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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.
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
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
B. all the things there are very cheap.
C. visitors may purchase something undervalued.
D. Visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.
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.
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.
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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.
B. The author tried his best to get a promotion in his company
C. The author was eager to seek another job.
D. It is no surprise to see people around us change their positions.
B. Some information was overlooked.
C. Some had grammatical mistakes.
D. Industry terminology didn"t meet the standard.
B. rebuilding
C. repeating
D. strengthening
B. his department supervisor agreed his idea
C. he was recommended at a managers" meeting
D. he was promoted
B. Don"t let the chance go, when it comes.
C. Creating a position, and earning a promotion.
D. Ways to get a promotion.
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| 语法填空。 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的 词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 In many countries, ___1___ is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the shared space. ___2___, in the United States, this idea may still be considered odd. But this type of housing, ___3___(call) co-housing, is gaining ___4___ (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes are popping up across the country. For many people, this way of life is a relief to the busy modern lifestyle. A co-housing community has ___5___ (private) owned houses and shared land. There is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities ___6___ (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned. A co-housing complex is a place ___7___ residents shop, cook, and eat together. Residents of a co-housing complex like its sense of shared community. Children have other kids to play ___8___, ___9___ many families like. Other residents like the feeling of living in a “ village”. Residents also say that they can live in co-housing for ___10___ (little)money than they would pay for nearby apartments. | ||
| 阅读理解。 | ||
| The knowledge society will be a highly competitive one, for organizations and individuals alike. Information technology, although only one of many new features of the next society, is already having one hugely important effect: it is allowing knowledge to spread near-instantly , and making it accessible to everyone. Given the ease and speed at which information travels, every institution in the knowledge society-not only businesses, but also schools, universities, hospitals and increasingly government agencies too-has to be globally competitive, even though most organizations will continue to be local in their activities and in their markets. This is because the Internet will keep customers everywhere informed on what is available anywhere in the world, and at what price. This new knowledge economy will rely heavily on knowledge workers. At present, this term is widely used to describe people with considerable theoretical knowledge and learning :doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants chemical engineers. But the most striking growth will be in “knowledge technologists”: computer technicians, software designers, analysts in clinical labs, manufacturing technologists, paralegals. These people are as much manual（体力劳动)workers and they are knowledge workers; in fact, they usually spend far more time working with their hands than with their brains, but their manual work is based on a substantial amount of theoretical knowledge which can be acquired only through formal education ,not through an apprenticeship（学徒期). They are not, as a rule, much better paid than traditional skilled workers, but they see themselves as "professionals”, just as unskilled manual workers in manufacturing were the dominant social and political force in the 21th century, knowledge technologists are likely to become the dominant social-and perhaps also political-force over the next decades. | ||
| 1. The chief reason for keen （激烈的）competition in the knowledge society is that _________. | ||
| A. organizations and individuals are easily influenced by information B. customers keep track of new products worldwide C. anyone can have access to knowledge anytime and anywhere D. local organizations such as universities and hospitals will be globalized. | ||
| 2. The quick spread of knowledge in the next society___________. | ||
| A. is based on information technology B. results from a highly competitive society C. is likely to increase information flow D. will become the biggest problem to tackle | ||
| 3. “Knowledge workers” mentioned in the essay most probably refer to ________. | ||
| A. those with primary and secondary education B. those who work with hands rather than brains C. those who have acquired theoretical knowledge through apprenticeship D. those who have received higher education and got theoretical knowledge | ||
| 4. All of the following are characteristic of “knowledge technologist” except that ________. | ||
| A. they spend more time on manual work than on mental work B. they are equipped with a large amount of theoretical knowledge C. they see themselves professionals rather than traditional skilled workers. D. They acquire skills through traditional apprenticeship | ||
| 5. The underlined word “dominant” in this passage probably means________. | ||
| A. most influential B. most interesting C. most diligent D. quite available | ||
| 阅读理解。 | ||
| There are all sorts of good sensible reasons to avoid getting angry . Not only does it make us feel bad , it also makes us do stupid things without noticing the risks and it can be self-destructive ( 毁坏 性的) . 1 But like all emotions ,anger has its purposes, which can be used for good effects . Anger is a motivating force . In fact anger itself is a kind of positive energy and a powerful motivating force. 2 .When we see something as beneficial , we want it more when we are angry . So, when used right, constructive anger can make us feel strong and powerful and help push us on to get what we want. 3 It may sound like a strange thing to say , but angry people have something in common with happy people. That"s because both tend to expect favorable results. By comparison those experiencing more fear are more pessimistic (悲观的) about the future and expect further terrors. Anger can benefit relationships. Society tells us anger is dangerous and we should hide it .The problem is that when we hide our anger, our partner doesn"t know he"s done something wrong. And so he keeps doing it 4 The expression of anger, if reasonable and aimed at finding a solution, can actually benefit and strengthen relationships. Anger provides self-understanding. Anger can also provide understanding into ourselves, if we allow it. Getting angry leads to a positive outcome. Anger help discover our own faults. If we can notice when we get angry and why, then we can learn what to do to improve our lives 5 A. Anger reduces violence. B. Anger can encourage self-change. C. Angry people are more optimistic. D. And that doesn"t do our relationship any good. E. That"s because it"s a very strong social signal that a situation needs to be solved. F. Most of us treat our anger as though it"s unreasonable, unshowable and unmentionable. G. Anger can turn us on and thus push on towards our goals in the face of problems and barriers. | ||