广西玉林市育才中学2020-2021学年高二上学期10月月考试题《英语考试卷》.docxVIP

广西玉林市育才中学2020-2021学年高二上学期 10月月考英语试题 第一部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） A Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, in 1892. Her mother was African American. Her father was part African American, part an American Indian. Her family was poor. Bessie had to walk more than six kilometers to go to school. Bessie had to pick cotton and wash clothes to help earn money for her family. She was able to save a little money and went to college in the state of Oklahoma. She was in college only one year because she did not have enough money to complete her studies. But during that year, she learned about flying. She read about the first flight of the Wright brothers and the first American female pilot, Harriet Quimby. When she was twenty-three, Bessie Coleman moved to Chicago, Illinois to live with two of her older brothers. There she heard stories from pilots who were returning from World War I. She decided she was going to learn how to fly airplanes. But she soon found this to be almost impossible. What flight school would admit a black woman? Bessie learned that she would have a better chance in Europe. She began to study French at a language school in Chicago. Soon after the end of World War One, Bessie Coleman left for France. She attended the famous flight school, Ecole d Aviation des Freres Caudron. She completed seven months of flight training. Bessie Coleman earned her international permit to fly in 1921 and she became the first black woman ever to earn an international pilots license. Bessie returned to Chicago. She was the only black female pilot in the United States. So her story became popular in the African American newspapers. She was asked by the Dallas Express newspaper in Texas why she wanted to fly. She said that women and blacks must have pilots if they were to keep up the times. 1. Why did Bessie walk to school? A. She couldn’t afford to take the bus. B. She was stronger than others. C. She wanted to do physical exercise. D. She liked walking. 2. Bessie came to kn