【题目】Everyone has done experiments in high school laboratoriesbut have you ever thought about designing a satellite to explore space

On Nov19a team of students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the US awed peers and even scientists by successfully launching a satellite

The first satellite designed and built by high school students was sent up into space along with a record setting28 other small ones on a rocket were sent from a NASA center in VirginiaCNN reportedIt took the students seven years to build

The students call their tiny satellite TJ3Satwhich is named after their schoolIt is just 10x10x12 centimeters and weighs only 089 kilogramsaccording to Orbital Sciencesa company which developed the rocket and supported the students’ projectIt can be controlled with a smartphone

Like most satellitesTJ3Sat can send and receive datAThe small spacecraft is equipped with a voice synthesizer (合成器)which can switch text to voice and transmit those sounds back to Earth over radio wavessaid Orbital officialsIn this caseanyone can give it a try via the project’s website (school website) by submitting (提交) a textThe texts that get approved will be sent to the satellitechanged to voice and then broadcast back to Earth via radio waves

“I can say ‘Go Colonials’on our ground station and when it is on the other side of the worldin Indiasomeone can hear‘Go Colonials’over the radio”the team explains on the website

The satellite will stay in space for at least three months

School principal Evan Glazer told The Washington Post that the project started in 2006 as an activity in the spare timeLater it became a research project for a select group of seniors

At a time when American students are busy with SATsthe launch of the satellite shows what diligent teenagers can achieve when allowed to pursue their own curiositiesGlazer said

“It used to be that kids growing up wanted to be an astronaut,” Andrew Petroprogram executive (主管) for small spacecraft technology at NASAsaid in a statement“I think we might be seeing kids saying what they want to do is build a spacecraftThe idea here is that they really can do that

1The underlined word “awed” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _____

A. influenced

B. amazed

C. delighted

D. inspired

2Which of the following statements about TJ3Sat is TRUE according to the article

A. It took a group of students about a decade to build the satellite

B. Besides TJ3Sat28 other small satellites were built by the students

C. TJ3Sat can receive text messages that the students send into spacewhich can be changed to voice messages and broadcast back to Earth

D. TJ3Sat is expected to stay in orbit for the next yearsending out messages together with information about its position in space

3According to the articlethe launch of the satellite _______

A. is evidence of the advance of spacecraft technology

B. proves that hard working teenagers can achieve a lot

C. shows the importance of extracurricular activities at school

D. has inspired many people to take an interest in space travel

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