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Karim Nasser Miran lives on a bench in the Charles de Gaulle Airport on the outskirts of Paris. He has been living there for 11

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问题     Karim Nasser Miran lives on a bench in the Charles de Gaulle Airport on the outskirts of Paris. He has been living there for 11 years. Amazingly, this little seat by a basement shopping mall, between a pizzeria and a fast-food stand has been the only place he has been allowed to stay for all that time.
    His possessions are crammed into an airport trolleys, which is always beside him. He has a sports bag which holds his few clothes, a shopping bag with his washing soap and other bathroom goods, and books and his diaries which he keeps in cardboard boxes.
    For years, the 54-year-old Miran has been trying to leave Charles de Gaulle Airport but authorities will not let him out of the air port. This strange set of circumstances has continued for 11 years.
    Miran was born in Iran, but is stateless] because he has no documents to prove his citizenry. They have been lost. For this reason he cannot get a passport. Miran says that his mother is Danish or Scottish. His father died when Miran was just over 20 years old, so he left I ran for Britain searching for his mother. He could not find her, and returned to Iran. He lost his citizenship and tried to return to Britain. When the British asked him about relatives who could guarantee him a job, he could not tell the immigration officials their names as he was still searching for,.them.
    He tried to enter Germany, Russia and Holland without success. He managed to get into Belgium where he was’given refugee status. Five years later he left for France, but he says the document which gave him refugee status, and the right to travel, was stolen from him. He could not leave the Charles de Gaulle Airport. This;vas in 1988. Eleven years later he was still searching for them.
    To start with, friendly airport workers gave him free meals, and let him use the shower and toilets there. They even gave him access to a phone, and called the airport doctor when Miran did not feel well.
    Miran became such a permanent fixture of Terminal One that all the workers started to call him Monsieur Alfred. Each day they greeted him, each day Miran wrote in his diary in order to keep trace of his own world, and each day he failed to release himself from his giant, glass-and-concrete prison.
    But in 1999, Miran became confident that he might be able to leave the airport terminal and start a new life. Officials told him they finally located a key document, issued in 1981 but lost in 1988, which could be his ticket to freedom.
    Even after eleven years in the airport terminal, Miran said he had not lost hope. He did a correspondence course to help to educate himself. Every day the airport post office carefully set aside all the mail addressed to him with his written lessons to be done. Every day he set, all alarm clock to ring at 7 a.m. and after his tea and food he would begin studying. The ambition he built up was to return to Brussels to do a degree.
选项 A、in the outlying district of Paris
B、in the center of Paris
C、far from Paris
D、near Paris
答案A
解析 本题考查确定词义的能力。文章第一句就交代了Charles de Gaulle Airport is on the outskirts of Paris关键是弄清outskirts一词的意思。即使不知道该词的意思，根据常识，我们可知道机场不会建在市中心，也不会建在远离这个城市的地方；urban area指城区，而outlying district是指a place which have a distance form the center or main area也就是郊区。故答案选项最符合题意。
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