限时练 13 阅读理解+语法填空+短文改错-【红对勾】2023版高考英语二轮复习讲与练

第一部分　 题型组合限时练　 　 　 　 　 限时练 13　 阅读理解+语法填空+短文改错 (时间:40 分钟) Ⅰ、阅读理解 (2022·江苏南通二模) When Narayanswami was invited to a dinner by a friend who worked at NASA􀆳s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she was excited. Many of the guests flew planes. “ I must have expressed some yearning (渴望),” she says, because someone told her “ You should join the flying club!” The next day Narayanswami, who was 57 at the time, arranged to meet an instructor. “ I said ‘Aren􀆳t I too old?’ He said ‘We􀆳ve got students in their 80s. ’” Narayanswami grew up in Southwest London, and at grammar school suffered horrific racist bullying. The library provided shelter. But, as she reached her late teens, she felt family pressure for an arranged marriage. “ I really protested,” she says. “But I want to be an astronaut! My mother made a promise: ‘As long as you are getting an education we will not look for a husband for you. ’” Narayanswami studied biology at Leicester University, then did a PhD at St Andrew, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of California. “Every time you move you get further away,” her dad remarked on the phone. “ I didn􀆳t feel I would be able to escape unless I did that,” she says. In 2020, aged 64, Narayanswami finished 423 flight hours she needed to earn her pilot􀆳s license. Then she applied to NASA􀆳s astronaut corps, but received a very appreciative rejection. Even now, at 66, she says “ I haven􀆳t been able to figure out how to deal with it. It doesn􀆳t go away. ” The racist bullying she rec