Question

【題目】 Set your clocks for 4:32 pm(eastern time)on May 27th, 2020. If everything goes as planned, a rocket will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

【1】 So what’s the big deal? The big deal is collection of firsts set to blast off on the 27th of May. The first humans carried aboard a rocket developed by a private company. The first humans aboard a reusable rocket.

Ever since the opening days of the space age, NASA has designed, built, and flown its very own rockets, and capsules. 【2】 The privately-held company Space X will be providing the big rocket boost(加濕器)needed to get NASA’s astronauts to the space, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Dragon crew capsule.

【3】 It is trying to make access to space cheaper, chiefly through the use of reusable rockets- once the payload is delivered into orbit, bring the rocket back down the Earth and polish it up for another ride.

In the meantime, NASA has spent the past decade in a highly bureaucratic version of hell. After the sad end of the space shuttle program in 2011, the American space agency was forced to rent seats on Russian made and Russian launched Soyuz rockets to get astronauts up to the International Space Station.

【4】 And now, if everything goes as planned on May 27th, we will make human access to space cheaper, more reliable, and absolutely easier. 【5】 Space tourism? Moon bases? I would say that the sky is limit, but the sky is just the start.

A.But this time, it’s different.

B.Rockets go off all the time from the Earth.

C.This made for great wounded national pride.

D.Most of the astronauts haven’t made it up into space.

E.Space X has spent the past decades working tirelessly.

F.NASA has been developing a new space launch system.

G.It’s impossible to say what kind of revolutions that might lead to.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】E

【4】C

【5】G

【解析】

本文屬于說明文。美國東部時間2020年5月27日下午4:32，一枚火箭將從佛羅里達(dá)州卡納維拉爾角的肯尼迪航天中心發(fā)射升空。短文介紹了此次火箭發(fā)射的意義。

【1】

根據(jù)上文：把你的時鐘定在2020年5月27日下午4:32吧。如果一切按計劃進(jìn)行，一枚火箭將從佛羅里達(dá)州卡納維拉爾角的肯尼迪航天中心發(fā)射升空。本空后面談到:這有什么了不起呢？由此本空選B，表示:火箭一直都是從地球發(fā)射的呀。該句起到了承上啟下的作用。故選B。

【2】

根據(jù)上文：從宇航時代開始，火箭和飛船都是由NASA設(shè)計建造和發(fā)射的。但這次不一樣。下文提及是由私人公司發(fā)射的。故A選項“但這一次，情況有所不同”切題。故選A 。

【3】

根據(jù)上文:Space X公司將為美國國家航空航天局的宇航員提供所需的火箭助推器，搭載一枚頂部裝有”龍”號太空艙的獵鷹9號火箭，本段應(yīng)該接著談Space X。本空的下一句是對本空的解釋，說明他們的目的，故E選項“Space X在過去的幾十年里不知疲倦地工作著”切題。故選E。

【4】

根據(jù)上文:2011年航天飛機項目結(jié)束后，美國航天局被迫租用俄羅斯制造和俄羅斯發(fā)射的Soyuz火箭的座位，將宇航員送上國際空間站。本空選C，與前一句是因果關(guān)系。故C選項“這件事使美國民族自尊心受到了很大的傷害”切題。故選C。

【5】

根據(jù)下文連續(xù)有兩個反問進(jìn)行舉例:太空旅游？月球基地？選項承接下文。故G選項“很難說太空飛行會帶來什么樣的革命”切題。故選G。