Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always e home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can e 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 panies 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.
【小题1】Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because .A．they are forgetfulB．the owners of some luggage can’t be identified C．they are in a hurryD．there is no lost and found office in many airports【小题2】The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that .A．they have to find the ownersB．they have to keep the bags as long as possibleC．some bags are expensiveD．they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose【小题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.【小题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.【小题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.B
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(答案→)B
解析：本文主要就是告诉我们在美国的机场里丢失的行李的处理方法。
【小题1】B 细节题。根据第一段1,2行Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always e home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can e loose, and the bags go who-knows-where说明很多行李的标签都脱落了，导致这些行李无法辨认。故B正确。
【小题2】D 推理题。根据第二段最后一句And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.说明航空公司是无权出售这些行李来获得利润的，故D正确。
【小题3】A 细节题。根据第三段最后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.说明很多的游客可以从这里买到很多很有价值的东西，故A正确。
【小题4】C 推断题。根据文章最后一段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.只有很少的乘客的东西会丢失，故C正确。
【小题5】D 主旨大意题。本文主要就是告诉我们在美国的机场里丢失的行李的处理方法，故D正确。