Question

This is not a typical summer camp. Michelle Pawlaw and eight other teenage girls are participating in the three—day camp offered by the Arlington County Fire Department located just outside Washington. Firefighter Clare Burley is in charge of the program，who said the purpose is to try to get young women interested in considering the fire service as a career.

The free-of-charge，overnight camp is designed to let the girls experience what firefighters do to protect the community. That includes some rigorous activities such as moving a fire victim. “I dindn’t think I could pull that 170 pound body with a friend, but I was actually able to do it.” she said.

They take classes and learn how to climb the ladder on a fire truck, operate emergency tools and rescue an injured person. They also do their share of cleaning the firehouse and the equipment.

“Every week without fail on a Saturday，the job is to wash all the equipment. And we wanted the girls to see this is what we do. This is a typical day in a firehouse，”she said.

Firefighting is still a male-dominated service，but Burley says with 22 women on its force of 320 the Arlington County Fire Department is above the national average of 4.5 percent. She joined the department seven years ago.

“We do everything that the guys do to the same standard. We are tested to the same standard. We are expected to operate at the same standard，”she said.

Most of the girls say they had never thought about becoming a firefighter. but the camp was a great learning experience. ”I think it is definitely not a job that only men can do. Women can do it just as well as men can，”said Michelle Pawlaw.

1.What’s the purpose of the summer camp?

A. To tell the girls how to put firefighting knowledge into practice.

B. To teach the girls what to do when caught in fire.

C. To provide the girls with a typical summer camp.

D. To attract more girls to take firefighting as a career.

2.What can we infer from Paragraph 5？

A. Arlington County Fire Department is in the lead in employing women firefighters.

B. Arlington County Fire Department is the first to employ women firefighters.

C. More and more women are ready to join the fire department.

D. No women ever want to perform the firefighting service.

3.What can we infer from Michelle’s words in the last paragraph?

A. She has determined to join the firefighters in the future.

B. She will persuade her fellow students to join in the camp.

C. She realizes that women can also be good firefighters.

D. She decides that she’ll join in the camp again later.

4.What can we learn about the summer camp according to the passage?

A. American fire departments often hold such events.

B. It is sponsored by Arlington County Fire Department.

C. The girls spent their night in the summer camp，which lasted 3 days.

D. It is very popular among American girl students.

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了由Arlington County Fire Department舉辦的為期三天的夏令營活動，通過讓更多的女性青年參與，讓她們做一些消防隊員在保護社區(qū)過程中會做到的事情，她們從來沒想過自可以做這么多，跟男性一樣好，以此吸引她們考慮從事消防服務(wù)這一事業(yè)。

1.理解題。從第一段最后一句“Firefighter Clare Burley is in charge of the program，who said the purpose is to try to get young women interested in considering the fire service as a career.”可知目的是試著吸引更多的年輕女性考慮將消防服務(wù)做為一項事業(yè)，故選D。

2.推斷分析題。從文中第五段“Burley says with 22 women on its force of 320 the Arlington County Fire Department is above the national average of 4.5 percent.” Arlington County Fire Department的320名成員中有22位女性，這樣的比例高于國家平均百分之4.5。說明它在雇傭女性消防隊員中占第一位的，故選A。

3.推斷分析題。從“”I think it is definitely not a job that only men can do. Women can do it just as well as men can”我認為這不全是只有男人能做的，女人也能做的跟男人一樣好。選C。

4.理解分析題。運用排除法可去除選項A,B,D——在文中沒有提到。選C。

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