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Flight attendants are stepping up pressure to close what some call a back door to airport terrorism: ground-crew security. Nearl
Flight attendants are stepping up pressure to close what some call a back door to airport terrorism: ground-crew security. Nearl
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2019-08-27
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Flight attendants are stepping up pressure to close what some call a back door to airport terrorism: ground-crew security. Nearly eight months after the terrorist hijackings, thousands of airport mechanics, caterers and ramp workers still have access to airplanes and runways without passing through metal detectors or undergoing regular searches.
Transportation Department spokesman Lenny Alcivar says ground-crew employees "must go through a thorough background and criminal records check as well as prescreening procedures." At most airports, however, those workers are not subject to regular searches or asked to pass through metal detectors as pilots and flight attendants are.
The access continues, despite provisions in the new Aviation and Transportation Security Act that require tighter measures. The Transportation Security Act, passed by Congress after the hijackings, requires workers with access to a "secured area of an airport" to be screened in a manner "that will assure at least the same level of protection as will result from screening of passengers and their baggage." Those screening measures should be taken "as soon as practicable." "Whether background checks and random searches fulfill the provisions of the law is an open question, " says David Schaffer, counsel to the House subcommittee on aviation. He says the law requires "some sort of screening, " but it does not require ground-crew employees "to go through metal detectors."
Deciding which steps to take will not be easy. Workers often leave and reenter secured areas. Making them pass through metal detectors or regularly searching them would be burdensome. Moreover, because the layout of each airport is different, developing uniform standards could prove difficult. Even so, reports from flight attendants around the nation indicate that few searches of ground crew are being conducted, and only a swipe card is needed to access secured areas at many airports. Results of tests from November through early February by the Transportation Department’s inspector general
underscore
the concerns. Memos obtained show that undercover agents secretly boarded aircraft or gained access to the runway in nearly half their tries. We are only creating the illusion of security where the traveling public can see. Meanwhile, the part that they cannot see, nothing is being done.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a barrier to take effective measures?
选项
A、Workers frequently go into and out of secured areas.
B、Different airports have different designs.
C、It is hard to uniform the standards.
D、The regular searching may cause psychological burdens to ground workers.
答案
B
解析
本题为细节理解题。根据最后一段第二句“Workers often leave and reenter secured areas.”可知,工作人员经常在安保区域进进出出,因此,A项符合原文意思。根据最后一段第三句“Making them pass through metal detectors or regularly searching them would be burdensome.”可知,定期搜查员工可能会让他们难以忍受。因此,D项符合原文意思。根据最后一段第四句“because the layout of each airport is different,developing uniform standards could prove difficult.”可知,由于每个机场的布局设计不同,所以制定统一的标准可能会被证明是比较困难的。由此可知,机场布局的不同是不太可能制定统一标准的原因,而并非采取有效措施的障碍。因此,B项正确。
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