ACT真題每日一練1.18

English Question for Monday, January 18th, 2016

Bessie Coleman: In Flight [1]

After the final performance of one last practice landing, the French instructor nodded to the young African-American woman at the controls and jumped down to the ground. Bessie Coleman was on

her own now. She lined up the nose of the open

cockpit biplane on the runway's center mark, she gave the engine full throttle, and took off into history. [2]     It was a long journey from the American

Southwest she'd been born in 1893, to these French skies.

The year in which she was born was about a century ago. There hadn't been much of a future for her in Oklahoma

then. After both semesters of the two-semester year at Langston Industrial College, Coleman headed for Chicago to see what could be done to realize a dream. Ever since she saw her first airplane when she was a little girl, Coleman had known that someday, somehow, she would fly. [3]     Try as she might, however, Coleman could not obtain flying lessons anywhere in the city. Then

she sought aid from Robert S. Abbott of the Chicago Weekly Defender. The newspaperman got in touch with a flight school in France that was willing to teach this determined young woman to fly. [4]

[1] While they're, she had as one of her instructors Anthony Fokker, the famous aircraft designer. [2] Bessie Coleman took a quick course in

French, should she settle her affairs, and sailed for

Europe. [3] Coping with a daily foreign language and flying in capricious, unstable machines held together with baling wire was daunting, but Coleman

persevered.  [5]     On June 15, 1921, Bessie

Coleman, earned an international pilot's license, issued by the International Aeronautical Federation. Not only was she the first black woman to win her pilot's wings, she was the first American woman to hold this coveted license. [6]     She was ready for a triumphant return to the

United States to barnstorm and lecture proof that if

the will is strong enough for one's dream can be attained.

　　Choose the best alternative for the underlined part 4.

　　F. NO CHANGE

　　G. Southwest that she’d been

　　H. Southwest, where she’d been

　　J. Southwest, she was

　　謎底：H

　　【剖析】The best answer is H. It provides the relative pronoun and the punctuation that effectively relates this subordinate adjective clause to the main clause of this sentence. The main clause is as follows: "It was a long journey from the American Southwest to these French skies." The subordinate clause is describing or defining the American Southwest: "where she'd been born in 1893." Since this clause occurs in the middle of the main clause and is not essential or restrictive information, it must be set off from the main clause. Choices F and G fail to do so. Choice J does set the phrase off with commas but fails to provide a pronoun that would effectively relate this clause to the main clause.

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