试卷第1 页，共8 页 八年级下册英语短文选词填空 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、短文选词填空 man, usually, she, traveler, happy, impossible, call, invent, another, passenger, child, work In the 1920s and 1930s, the airlines were just beginning. It was 1． for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men, or “steward” , helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930, a woman called Ellen Church, 2． the “stewardess” . Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iova. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on the farm or marry a farmer --- she wanted a more adventurous life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years, she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got 3． pilot’s license. Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a 4． world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a job as a pilot. But she had another idea. Most people were scared of flying because flying was still a very risky way 5．. It often crashed or was put off and the bad weather made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and Boeing Air Transport agreed. The young woman from Iowa and seven 6． nurses became the first air stewardesses. At first pilots were unhappy b...
