It’s Sunday. There are many  1  in the bus. And an old man is   2  here and there. He wants to find an empty  3  . Then he finds one. He goes to it. A small   4 is on the seat. And a young man is  5   it.
“Is this seat  6  ?” asks the old man.
“No, it’s for  7  . She goes to buy some bananas .” says the young man.
“Well.” Says the old man. “Let me sit here, please. When she comes back, I will leave here.”
The bus starts.
“ She doesn’t come,  8   her bag is here . Let me give her the bag.” The old man throws the bag  9    of the window.
The young man jumps up and shouts , “Don’t throw! It’s 10   bag.”

  Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station．Each time when Spring Festival comes，buying tickets of train trip would be very hard．And things seem to be getting worse and worse，although we have greatly increased the mileage(总里程) of railway network and speeded up trains．Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family．Many people become angry with the Ministry(部)of Railways．They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station．Instead，they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at much higher price．
The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计) that about 216 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period(高峰期) during the 2010 Spring Festival holiday．The number of travelers will be 8％higher than that of 2009．This problem even attracted the President Hu Jintao’s attention．He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways，asking him to make sure of a “smooth and safe” transportation．Afterwards，officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station．
【小题1】 What does the underlined word “scalper” in the first paragraph mean?