ACT真題每日一練2.19_Hopetrip旅遊網

　　English Question for Friday, February 19th, 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 4.

　　F. NO CHANGE

　　G. Southwest that she’d been

　　H. Southwest, where she’d been

　　J. Southwest, she was

　　準確謎底：H

　　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.