Passage 3

Sixteen-year-old Maria was waiting in line at the airport in Santo Domingo.She was leaving her native country to join her sister in the United States.She spoke English very well.Though she was very happy she could go abroad,she was feeling sad at leaving her family and fiends.As she was thinking all about this,she suddenly heard the airline employee asking her to pick up her luggage and put it on the scales（称）.Maria pulled and pulled.The bag was too heavy and she just couldn’t lift it up.The man behind her got very impatient.He,too,was waiting to check in his luggage.

Maria，十六岁，她正在圣多明各(多米尼加首都)的机场排队等候。她正要离开自己的祖国去美国和她的姐姐团聚。她的英语讲得很好。虽然她要出国了觉得很高兴，但此时要离开她的家人和朋友也很伤心。正在她想这些的时候，她突然听到机场的工作人员正在叫她把行李放到称上。Maria拉了又拉，包太重，她根本抬不起来。她后面的男人很不耐烦了。他也是等着托运行李的。

“What’s wrong with this girl?”He said,“Why doesn’t she hurry up?”He moved forward and placed his bag on the counter,hoping to check in first.He was in a hurry to get a good seat.

“这女孩怎么了？”他说道，“她为什么不快点？”他走到前面，把包放在台上，希望能先登记。他急着想要得到一个好的座位。

Maria was very angry,but she was very polite.And in her best English she said,“Why are you so upset?There are enough seats for everyone on the plane.If you are in such a hurry,why can’t you give me a hand with my luggage?”

Maria很生气，但她很有礼貌。她用最优美的英语说，“你为什么如此伤感？飞机上的每个人都有座位。如果你真的很急，为什么不能帮我搬一下行李？”

The man was surprised to hear Maria speak English.He quickly picked up his luggage and stepped back.Everyone was looking at him with disapproval.(224 words)

这男人听到Maria会讲英语觉得很惊讶。他很快拿起自己的行李退了回去。每个人都很不赞成得看着他。

6.Maria’s story happened ________.Maria的故事发生在什么时候？

A.when she was leaving America 

B.on her way back to Santo Domingo

C.before she left the USA 

D.when she arrived at the airport她到达机场后。

7.You believer that the work of the airline employee mentioned in the story is to _______ at the airport.

你认为故事中提到的机场工作人员的工作是什么？

A.help carry people’s luggage 

B.ask people to pick up the luggage

C.check people’s luggage检查旅客的行李

D.take care of people’s luggage

8.“Why are you so upset?”Maria said to the man.She wanted to tell him that he should not be _______.

“为什么你如此伤感？”Maria对那个男人说。她这么说是要告诉他不要不高兴。

A.surprised 

B.sad 

C.unhappy 

D.sorry

9.“Everyone was looking at him with disapproval.”This sentence means that the people around felt _______.

“每个人都很不赞成地看着他”这句话的意思是周围的人为这男人的行为感到很遗憾。

A.worried about Maria 

B.worried about the man

C.sorry for Maria’s manners 

D.sorry for the man’s manners

10.The author mentioned Maria’s age at the beginning of the story in order to show that _________.

作者在故事的开头就提到Maria的年龄是为了表达什么？

A.she was young but behaved properly她很小，但行为很得体。

B.she would not have left home alone

C.everyone around her was wrong

D.it was not good that nobody offered to help her