John Flynn was born in Australia in 1880. His father was a schoolteacher. John studied hard and in 1911 he left the city of Melbourne and went to work in South Australia for the Presbyterian Church. The church wanted to help the sheep farmers who lived in the outback many kilometers from towns and cities. They built a number of small hospitals and found nurses to work there, but at that time there were only two doctors in all of South Australia.

One story Flynn often told was about Jimmy Darcy. One day, Jimmy had an accident on his farm so friends took him to see F.W. Tuckett, who worked at the post office at Halls Creek. It was a journey of 22 km. Tuckett was the only person in the area who knew anything about medicine. He tried to help but Jimmy was too ill. Tuckett finally talked by radio to a doctor in Perth, a city 1, 500 km away. The doctor took ten days to arrive. He travelled by car, by horse and on foot and when he arrived, Jimmy was dead. Flynn saw the planes could really help people in the outback. He wrote about his idea for a “Flying Doctor” in 1917, but it wasn’t until 1928 that a flying doctor actually took off. By the 1930s there was a Flying Doctor plane in every part of Australia.

1.The underlined word “outback” means" a_________ place.

A.popular B.lonely C.beautiful D.wonderful

2.What was the problem in South Australia?

A.The nurses weren’t very good. B.There were no hospitals.

C.There weren’t enough doctors. D.There were too many people.

3.What does Flynn tell us about Jimmy?

A.He know something about medicine.

B.He was a doctor.

C.He had an accident.

D.He wrote the book Flying Doctor.

4.What do we know about the doctor from Perth?

A.He travelled too slowly to save Jimmy.

B.He had problems with his car.

C.He didn’t know the way to Halls Creek.

D.He saved Jimmy’s life.

Have you ever made something that no one else had made before? People who make something new are called _______.

Victor Ochoa was one of those people. He _______ many things and one of them was a flying machine. In 1908, he was thinking about _______ birds used their wings and went into the sky. He hoped to make a machine that _______ like a bird. Soon he took action and began to _______ birds carefully to learn how their wings worked.

Finally, he used what he learned to build a plane. The body of the plane was made of two _______ side by side. The plane had a small motor(发动机)that sat between the two bikes. The back was shaped like a bird’s tail. The wings were _______from a common plane.

They could even be folded(折叠)down like a bird’s wings. Amazing!

Victor wanted to help people with his ideas. His mind was like a motor that never turned _______. He was always trying to make life better and easier. He did not let any _______ stop him from making other things.

However, not all of his ideas worked. No one who tries something new is ________ every time. The most important is to keep trying and never give up.

1.A.dreamers B.inventors C.players D.drivers

2.A.collected B.fixed C.sold D.made

3.A.how B.when C.where D.why

4.A.stood B.ate C.flew D.sang

5.A.look for B.look at C.look after D.look up

6.A.bikes B.chairs C.boxes D.sticks

7.A.absent B.free C.far D.different

8.A.off B.over C.up D.on

9.A.habits B.difficulties C.feelings D.choices

10.A.grateful B.colorful C.successful D.careful

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