Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage
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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, 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 forgetful | | B．the owners of some luggage can’t be identified | | C．they are in a hurry | | D．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 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 |
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. |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:D |
解析
试题分析：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 come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come 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。
点评：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。文章基本上是考查细节题，对此类题型考生可以首先从问题中找到关键词，然后以此为线索，运用略读及查阅的技巧在文中迅速寻找这一细节，找到后再把这一部分内容仔细阅读一遍，仔细比较所给选项与文中细节的细微区别，在准确理解细节的前提下，最后确定最佳答案。 |
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When you’re an employee of a company, no matter the size, it’s common to see co-workers promoted, or transferred to a different department. But there is another way to move around—by creating a new position for yourself. I did this several years ago, though I wasn’t actively looking for a different job.
In 2007, I was hired at the Transamerica Life Insurance Company, as a customer service representative in the distributions services department. I processed requests for distributions from our annuity(养老金)policy holders around the country. Someone might have forgotten to sign a form, for example, or might have omitted security information. To solve the problem, I’d mail the person a letter.
The company had been through several combinations, so in our department alone we had a collection of about 140 templates(模板) for letters related to distributions. The longer I worked with the letters, the more I saw how they could be improved. Some had overlapping information and could be combined. Some had incorrect grammar or needed updating. I also noticed that industry terminology(专业术语) wasn’t standard across all the versions.
When I told my department supervisor about this in 2008, she agreed that the letters needed revamping. She said I should stop what I’d been doing and start the new work. In a relatively short time, I was able to make numerous improvements and reduce the number of letters to 70. It was an informal job change until a managers’ meeting several months later.
At that meeting, a vice president who was unaware of my new work mentioned that the division’s entire stock of 1,700 letters should be reviewed. My manager told her that she knew the perfect person for the job—me. The position was still considered temporary when I took on the extra tasks, but I was able to show that the work had value, and I was officially promoted and given a raise in November 2009.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1, which of the following statements is true? | A．The author admired those who got a promotion in his company. | | B．It is no surprise to see people around us change their positions. | | C．The author tried his best to get a promotion in his company | | D．The author was eager to seek another job. |
小题2:Which of the following problems with the letters is NOT mentioned in the passage?| A．Some information was overlooked. | | B．Some information needed to be united. | | C．Some had grammatical mistakes. | | D．Industry terminology didn’t meet the standard. |
小题3:The underlined word “revamping” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .| A．repeating | B．rebuilding | C．improving | D．strengthening |
小题4:The author started to review the letters when .| A．he was hired by the company | | B．he was promoted | | C．he was recommended at a managers’ meeting | | D．his department supervisor agreed his idea |
小题5:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?| A．Where there is will, there is a way. | | B．Creating a position, and earning a promotion. | | C．Don’t let the chance go, when it comes. | | D．Ways to get a promotion. |
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It happened to me recently that I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of the current US President. The person I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, “a wonderfully written book.” However, he then proceeded to talk about Mr. Obama in a way that suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar(说谎者)．
And it seems that he is not the only one. Clearly two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In The World Book Day survey, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The survey lists top ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading. As I’m not one to lie too often, I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire ten books. But I am pleased to say that I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s absolutely outstanding．
Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to impress someone they were speaking to. This could be difficult if the conversation became more in-depth!
The World Book Day survey also has some other interesting information in it. It shows that many people lie about having read classical works by Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens and so on. But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, they named JK Rowling, Jilly Cooper, and Stephen King. Forty-one percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story．
So which books have you lied about reading —if any — and which is your favorite?
小题1:The main reason why people lie about reading is to __________. | A．make fun of the listener | B．impress the listener | | C．please the listener | D．interest the listener |
小题2:The underlined word “proceeded” in the passage probably means“___________”.| A．wanted | B．happened | C．continued | D．stopped |
小题3:What is the best title for the passage?| A．Are You A Book Liar? | B．Readers Are All Liars | | C．World Book Day | D．Dreams From My Father |
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Silence is unnatural to man．He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness．In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else．Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence．If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蜡塑人像）.
