có thể dễ dàng tìm hiểu những gì một quot; xylophonequot hoặc quot; ba cửa hatchbackquot; trông giống như không lội qua các định nghĩa phức tạp. Từ điển các tính năng một bảng đầy đủ các nội dung | Anything to declare Read the text and answer the questions. What is the Queen s sewer What is the Queen s pipe What are the traditional goods What is the smuggler s eye Write down five tricks that smugglers use. Anything to declare Once a month a sad ritual is performed at the Queen s Warehouse at Heathrow. Four Customs men open hundreds of bottles of impounded liquor and invert them into crude wooden bottle racks. The spữit pours dữectly into a main drain called the Queen s Sewer thus foiling anyone who might want to catch and rebottle the evil eye-watering mixture of wines and strange spirits. The cloying scent of alcohol is sharpened by tobacco fumes as cartons of cigarettes and cigars are burned in an incinerator known as the Queen s Pipe. The warehouse is a large basement in the main Customs House on the north side of the airport conveniently close to the police station. It IS stuffed with goods seized by Customs in the Queen s name. The shelves are crammed with bottles each tagged with the airline flight number and the name of the passenger it was taken from. Some is sold off at regular auctions. But there are no buyers for the exotic or for bottles that have export labels or airline stickers on them. It is not worth the expense of relabelling and rebottling for the home market. So every month the doomed bottles are picked out Yugoslav Slivovitz Polish blackcurrant vodka Thai Mekong whisky sake and tequila. Occasionally a man will pause from his work before starting a jeraboam of Moet Chandon or a two-gallon botde of Black Label Scotch on its ignominious trip to the sewage works. The warehouse reflects the trends in amateur smuggling by passengers since professionals nowadays often smuggle goods by altering the import tax on invoices. The traditional goods as the Customs men call them still stand out in pure volume. In a typical year 1976 passengers arriving in Britain were relieved of 2 824 proof gallons of spứits and 1 879 watches. More than 11 000 of them
