选修8 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions(单元主题语篇训练)-【创新方案】2024版高考英语一轮复习（老教材 新高考 人教新课标）

班级： 姓名： 学号： 选修⑧ Unit 3 单元主题语篇训练 I.阅读理解 Maasha's experience with NASA wasn't the It can be easy to brush off certain events as only thing that came in handy that day.The small matters that don't require attention-but;engineer first fell in love with aviation as a when the safety of dozens of airplane passengers was teenager growing up near an airport in Monrovia. on the line,this NASA engineer decided to:Liberia."Looking back,I guess I had the perfect speak up. sets of circumstances to recognize the issue that Rumaasha Maasha was preparing to fly from;day,"he said."Since I was a kid,I've always tried Huntsville to Colorado back in January when he to sit in a window seat near the wing,and as I grew spotted a liquid leak from his window seat on the up.I was determined to run after my dream during wing. my university years.That's not the first time I've "Normally,if it's a wet day,you'll see vortices:noticed something.I'm sure it won't be the last. (off the wing.About 1,000 feet off the 1.When did Maasha realize something went wrong? ground,I started seeing something white and:A.Before the plane started to fly. thought.,'Maybe we're just hitting some humidity B.When the white thing continued to leak. ().Well,after a while it was still doing it,C.After he settled on his window seat. and that's when I knew something was up.I looked D.When he first noticed the liquid. closer and immediately realized that we were losing:2.What does the underlined word"diminished"mean fuel."Maasha also knew that as the plane increased: in Paragraph 4? in altitude,the situation would get worse. A.Worsened. B.Decreased. "I gestured for the flight attendant to come over C.Occurred. D.Continued. and fortunately she was very attentive,"he said.3.What played a major role in Maasha's brave "She called the crew and the key thing is that she did; action? this as we were still climbing up.Within a minute or A.His birth place and home location. two,they reduced speed and leveled off.The fuel B.His uni