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【题目】阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
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, the y 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.
(1)Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.
A.they are forg etful
B.they are in a hurry
C.there is no lost and found office in many airports
D.the owners of some luggage can’t be identified
(2)The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______.
A.they have to find the owners
B.they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose
C.some bags are expensive
D.they have to keep the bags as long as possible
(3)The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.
A.there's a large variety of goods.
B.all the things there are very cheap.
C.visitors may purchase something undervalued.
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 percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small.
C.The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use.
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 how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America.
B.To introduce an attractive place to tourists.
C.To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage.
D.To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.

【答案】
(1)D
(2)B
(3)C
(4)B
(5)A
【解析】(1)细节理解题。根据Airline identification tags(标签) can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where.由于包上的标签掉了所以无法识别行李的主人,故选D。(2)细节理解题。根据by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.他们有可能故意从行李上获利,故选B。(3)细节理解题。根据More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures. veteran(老练的)shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks…人们可以买到一些便宜的东西,故选C. (4)推理判断题。根据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.乘客永远的丢掉东西的人数是少的,故选B。(5)写作意图题。纵观全文可知主要介绍在机场无人认领的行李在美国是如何处理的。

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The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and pushed the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. “How embarrassing!I am getting so clumsy in my old age.”
Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments. It came around to Frank who sat quietly listening to the others.
Frank began,“My Dad was a fisherman. He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his Mom and Dad and the other kids that were still at home.”
Frank's voice dropped a bit.“When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me good-bye!”
He paused and then went on,“I remember the day I thought I was too old for a good-bye kiss. When we got to the school, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, ‘No, Dad.’ It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this surprised look on his face. I said, ‘Dad, I'm too old for a good-bye kiss. I'm too old for any kind of kiss.’ My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear. I had never seen him cry. He turned. ‘You're right,’ he said. ‘You are a big boy ... a man. I won't kiss you anymore.’”
For the moment, the tears began to well up in Frank's eyes. “It wasn't long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back.”
I looked at Frank and saw that tears were running down his cheeks. Frank spoke again.“Guys, you don't know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek.”
(1)Why Frank felt embarrassed when his father kissed him good-bye at that time?
A.Because he didn't want his father to drive him to school.
B.Because his classmates would laugh at him.
C.Because everybody was standing around and watching him.
D.Because he thought he was too old for a good-bye kiss.
(2)When Frank refused his father's kiss that day, his father__________.
A.felt surprised and didn't know what to do
B.felt a little angry but agreed not to kiss him anymore
C.felt very sad but agreed not to kiss him anymore
D.felt very relieved because his son grew up
(3).According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT correct?
A.Frank's father was hardworking and very responsible.
B.Frank's father drove him to school everyday when he was 12.
C.Frank regretted refusing his father's kiss very much.
D.Frank didn't think the good-bye kiss an embarrassment anymore.
(4).Frank told us this when everyone told a story about the embarrassing moment maybe because the following reasons EXCEPT__________.
A.he regretted to have refused his father's kiss
B.he wanted to remind us to cherish the time with family
C.he still thought this was the most embarrassing thing
D.he understood his father's love and missed him
(5).Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Father's Love
B.A Goodbye Kiss
C.An Embarrassing Experience
D.Frank's Story

【题目】By the mid-nineteenth century, the term “icebox” had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, pubs, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butler. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars(货车), it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor(前身)of the modem refrigerator, had been invented.

Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was undeveloped. The common belief that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation(绝缘) and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.

But as early as 1803, an intelligent Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting butter of his competitors to pay an extra price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that fanners would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

1When did the word “icebox” possibly become part of the American language?

A. In 1803. B. During the Civil War.

C. Sometime before 1850. D. Near the end of the 19th century.

2In the early 19th century, what made it difficult to develop an efficient icebox?

A. A lack of networks for the transportation of ice.

B. Lacking the knowledge of the physics of heat.

C. Not knowing how to prevent ice from melting quickly.

D. Competition among the owners of refrigerated freight cars.

3What does the underlined sentence in paragraph3 most probably mean?

A. Moore's farm was not far away from Washington.

B. Moore's farm was on the right of the road.

C. Moore was suitable for the job.

D. Moore's design was fairly successful.

4What's the passage mainly about?

A. The development of refrigeration.

B. The influence of ice on the diet.

C. The transportation of goods to market.

D. Sources of ice in the nineteenth century.

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