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.

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

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

3.The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.

A．visitors may purchase something undervalued.

B．a(chǎn)ll thethings there are very cheap.

C．there's a large variety of goods.

D．visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.

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.

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

【答案】

1.B

2.D

3.A

4.C

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹的是在美國的機場是如何處理無人認領(lǐng)的行李的。首先要盡量尋找失主，機場不能把行李賣了，如果是無人認領(lǐng)的行李可以讓無人認領(lǐng)行李中心去買。

1.細節(jié)題：從第一段的句子：Airline identification tags（標簽） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where.可知是因為行李很難辨認，選B

2.細節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.可知他們不能把行李賣了，因為他們有可能故意在行李上盈利。選

D

3.推理題：從第三段的句子：More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.可知這個中心買的東西都是超值的。選A

4.推理題：從最后一段的句子：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數(shù)量是很少的，選C

5.主旨題：從全篇的內(nèi)容可以概括：文章介紹的是在美國的機場是如何處理無人認領(lǐng)的行李的。選D

考點：考查社會現(xiàn)象類短文

點評：文章介紹的是在美國的機場是如何處理無人認領(lǐng)的行李的。首先要盡量尋找失主，機場不能把行李賣了，如果是無人認領(lǐng)的行李可以讓無人認領(lǐng)行李中心去買。這類文章結(jié)構(gòu)清晰易懂，集中考查了推理題和細節(jié)題，要求考生有較強的細節(jié)理解能力。做題時也可以結(jié)合自己的生活常識和經(jīng)驗，再通過邏輯推理和判斷。主旨題關(guān)鍵是弄清每段的大意，再結(jié)合重點的句子判斷。