C. Deducing Meaning from Context. Choose the closest meaning for each of the phrasal verbs in bold. Look back at the context and think about the situation described.

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Part 2

Part 1

B. Read part 2 again and match these headings to the correct paragraphs. Careful – there are two extra headings that you don't need.

A. Read the text. Which part of the airport is describes in part 1?

While you read

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1. Exotic treasure
2. Why don't they claim them?
3. How it works
4. Suspicious contents
5. But that's mine!
6. Shoppers' paradise
7. Computers for sale

It's happened to everyone. You're going on holiday, you arrive at some foreign airport and head for baggage reclaim. The conveyor goes around, people pick up their bags and you're still waiting, certain that yours is the one piece of luggage that's gone to some other part of the world.

When it finally comes through, you relax and head off for your hotel. But as you leave, you turn around and there's one piece of luggage that just keeps going round and round and round with no one left waiting.

Ever wondered what happens to it?

1. ________________ Well, I can tell you. In America, at least it will probably turn up in Scottsboro, a tiny town famous only for Unclaimed Baggage – a wonderful store that picks up the pieces left behind in airports and sells them at bargain prices. You can pick up almost everything here: clothes, computers, cameras, sunglasses, CDs and jewellery – they even get enough snow gear to hold an annual ski sale.

2. ________________ Walking around what is essentially a department store, you have to wonder at the kind of things people don't collect or leave in planes and never try to find. They even have a children's section that's full of pushchairs and baby car seats.

3. ________________ ‘We've had some strange stuff,' says marketing director Brenda O'Cantrell. ‘A full case of Egyptian artifacts, including a mummified falcon; a painting valued at $20,000 and a 5.8-carat diamond ring.' The front of the store even has a small gallery dedicated to some of the stranger stuff. Here, you'll find a full-sized model of the character Hoggle from the science fiction film Labyrinth, a rare violin made by a student of Stradivarius, and the one item from the Egyptian case not handed to a museum.

4. ________________ Founded in 1970 by Doyle and Sue Owens and now owned by their son Bryan, the store is based on a simple concept. Airlines have to keep baggage for 90 days after it's not claimed. Usually, in that time the baggage is returned to its owner. But, either for insurance purposes or because the baggage contains something suspicious, many people fail to claim their cases. The airlines were left holding the bags in storage – a costly operation. Doyle simply offered to buy these goods.

5. _________________ Unfortunately, if you fail to follow up your claim with an airline, you can't do anything if you visit Unclaimed Baggage and find some of your stuff. The store has legally bought the goods. There has ever been a case where one man bought a pair of ski boots for his wife with the insurance money they had received in compensation for a lost pair – and found they were the ones they'd lost!