Jack is going to be a pilot. He wants to fly an airplane. But Jack is not a rich man. He doesn’t have an airplane. He has only a chair. Jack ties(系)45 big balloons(气球)to his chair and then sits in the chair. His chair goes up.

For a few minutes, everything is fine. The view from the chair is beautiful. Jack can see houses and trees below him. He is happy. He is flying.

The chair goes up very high. Jack is afraid. “I don’t want to go very high,” Jack thinks.“I want to go down a little.” With a small gun(枪),Jack shoots l0 balloons. Then something terrible happens. Jack drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. Jack can’t shoot more balloons. The chair goes up and up.

Jack is three miles above the ground. Airplanes are flying over him and under him Jack has a small radio. “ Help! Help!” he says into the radio. “ I’m flying in a chair, and I want to come down!” People hear Jack, but they can’t help him.

Jack flies in the chair for 45 minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air. Slowly the chair comes down, and Jack is back on the ground. He is not hurt.

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。

1.What does Jack want to be?

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2.Why does the chair go up into the air?

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3.What does Jack do when the chair goes up higher and higher?

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4.Do the airplanes give him any help?

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5.Why does the chair come down at last?

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When she was just 9 years old, Katie Stagliano planted a cabbage seed(卷心菜种子)in a garden outside her house. She cared for it every day by watering it, weeding it and giving it plant food. It grew to be HUGE!Forty pounds huge!

Katie wanted to do something special with this very special cabbage. With her mom’s help, she decided to donate(捐赠)it to a local soup kitchen to help feed the hungry in her community of Summerville. South Carolina.

When she arrived to make her donation, she saw a long line of people waiting for food. Then, Katie served her cabbage to the guest. As the many people thanked her, she knew she could and should do more to help.

With the help of her parents and school, Katie’s Krops was born! Katie’s Krops plants gardens to grow food that is donated to local soup kitchens to feed the hungry.

Katie’s dream is to end hunger around the world. So, after she created several gardens in her community, she decided to do more. She wanted to help other kids create gardens in their communities!

As of 2017, 7 years after she started, there are now 83 Katie’s Krops gardens growing across the United States! All of the gardens are led by kids between the ages of 9 and 16.

1.What is “something special” Katie did at last in Paragraph 2?

A. Building her first garden. B. Giving the cabbage plant food.

C. Helping mom in the local soup kitchen. D. Donating the cabbage to people in need.

2.Who runs the 83 gardens?

A. Hungry people there. B. Katie Stagliano herself.

C. Teenagers from 9 to 16. D. Parents and schools together.

3.Katie’s Krops _______.

A. creates a lot of jobs for local people B. has its own soup kitchens everywhere

C. is now all over South Carolina. the US D. helps fight hunger in their own communities

4.Katie’s story sounds_______.

A. encouraging B. relaxing C. boring D. tiring

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