Up, Up, and Away!

An adventurer who became the first person to fly across the English Channel on a cluster（簇）of balloons has launched a house into the sky just like in the hit movie Up-in reparation for a more ambitious journey and a new record

Fearless Trappe , from North Carolina, stepped into the cartoon themed home before flying above the leon International Balloon Festivel in Mexico more than a week ago.

The 38-year-old Trappe was using the event as a warm-up for his planned trans-Atlantic flight scheduled for next summer ,He aims to complete the 2,500-mile journey in a seven-foot lifeboat carried by 365 huge helium（氦气）ballooms

The brave man is learning to sail a lifeboat ,in case he meeds to ditch (在海中迫降)into the ocean during the danger-filled adventure

He sill fly at between 18,000 feet and 25,000 feet , beating his previous world altitude record of 21,600 feet ,and must fly uninterrupted a distance ten times longer than his previous world record of 230 miles in order to succeed.

The adventurer Trappe ,who holes records for crossing the Alps, flying the most cluster balloons, and the longest distance , has opent his entire carreer ,building up to this ambitious plan.

“I didn’t wake up one day and think：‘I’ going to fly across the Atlantic, ’”he said “he said  Every attempt before this was prepared for this fight ,I’ve been training for a long time”

1.The adventurer flew across the English Channel to          

A．test the balloons

B．launch a house

C．shoot a hit movie

D．prepare for breaking a record

2.To finish the journey ,he will fly a distance of           

A．2500 miles        B．18,000 feet        C．25,000 feet        D．230 miles

3.About the ambitious journey ,which is NIT mentioned in the passage?

A．When he will fly                        B．How high he sill fly

C．How far he will fly                       D．How long it will take him

4.How many world records does Jonathan hold?

A．Two              B．Three            C．Four             D．Five

5.What does he last paragraph imply?

A．Trappe can’t sleep worrying about the adventure

B．Trappe was born to set world records

C．Trappe always keeps his ambition in mind

D．Trappe never thought of crossing the Ataantic before

At five he was collecting old newspapers to make money. And when he was 15 he signed his schoolmates up to start a baby-sitting circle.

Now 20, third-year Cambridge University student, Peter Blackburn is managing director of a company with a £ 30,000 plan. And he thinks it will make more than $15,000 by next summer. He set up Peter Blackburn Ltd last year to bring out a new, color term-planner that now students all over the UK are using.

"I felt that most of the planners going around were pretty unimaginative," he says, "I believed that I could do a better job and decided to have a go".

Blackburn admits that he is putting far more effort into business than his computer studies course at university. While fellow students are out with their friends, he keeps in touch with his business office in Lancashire by movable phone. Before he set up the company he spent one holiday preparing a plan that would persuade his bank to lend him money.

"Most students work hard for a good degree because they believe that will help them get a job to support themselves," he says "I work hard at my company, because that is what will support me next year, after I leave college."

Friends believe that Blackburn will make £ 1 million within 5 years. He is not quite so sure, however. "There's a lot to be done yet," he says.

1.Choose the right order of the facts given in the passage.

a. He spent his holiday preparing a plan.   b. He collected newspapers.

c. He set up his own company.           d. He asked the bank for money.

e. He set up a babysitting circle.

2.When he was quite young, Blackburn _______ .

3.The underlined expression in the fourth paragraph "have a go," here means _______ .

4.In spite of（尽管） a college student, Blackburn _______ .

5.Which of the following best explain why Blackburn works hard at his company?

Mrs. White became a teacher in 1985. She _____ for twenty years by next summer.

A. will teach    B. would have taught    C. has been teaching    D. will have been teaching

By next summer John _____in this factory for thirteen years.

Rather than talk about how he feels, often a man would express his love by buying the woman cosmetics (化妆品), or bringing home a flower, or giving up the control of the remote (遥控器).

And when men do talk, they’d prefer to talk about actions rather than emotions. For example, a lot of men would choose to express their long-range faith in a relationship by talking about next summer’s vacation plans, not by starting a conversation about undying love.

Men just prefer to say their plans with plane tickets, rather than poetry. It’s one of the reasons why men are more comfortable talking at work (the practical world) than they are at home (the castle that emotion built). But you can bring out his great communicator by making him feel more like he’s operating in the work mode, even when the topic at hand is your love life.

When men talk less and women want more, the conflict can escalate. Like when a policeman is questioning an unwilling witness, more silence equals more questions. A full 65 percent of men we surveyed recently told us that they don’t want their partners to ask them more questions about themselves.

It’s clear that some men are just tired of feeling like they’re on the witness stand. They’re not necessarily hiding anything; many men simply prefer not to have to tell confusing feelings that they may not even understand themselves.

An age-old method can make things better: back off a little, give him room to operate in a conversation, and he’s more likely to open up.

1.According to the author, men feel more comfortable when talking        .

A．actions                               B．feelings

C．long-term friendship                     D．conversations

2.How can women communicate more successfully with men?

A．They may give men a surprise by buying plane tickets.

B．They can ask men if they have a great time during working.

C．They might create a warm home environment first of all.

D．They can give men the feeling that they are talking at work.

3.The underlined word “escalate” has the similar meaning to       .

A．decrease          B．disappear         C．change           D．increase

4.From the text it can be inferred that       .

A．women are better at writing poems about emotions than men

B．it is natural for women to be fond of finding the faults of men

C．men are more interested in learning more about their partners

D．men prefer to pour out their hearts in a forgiving environment