文章大意:本文为一篇人物传记。文章主要讲述了美国航空先驱Amelia Earhart的一生中的重要时刻和成就。从她的童年冒险经历,到她对飞行的热爱和追求,再到她成为第一个飞越大西洋的女性飞行员等,都展现了她的勇气、决心和对飞行的热情。
Here is the story of American aviation (航空) pioneer Amelia Earhart.
Once upon a time, on July 24th 1897, a little girl was born in Ashes Kansas. As a child, Amelia was adventurous, climbing trees, collecting bugs, hunting rats with their rifle and exploring the neighborhood. Many historians have described Earhart as a “tomboy” growing up because of this.
Throughout her teen years, she moved around the middle west with her family. There after seeing the wounded soldiers returning from World War I, she decided to work as a nurse’s aid and got to know many of the wounded pilots and grew to admire them.
On December 20th, 1920, an important moment happened in Earhart’s life. She attended an air show with her dad in Long Beach. And she took a ten-minute plane ride that forever changed her life. She recalled, “By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.” Amelia’s new mission (使命) was to learn how to fly and she worked hard to achieve this new dream. She worked several odd jobs to save up for the very expensive flying lessons. Amelia had flown her plane to 14,000 feet, the world altitude record for female pilots. On may 15th, 1923, Earhart became only the 16th woman to be issued (颁发) with such a pilot’s licence.
In the mid-1920s, Earhart was not able to make a living as only a pilot, so she became a teacher and later a social worker. One afternoon in April 1928, a phone call came for Earhart at work. “How would you like to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic?” Captain Hulton Archive asked her on the other line. “Yes,” Amelia immediately replied. She became the first female to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, but only as a passenger, as Wilmer Stultz and Lewis Gordon acted as pilots. When the three returned to the United States, they were greeted with a parade in New York and a reception held by President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.
In August 1928, Amelia became the first woman to fly alone across the North American continent and back. In 1929, she entered Will Rogers Power Puff Derby and placed third. Earhart also became involved with the Ninety-Nines, an organization of female pilots, and then became their first president in 1930.
8. How would we understand the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4?
A.She found the pilots were admirable. |
B.She decided to be a nurse to help the wounded pilots. |
C.She would continue to take airplane rides with her Dad. |
D.She wanted to be a pilot when flying an airplane for the fist time. |
9. What can we learn about Amelia Earhart from the passage?
A.She grew up in a rich family and graduated with honors. |
B.She flew solo across the North American continent and back in 1928. |
C.She refused to fly the Atlantic Ocean with others at first in 1928. |
D.She became the first female president of the USA in 1930. |
10. How does the author develop this text?
A.By listing figures. | B.In place order. |
C.By comparing examples. | D.In time order. |
11. What can we learn from Amelia Earhart’s life choices?
A.Never too old to learn. | B.Well begun is half done. |
C.Two hands are better than one. | D.Where there is a will, there is a way. |