单选题
Can you imagine how you would feel if you fell dangerously ill and could not reach or call a doctor? Millions of people
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the world are in this unfortunate
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, living in distant places where there are no railways, no proper roads and no telephones. Thousands of lives are lost every year which could have been saved if medical attention
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in time.
But today help could be brought quickly and easily to many of these people if only full advantage was taken of the aeroplane.
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country has proved this better than Australia. The Australians
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greater use of the aeroplane than any
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people in the world. In no other country
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the total number of miles flown by the average person so high. In fact, it has been
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that Australians jump into plane
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people in other countries jump into trains and buses. It is not surprising, therefore, that Australia should have been the first country
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a Flying Doctor Service.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查固定搭配。all over the world为固定搭配，意为“全世界，世界各地”。本句的意思是“目前世界上有数百万人处于这种不幸的状态”。故选C。