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito （蚊子）.But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people"s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
小题1:According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.| A．in the hope of learning something new | | B．in the hope of getting on well | | C．about whatever they want to | | D．about whatever they have prepared |
小题2:According to the author, people make conversation to______.| A．achieve success in life | | B．overcome their fear of silence | | C．exchange ideas | | D．prove their value |
小题3:What is the author"s purpose in writing the passage?| A．To persuade people to stop making noises． | | B．To explain why people keep talking． | | C．To discuss why people like talking about weather． | | D．To encourage people to join in conversations． |
小题4:By "the buzzing of a fly"(Para.1), the author means"_____".| A．the voice of a chatterbox | | B．meaningless talk sound | | C．a low whispering | | D．the noise of an insect |
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A recent survey shows that the alarming rate of child suicide(自***) in Hong Kong, raising levels of stress and anxiety among young people, increasing conflicts between children and teachers, and children’s complaints that their parents do not understand their problems—all point to a drop in “emotional quotient” (EQ) (情商), the ability to handle relationships.
EQ is defined as the ability to deal with oneself and others effectively. High EQ, psychologists say, is easy to spot. Some of the greatest humanitarian (人道主义的) leaders have high EQ, along with successful managers and inspirational and respected teachers. The problem is not how to spot high EQ but to improve on low EQ, so society as a whole can benefit.
In the United States, declining EQ among young people is seen as one of the factors behind rising young people’s crime because youths fail to understand others’ feelings—one of the key components of EQ. While the situation in Hong Kong is not so bad, there are warning signs that the levels of anxiety among youth may become critical. Declining EQ among Hong Kong teenagers has been acknowledged by several studies including a key study by the education concern group, the Learning-Teacher Association, which found a high degree of anxiety among students over the future and also that young people lacked confidence in dealing with problems. Parents and teachers will also need to develop their own EQ skills in order to deal with them effectively.
Daniel Goleman cites a number of basic elements of high EQ: first, awareness of your feelings as you experience them which is very important to making good decisions in life; second, feeling or awareness of what others are feeling. “90% of emotional information is expressed non-verbally and people vary in their ability to pick it up,” Dr. Goleman says in his book.
Dr. Goleman argues that without high EQ even highly-educated, highly-intelligent people will not find success in life. Or those with low EQ, even though they may be brilliant, tend to lack feeling and impulse control. They fail easily, and they are easily intolerant and often aggressive in interpersonal relations. Some educational psychologists believe work on EQ may be important in Hong Kong with its high rate of suicide among school children. EQ test may be able to help predict those most at risk, and those least able to deal with their own emotions or unable to deal with others, including parents and teachers.
小题1:According to the passage, children in Hong Kong commit suicide at an alarming rate as a result of _______.| A．parents not understanding their children | | B．the rising levels of stress and anxiety among young people | | C．the inability of dealing with relationships | | D．increasing conflict between children and teachers |
小题2:We can infer from the passage that people with low emotional quotient _______.| A．are least likely to become good leaders | | B．can deal with oneself and others effectively | | C．are beneficial to society | | D．are more likely to be respected |
小题3:The word “its” in the last paragraph refers to ________.| A．the work on EQ | | B．Hong Kong | | C．EQ | | D．China |
小题4:Daniel Goleman believes that _______.| A．one can be just as successful without having a high EQ | | B．only people with both high EQ and high IQ will be successful in life | | C．people with low intelligence will not get a successful life | | D．people not having high EQ may not be successful in life despite being extremely intelligent |
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Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older.
Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.
The findings came from a survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.
The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.
The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
小题1: What is the report about?| A．The relationship between happiness and age. | | B．The influence between happiness and unemployment. | | C．The tendency between family and health. | | D．The expectation between age and children. |
小题2:Suppose John is 90 years old and Mike is 24, which of the following is True about them according to the research?| A．John is happier and more energetic than Mike. | | B．Mike is happier but weaker than John. | | C．John is more sad and worried than Mike. | | D．Mike is more worried and depressed than John. |
小题3: One of the possible reasons why the older one gets, the happier one becomes is that _______.| A．they have had enough bad experiences | | B．they become more grateful about the things they own | | C．they have found it easy to forget their pains and pressures | | D．they have lost their ability to control themselves |
小题4: Which of the following is true according to the passage?| A．Having young children affects the levels of happiness of the old. | | B．Emotional patterns can change the physical structures of human’s brains. | | C．It’s reported that women at all ages are happier than men. | | D．Why happiness increases as people get older is still an unsolved mystery. |
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