【新闻填空】A mammoth airport in Saudi Arabia（答案在原文给出）

I have been reading news daily for 15 minutes recently. 

It is really helpful as I can learn some new words/idioms/expressions and of course， I can

learn news！

Let's play a game now， without googling news， filling out the 5 blanks based on your knowledge/common sense etc：

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When it comes to airport expansion projects, the Gulf States are abuzz and the competition is fierce.

A mammoth airport in Saudi Arabia has already set records for size, but new plans in Dubai are ratcheting ( 1.  up )the race to be the world’s busiest airport by passenger volume.

Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International Airport currently wears the (2. crown   ) as the largest airport in the world by area. At a whopping 780 square kilometers (about 300 square miles), that’s bigger than neighboring country Bahrain.

The Saudis aren’t resting on their ( 3.laurels    ) either. The country is working on a new six-( 4. runway   ) airport on the King Fahd International site by 2030, with (5.   capacity   )   eventually for 185 million passengers per year.

For comparison, that’s 75 million more than the 110 million passengers the world’s current busiest airport by passenger volume, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, is expected to serve this year.

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• here you go -7grizzly- ♂ (269 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 08:42:46

• 好棒！能把答案写在内容里面，不写在表面吗？：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 08:47:02

• 点赞蹭答案。谢谢7G兄！ -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 08:47:13

• Thanks. Did my best :-))) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 08:54:11

• 非常厉害了。要我估计一个都答不对：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 08:57:08

• 接着答啊：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 08:57:46

• 不是已经蹭了7G的吗？；）sorry but can’t unmark. -最西边的岛上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 09:08:25

• the fourth one could be -7grizzly- ♂ (21 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 09:14:20

• 方向对了 -妖妖灵- ♀ (24 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 09:34:44

• 交作业！谢谢妖mm! -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (94 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 11:46:12

• 非常棒！语感非常好！你们都知道第一个idiom啊！ -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 12:38:54

• 新闻里很常见的：） -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 13:21:28

• 一个都做不到。跟着学。 -天边一片白云- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 14:30:09

• 不google新闻，但可以google 别的，比如idiom：）我是觉得很难，就是利用这个方式学一下地道表达：） -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/02/2024 postreply 15:23:45

• ======答案在原文给出，谢谢大家参与！====== -妖妖灵- ♀ (0 bytes) () 05/03/2024 postreply 10:02:10