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高考一轮复习：选择性必修三 Unit 4 教材串讲提升练 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 Pat Patterson, a pilot for 25 years, had never met anyone like the handsome young man in the wheelchair who faced him at the Medford, Oregon airport on July 28, 1976. Mike Henderson, a quadriplegic (四肢瘫痪者), wanted flying lessons. As a 22-year-old Coast Guardsman eight years before, Henderson had fallen off a dock and landed on a floating log, breaking two of his bones. Doctors said that he would probably never walk again, let alone fly. “Here was this doctor telling me how it was going to be，” he says, “but no one was going to limit my freedom to try.” Henderson parked his wheelchair next to the airplane and began to climb up onto the wing. He injured his elbow on the way, and after a great struggle, finally managed to pull himself into the airplanes pilots seat. In the flight office, Pat Patterson watched in disbelief. “He crawled his way up that wing！”he says. “It took him 45 minutes. When I went out, he was sitting in the pilots seat, bleeding from his injured elbow all over the place. When I saw him go through that much pain, I knew nothing could stop him.” Now everything was up to the instructor and the student, and together they set about solving each problem as it arose. A small piece of carpet gave Henderson traction(摩擦力)to climb the slippery wing. A headset freed his hands from the radio microphone, and the two men developed a moving bar that enabled Henderson to operate the airplane more easily. Three weeks and eight flying hours after the first lesson, Henderson and Patterson happily phoned Dr Stoddard — Hendersons physician. At the airport, as the physician looked on, Henderson quickly wheeled himself around the airplane, doing a thorough, professional ground check. With Patterson and Dr Stoddard on board, he went through his preflight instrument check. Minutes later, engine starting, the plane rolled down the runway and took off into the gray sky. 1. When did Mike Henderson become disabled? A. At the age of 25. B