Question

Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（標簽） 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（老練的）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（獲得物） 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.
【小題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 found office in many airports

【小題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

【小題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.

【小題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.

【小題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.

Answer 1

【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】C
【小題5】D

解析試題分析：本文主要就是告訴我們在美國的機場里丟失的行李的處理方法。
【小題1】B 細節題。根據第一段1,2行Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（標簽） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where說明很多行李的標簽都脫落了，導致這些行李無法辨認。故B正確。
【小題2】D 推理題。根據第二段最后一句And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.說明航空公司是無權出售這些行李來獲得利潤的，故D正確。
【小題3】A 細節題。根據第三段最后3行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.說明很多的游客可以從這里買到很多很有價值的東西，故A正確。
【小題4】C 推斷題。根據文章最后一段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.只有很少的乘客的東西會丟失，故C正確。
【小題5】D 主旨大意題。本文主要就是告訴我們在美國的機場里丟失的行李的處理方法，故D正確。
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