WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE BEST TITLE FOR THIS PASSAGE
Câu 37. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A. Youngest Ever Nominee for the Oscars
B. Young Actors Achieve Big for the Oscars
C. A Young Actress makes it to the Oscars
D. Little Lady Nominees for the Oscars
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate
the correct answer to each of the questions.
No sooner had the first intrepid male aviators safely returned to Earth than it seemed that women, too,
had been smitten by an urge to fly. From mere spectators, they became willing passengers and finally
pilots in their own right, plotting their skills and daring line against the hazards of the air and the
skepticism
of their male
counterparts. In doing so they enlarged the traditional bounds of a women's
world, won for their sex a new sense of competence and achievement, and contributed handsomely to
the progress of aviation.
But recognition of their abilities did not come easily. "Men do not believe us capable." The famed
aviator Amelia Earhart once remarked to a friend. "Because we are women, seldom are we trusted to
do an efficient job." Indeed old attitudes died hard: when Charles Lindbergh visited the Soviet Union
in 1938 with his wife, Anne-herself a pilot and gifted proponent of aviation - he was astonished to
discover both men and women flying in the Soviet Air Force.
Such conventional wisdom made it difficult for women to raise money for the up - to - date equipment
they needed to compete on an equal basis with men. Yet they did compete, and often they triumphed
finally despite the odds.
Ruth Law, whose 590 - mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York, set a new nonstop distance
record in 1916, exemplified the resourcefulness and grit demanded of any woman who wanted to fly.
And when she
addressed
the Aero Club of America after completing her historic journey, her
plainspoken wordstestified to a universal human motivation that was unaffected by gender: "My flight
was done with no expectation of reward," she declared, "just purely for the love of accomplishment."