专题03 2021年中考英语阅读精选真题模拟题精讲练

Passage 3 Teen on Alaska Airlines A Intensive Reading Clara Daly was sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when she heard a worried voice over the loudspeaker:"Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?" Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button. An air hostess came by and explained the situation. "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf, " she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the air hostesses couldn't understand what he needed. Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help blind and deaf people and she knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's palm. So she rose from her seat, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the seat of Tim Cook, then Gently taking his hand, she signed, "How are you? Are you OK?" Cook asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On