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Millions of Americans return from longdistance trips by air,but their luggage doesn't always come home with him.

Airline identification tags can come loosely,and the bags go who-knows-where.

Amazing,some people never pick out their luggage at airport baggage claim carousels (传送带) .And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and,for 90 days,attempt to find their owners. If they have no luck,they literally left holding the bags of thousands of travelers. They don't keep them,so they're not in the warehouse business. And for law,they cannot sell the bags,because the airlines might be tempting to deliberately misplace luggage.

So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents,and they no longer belong passengers,a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro,Alabama,buying them.

Millions Americans return from longdistance trips by air,but their luggage doesn't always come home with them.

Airline identification tags can come loose,and the bags go who-knows-where.

Amazingly,some people never pick up their luggage at airport baggage claim carousels (传送带) .And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.

The airlines collect the items and,for 90 days,attempt to find their owners. If they have no luck,they are literally left holding the bags of thousands of travelers. They don't keep them,as they're not in the warehouse business. And dy 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.

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April is National Poetry Month in the United States. The Academy of American Poets started the celebration in 1996. The goal was to help more Americans add poetry to their lives.

The academy chose April as National Poetry Month because of a line in a poem. 1       And many Americans think April is the crudest month because they must pay their income taxes by April 15th.

National Poetry Month brings together publishers,booksellers,poetry groups,libraries,schools and poets around the country. 2       In the southern state of Florida,the Miami Poetry Festival tries to bring a poem to everyone of the 2. 5 million people who live in the area. The group has dropped poems out of airplanes,sewn them into clothes,and put them on every bus in the city.

Poetry is very popular in the United States. America even has a chief poet,known as the Poet Laureate. Robert Pinsky was the Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2000. 3       He chose 200 poems by poets from the United States and from many other countries. The poems are included in a book called Americans' Favorite Poems.4       Robert Frost was perhaps the most popular and beloved one of American poets in the twentieth century. 5       He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times. He often wrote about the land and people of the northeastern American states. His poems combine images of nature with ideas about how to live one's life.

   A. It was edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.

   B. T. S. Eliot called April "the cruelest month" in his poem The Waste Land.

   C. Thousands of Americans wrote to Mr. Pinsky about their favorite poems.

   D. He started the Favorite Poem Project,to find out which poems Americans liked best.

   E. His work often spoke plainly about the difficult lives of black people living in big cities.

   F. So it is not surprising that six of his poems are included in the book Americans' Favorite Poems.

   G. They encourage people to write,read,and listen to poetry.

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There have been many great inventions,which1       ( change) the way we live. The first great invention was one 2        is still very important today―the wheel. This made it easier to carry heavy things3       (travel) long distances. For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that have made as much effect as the wheel. There was little unknown land4       (leave) in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. They began to work instead to make life better.

In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions 5       (make) . Among them were the camera,the electric light and the radio. These all became a big part of our life today. The first part of the 20th century 6        more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Sound movies in 1926. The computer in 1928,and jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new material was made. Nylon came 7        in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. The middle part of the 20th brought new ways to help people get 8        diseases. They worked very well. They made people healthier and let them live long lives. By the 1960s most people could expect to live to be at least 60.  By this time most people had a very good life. Of course new inventions continued 9       (make) . But man now had a wish to explore again. The world is known to man but the stars are not yet. Man began looking for ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took a step. Since then other countries,10       (include) China and Japan,have made their steps into space.

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6.         7.                 8.                  9.          10.       

Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They are not caused by events,bad luck,or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. 1       Stop jumping to conclusions. 2       First,they assume that they know what is going to happen,so they stop paying attention and act on their assumption instead. Human beings are lousy fortunetellers. 3       That makes the action wrong too. The second aspect of this habit is playing the mindreader and assuming you know why people do what they do or what they're thinking. Wrong again,big time. More relationships are destroyed by this particular kind of stupidity than by any other.

4       A huge proportion of those " oughts" and u shoulds" that you carry around are most likely needless. All they do for you is to make you feel nervous or guilty. What's the point? When you use these imaginary rules on yourself,you clog your mind with petty restrictions and childish orders. And when you try to impose them on others,you make yourself into a bully,a boring nag,or a selfrighteous bigot (顽固者) .

Don't hang on to the past. 5       The more you turn them over in your mind,the worse you'll feel and the bigger they'll look. Don't try to fight misery. Let go and move on. Do that and you've removed just about all its power to hurt you.

   A. Making conclusion demands us paying much careful consideration.

   B. Most of what they assume is wrong.

   C. Maybe the past means a lot to you.

   D. Here are 3  habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the problems.

   E. Don't invent rules.

   F. This habit increases people's difficulties in two ways.

   G. Most of the anger,frustration,misery,and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems.

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