题型:完形填空 题类:常考题 难易度:困难
河南省八市重点高中联盟2020届高三上学期英语9月“领军考试”试卷
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight on the way from Boston to Los Angeles. A flight attendant asked a (n) 1 question over the loudspeaker: "Does anyone on 2 Know American Sign language?"
Clara, 15 at the time, 3 the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the 4. "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf," she said. The passenger 5 to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn't 6 out what he needed, according to people.com.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her 7 in reading and knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's 8. So she 9 her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and 10 by the aisle seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she 11, "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 her third 12, she stopped and stayed a while.
"He didn't need 13. He was lonely and wanted to talk" Clara says.
So for the next hour, that's what they did. She 14 about her family and her plans for the future (she wants to be a politician). Cook told Clara how he had 15 become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. 16 he couldn't see her, she "looked attentively at his face with such 17," a passenger reported.
"Clara was 18," a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. "You could 19 Tim was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such a(n) 20."
Cook's reaction: "Best trip I've ever had."
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