When Naraya was invited to a dinner by a friend who worked at NASA, she was excited. Many people flew planes there. “I showed my great interest,” she said, and someone told her, “You should join the flying club!” The next day, Naraya, who was 57 then, decided to meet a coach (教练). She asked, “Am I too old?” He said, “We’ve got students in their 80s.” ①
Naraya grew up in Southhall, west London, and got terrible racist bullying (种族歧视) at school. As she reached her late teens, her family hoped she could be married (结婚) soon. “I really didn’t like it,” she says. “I want to be an astronaut (宇航员)! My mother made a promise (承诺), ‘If you get an education, we will not ask you to get married.’” ② Naraya studied Biology at Leicester University, then got further education at St. Andrew.
After that, she went on to study at the University of California. “I didn’t feel I would be able to get away if I didn’t do that,” she says.
In 2020, Naraya’s seven years’ dream came true. She got her pilot’s licence (飞行证). Then she tried to join NASA’s astronaut companies, but they didn’t want her.
She once said, “I wasn’t able to find out what to do. It didn’t go away.” ③
Flying helped her out. It tells her what is more important in life. “I can see eagles, bears and mountain lions. I love the beauty of the clouds. They are like hills, but much larger than our hills,” she says. Now Naraya chairs (担任主席) the board of the General Aviation Awards in the US. She is comfortable with this new job, but she still enjoys flying. She says, “When flying, I’m part of a large group of people who are talking by radio. There is no sense of skin colour. We are all tied together by our voices.” ④
() 4. What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. You are too old to learn.
B. You are never too old to learn.
C. Some students were born in the 1980s.
D. There are about 80 students in the club.
() 5. What does the underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 refer to (指)?
A. Getting married.
B. Making a promise.
C. Learning to fly.
D. Getting an education.
() 6. How old was Naraya when she got her pilot’s licence?
A. 57 years old.
B. 64 years old.
C. 67 years old.
D. 82 years old.
() 7. The sentence “The racist bullying she met as a child was a very long shadow (阴影).” should be put in .
A. ①
B. ②
C. ③
D. ④
() 8. What does flying bring to Naraya?
A. A different view of life.
B. A good way of travelling.
C. A lot of knowledge (知识) of flying.
D. An excellent ability of study.

三、信息还原（10分）
Li Shizhen, a well-known medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty, is thought as a great master of medicine in China. 1. Countless lives were saved because of his hard work.
Li was born in 1518 in Hubei. Both his grandfather and father were doctors. 2. During that time, Li knew a lot about animals, plants and medicine. Li’s father hoped he could be an officer, but Li failed the exam three times. He then turned his attention to medicine.
At the age of 33, Li became famous for curing（治愈）Prince Zhu Houkun’s son. Then he was invited to work at the Imperial Medical Institute（太医院）. When working there, he read many ancient medical books. 3. To deal with it, he decided to leave his job and focus on writing a book about herbs（草药）.
4. He got much first-hand experience and collected different kinds of herbs during the travel. After 27 years of hard work, his first draft（初稿）of Bencao Gangmu was complete in 1578. 5. It is thought as one of the greatest scientific achievements（成就）of the Ming Dynasty.
A. He put all his heart into medicine.
B. Li lived a hard life after leaving the job.
C. The book is very detailed and well organized.
D. But Li showed little interest in being a doctor.
E. To finish the book, Li travelled to many places.
F. He noticed a mess in the naming and categorization（分类）of herbs.
G. From childhood, Li went to the mountains with his father to pick herbs.