2017-2018学年北师大版高中英语选修六习题：第十六单元检测 Word版含答案.docVIP

第十六单元检测 (时间:100分钟　满分:120分) 第一部分　阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分) 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。 A Anne Morrow Lindbergh,born in 1906 in Englewood,New Jersey,was a famous pilot and writer.Her father was a very rich banker.She wanted to become a writer.She won two major prizes from the college for her writing. Anne Morrow was a quiet,shy and small young woman when she met Charles Lindbergh in 1927.Charles Lindbergh was one of the most famous people in the world.He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean,from New York to Paris.Two years later,Anne and Charles Lindbergh were married.Reports about their marriage were on the front pages of newspapers around the world. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh,Anne became a pilot.She began making many long airplane flights with her husband.In 1930,she became the first woman in the United States to get a pilot?s license to fly a glider.That same year,the Lindberghs set a speed record for flying across the United States.The Lindberghs explored new ways to fly around the world.Anne and Charles Lindbergh were famous around the world. Then in 1932 something terrible happened.The Lindberghs? first baby,twenty-month-old Tony,was kidnapped from their home in New Jersey.The body of the baby was discovered more than ten weeks later.Anne Morrow Lindbergh never fully recovered from the death of her first child.Yet,she and her husband had five more children.Anne Lindbergh began writing to ease her sadness.She wrote several books about the flights with her husband. During the 1970s,Anne Lindbergh wrote several more books about the happy and sad events of her life.She wrote about the joy of flying.She also wrote about the pain she and her husband felt after the body of their baby son was discovered.She also wrote about the many different kinds of pressures that women faced. Many people have been influenced by the way she dealt with both happiness and sadness.They respect the way she lived li