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

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.
According to Paragraphs 3 & 4, which one is true?
选项 A、The flights of UPS can cover three quarters of America in two hours.
B、About ten percent of America’s packages use aeroplanes as transport.
C、DHL is another express company in America, one of UPS’s competitors.
D、Most of the packages travel by road because the company has few planes.
答案C
解析 选项[A]对应第三段最后一句：The airport is no more than two hours’flight from75％of America’s population and four hours from 95％of it．原文说的是“UPS机场距离75％的美国人口飞行时间只需两小时”，而该项却说“UPS飞机能够在两小时内飞到美国四分之三的地方”，显然这里有一个偷换概念的错误。选项[B]对应第四段首句：But only one in ten ofUPS’s packages go by air．原文的“UPS’s packages”被替换成了“America’s packages”，故也是偷换概念，该项错误。选项[C]对应第四段最后一句：Trucks fan out not just from UPS’s facility butalso from that of a rival delivery group，DHL，farther north．其中，delivery group=express compa—ny；rival=competitor。故该项正确。选项[D]对应第四段第二句：The state is within 600 miles of60％of the nation’s population，so most of them travel by road．由此可见快递走公路的原因是因为距离近，而不是其他因素，故该项错误。综上所述，答案为选项[C]。
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