【聚焦中考】（浙江地区专版）2014中考英语总复习 第47讲 阅读理解（二）课件（考点精讲+考点跟踪突破+13年中考真题） 外研版.pptVIP

猎豹图书 聚焦中考——英语（外研版） 第47讲　 阅读理解(二) * 阅读理解。(2013，杭州) In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days，there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men，or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks.But_then_in_1930，a_woman_called_Ellen_Church_invented_the_“stewardess”． Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didnt want to work on a farm or marry a farmer—she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilots license. 阅读理解(二) * Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a mans world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous，she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot.But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel.There were often delays(延误)，many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B．A.T. agreed. 阅读理解(二) * The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses. At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes，but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardess” had to be under twenty-five-year-old，single and slim. When a woman joined an airline，she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was a hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned $1 an hour. 阅读理解(二) * In the 1970s，stewa