If you’re like most kids, you’ve probably made more than a few paper airplanes in your day. But how many kids can say their paper airplanes have been built life-size and then flown? At least one: 12-year-old Arturo Veldenegro of Tucson, Arizona, who won the Pima Air& Space Museum’s first annual Great Paper Airplane Project Fly-Off in March 2012.
“ The purpose of the competition is to inspire and draw kids’ interest in science and flight,” says Tim Vimmerstedt, director of the museum.
About 150 kids entered the competition. The young designers learned about how airplanes fly and then set to work designing their own planes.
Arturo designed and built his airplane. When hen was finished, he took his plane to the flight area and let it fly, outdistancing the other competitors in all age groups. At last, Arturo’s airplane flew the farthest---more than 75 feet!
As the winner, Arturo got to meet with a team of engineers, which took his design and made a bigger one. The new paper airplane might have been the largest one ever built! Arturo named his large paper airplane Arturo’s Desert Eagle.
Later a helicopter tried to lift the paper airplane over the Arizona desert, but it was unsuccessful. Engineers worked for eight hours to repair it for a second try. This time, the helicopter managed to raise it to 2700 feet and then set the plane free.
Arturo watched as his plane flew through the sky at speeds of up to 98 miles per hour for 10 seconds before falling to pieces.
“I felt happy but sad,” Arturo says, “ It flew really well, but it was sad to see it destroyed.”
But that wasn’t the end of Arturo’s Desert Eagle. The Pima Air & Space Museum collected the pieces of the broken plane and put them on show to inspire other young engineers to reach for the sky.
小題1:According to the text, the Great Paper Airplane Project Fly-Off competition _______
A．has been held many times
B．can only be entered by kids
C．is to choose the largest plane
D．is held by a team of designers
小題2:The underlined word ”outdistancing” in Para 4 means ________
A．looking forB．believing inC．throwing awayD．leaving behind
小題3:What do we know about the paper airplane Arturo built?
A．It flew the highestB．It flew for 20 minutes
C．It flew more than 75 feetD．it took him eight hours to build
小題4:In the end, Arturo’s Desert Eagle ______
A．was made into a helicopter
B．was produced in many places
C．was sold to a team of engineers
D．was put on show in the museum

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:D

如果你像大多數(shù)小孩那樣的話，那么在那段時光里你大概做過許多紙飛機。但是又有多少小孩能說他們做的紙飛機已經(jīng)被做成實物大小，并且已經(jīng)被放飛，至少來來自亞利桑那州圖桑市的12歲少年Arturo Veldenegro在2012年3月贏得了Pima航天航空博物館舉辦的首屆紙質年度飛機放飛項目的第一名。
小題1:細節(jié)題，結合第2段“The purpose of the competition is to inspire and draw kids’ interest in science and flight”，競賽的目的就是激發(fā)和引起小孩對科學和飛行的興趣，故B正確。
小題2:詞義猜測，結合第4段“When it was finished, he took his plane to the flight area and let it fly, outdistancing the other competitors in all age groups. At last, Arturo’s airplane flew the farthest---more than 75 feet!”故D正確。
小題3:細節(jié)題，結合第4段“At last, Arturo’s airplane flew the farthest---more than 75 feet!”故C正確。
小題4: 細節(jié)題，結合文章最后一段“But that wasn’t the end of Arturo’s Desert Eagle. The Pima Air & Space Museum collected the pieces of the broken plane and put them on show to inspire other young engineers to reach for the sky.”故D正確。
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