As my train was delayed for two hours, I had plenty of time to spare. After buying some newspapers to read on the journey, I made my way to the ___1___ office to collect my heavy suitcase I had ___2___ there three days before. There were only a few people ___3___, and I took out my wallet to find the receipt for my case. The receipt didn’t seem to be where I had left it. I ___4___ the contents, and railway tickets, money scraps of paper and photos fell out of it; but no matter how ___5___ I searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.
When my turn came, I ___6___ the situation sorrowfully to the assistant. The man looked at me ___7___ as if to say that he had ___8___ this kind of story many times and asked me to ___9___ the case. I told him that it was an old, brown looking ___10___ no different from the many cases I could see on the shelves. The assistant then gave me ___11___ and told me to ___12___ of the chief contents of the case. If they were ___13___, he said, I could take the case away. I tried to ___14___ all the articles I had ___15___ packed into the case and wrote them down as they came to me.
After I had done this, I went to ___16___ among the shelves. There were hundreds of cases there. For one dreadful moment, it ___17___ to me that if someone had ___18___ the receipt up he could have easily claimed(认领) the case already. This hadn’t happened ___19___, for after a time I found the case lying in a corner. After examining the articles inside, the assistant was ___20___ and told me I could take the case away.
1. A. posting   B. working     C. luggage      D. manager’s
2. A. left B. forgotten    C. found  D. bought
3. A. standing B. crowding    C. talking       D. waiting
4. A threw      B. put     C. looked       D. emptied
5. A. often      B. much  C. hard    D. soon
6. A. said B. searched     C. spoke  D. explained
7. A. now and then B. up and down      C. here and there    D. back and forth
8. A. knew      B. realized      C. heard  D. seen
9. A. describe  B. draw   C. take out      D. show
10. A. object   B. matter C. subject       D. wallet
11. A. a paper B. a note C. a message   D. a form
12. A. sign names   B. make a list  C. write down D. draw a picture
13. A. everything   B. wrong C. correct       D. ready
14. A. draw    B. remember   C. read    D. remind
15. A. carelessly     B. suddenly    C. hurriedly    D. immediately
16. A. see       B. watch  C. find    D. look
17. A. happened     B. occurred     C. appeared    D. seemed
18. A. picked  B. collected    C. taken  D. stolen
19. A. fortunately   B. unluckily    C. by chance   D. presently
20. A. disappointed B. surprised    C. satisfied     D. worried