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Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags(标签) can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.
The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.
So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.
Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran(老练的)shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.
The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.
The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions(获得物) have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh's tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.
Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.
【小题1】Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.

A.they are forgetful
B.the owners of some luggage can’t be identified
C.they are in a hurry
D.there is no lost and foundoffice in many airports
【小题2】The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______.
A.they have to find the owners
B.they have to keep the bags as long as possible
C.some bags are expensive
D.they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose
【小题3】The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.
A.visitors may purchase something undervalued.
B.all thethings there are very cheap.
C.there's a large variety of goods.
D.visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.
【小题4】What can we infer from the passage?
A.A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage.
B.The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use.
C.The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small.
D.People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store.
【小题5】What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To introduce an attractive place to tourists.
B.To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage.
C.To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.
D.To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America.


【小题1】B
【小题2】D
【小题3】A
【小题4】C
【小题5】D

解析试题分析:文章介绍的是在美国的机场是如何处理无人认领的行李的。首先要尽量寻找失主,机场不能把行李卖了,如果是无人认领的行李可以让无人认领行李中心去买。
【小题1】细节题:从第一段的句子:Airline identification tags(标签) can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where.可知是因为行李很难辨认,选B
【小题2】细节题:从第二段的句子:And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.可知他们不能把行李卖了,因为他们有可能故意在行李上盈利。选
D
【小题3】推理题:从第三段的句子:More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.可知这个中心买的东西都是超值的。选A
【小题4】推理题:从最后一段的句子:Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.可知永久失去行李的乘客数量是很少的,选C
【小题5】主旨题:从全篇的内容可以概括:文章介绍的是在美国的机场是如何处理无人认领的行李的。选D
考点:考查社会现象类短文
点评:文章介绍的是在美国的机场是如何处理无人认领的行李的。首先要尽量寻找失主,机场不能把行李卖了,如果是无人认领的行李可以让无人认领行李中心去买。这类文章结构清晰易懂,集中考查了推理题和细节题,要求考生有较强的细节理解能力。做题时也可以结合自己的生活常识和经验,再通过逻辑推理和判断。主旨题关键是弄清每段的大意,再结合重点的句子判断。

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