English Question for Monday, February 15th, 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 onher own now. She lined up the nose of the opencockpit 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 AmericanSouthwest 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 Oklahomathen. 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. Thenshe 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 inFrench, should she settle her affairs, and sailed forEurope. [3] Coping with a daily foreign language
and flying in capricious, unstable machines held
together with baling wire was daunting, but Colemanpersevered.
[5]
On June 15, 1921, BessieColeman, 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 theUnited States to barnstorm and lecture proof that ifthe will is strong enough for one's dream can be
attained.
Choose the best alternative for the underlined part 13.
A. NO CHANGE
B. lecture and proof
C. lecture, proof
D. lecture proof,
謎底:C
【剖析】The best answer is C. This is a difficult question in a rather complex sentence. The clause beginning withproof serves as an appositive, a phrase that describes or defines a preceding noun. Appositives are set off from the main clause with commas and, in most cases, immediately follow the noun they are describing. Here, the appositive occurs at the end of the sentence but describes the subject at the beginning of the sentence(She). "She was ready for a triumphant return to the United States to barnstorm and lecture, proof that . . . one's dream can be attained." The punctuation decisions offered by Choices A and D would both produce an illogical phrasing because they propose that proof should serve as the direct object of the verblecture ("She was ready . . . to barnstorm and lecture proof . . ."). Choice B is equally illogical because it proposes that proof could function as a verb ("She was ready . . . to barnstorm and lecture and proof that . . . one's dream can be attained.")
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