreign和declared。从句意看，该题所在句表达了海关官员工作的地点，从语境看，下文提到了到机场、港口和国境边界这些工作地点，并且提到海关官员的工作之一是防止外来人员非法进入美国，由此可断定海关官员的工作地点一般是在这些地方的入口处，因此entry一词是符合这一语境的最佳答案。
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