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1、阅读理解特训：3真2模含解析2014届高三英语二轮突破27第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AMillions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesnt always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And p
2、assengers leave all kinds of things on planes.The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They dont keep them, since theyre not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.
3、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 numbe
4、r-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the stores 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 h
5、ockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.The stores 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 st
6、ore 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 pharaohs 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 p
7、ermanently lost and available to the store.26. Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because_.A. they are forgetfulB. they are in a hurryC. there is no lost and found office in many airportsD. the owners of some luggage cant be identified【答案】D【解析】细节理解题。根据Airline identification tag
8、s（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。27. 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 expensiveD. they have to keep the bags as long as
9、possible【答案】B【解析】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。28. The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because_.A. theres a large variety of goods.B. all the things there are very cheap.C. visitors may pur
10、chase something undervalued.D. Visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.【答案】C【解析】细节理解题。根据More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the stores shopping carts on a hunt for treasures. veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewe
11、ls to hockey sticks人们可以买到一些便宜的东西，故选C。29. 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
12、are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store.【答案】B【解析】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。30. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To introduce how th
13、e 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】A【解析】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。BWhen youre an employee
14、 of a company, no matter the size, its common to see co-workers promoted, or transferred to a different department. But there is another way to move aroundby creating a new position for yourself. I did this several years ago, though I wasnt actively looking for a different job. In 2007, I was hired
15、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 se
16、curity information. To solve the problem, Id 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 combi
