2. According to Parrish Traweek, Jessica Cox_____.

A. flies the plane by standing in it

B. is good at driving a car with her legs

C. has been her workmate for two years

D. is one of the best pilots trained by her

3. What can be known from the text?

A. Jessica Cox has been armless for 25 years.

B. Jessica Cox was normal when she was young.

C. There are no suitable prosthetic devices for Jessica Cox.

D. The doctors have discovered how Jessica Cox lost her arms.

4. The best title for the text may be "_______".

A. Flying with no hands

B. Jessica Cox, a disabled pilot

C. Living with a positive attitude

D. Two words will disappear from dictionaries

　　B

　　When Boris left school, he could not find a job. He tried hard and pestered (纠

缠)his relatives, but they had problems of their own. He answered advertisements

until he could not afford to buy any more stamps. Boris grew annoyed, then depressed, then a little hardened. Still he went on trying and still he failed. He began

to think that he had no future at all.

　　"Why don't you start your own business?" one of his uncles told him. "The world is a money-locker. You'd better find a way of opening it."

　　"But what can I do？"

　　"Get out and have a look round," advised his uncle in a vague sort of way. "See what people want; then give it to them, and they will pay for it."

　　Boris began to cycle around the town and found a suitable piece of a waste ground in the end. Then he set up his business as a cycle repairer. He worked hard, made friends with his customers and gradually managed to build up his goodwill and profit. A few months later, he found that he had more work than he could deal with by himself. He found a number of empty shops but they were all no good：in the wrong position，too expensive or with some other snag(障碍)．But at long last, he managed to find an empty shop on a new estate（土地，地区） where there were plenty of customers but no competition.

Boris and his assistant taught themselves how to repair scooters and motorcycles. Slowly but surely the profits increased and the business developed. At last, Boris had