第三部分：阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
China launched its first manned spaceship
at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, becoming the third country in the world to send a
person into orbit after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
Astronaut Yang Liwei became China’s first space man.
With a column of beautiful smoke, the
Shenzhou V craft cut across a bright northwest China sky at exactly 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday and went into orbit 10 minutes later.
China Central Television’s Channel One cut
into its regular programming to announce the launch. The station later showed
the Shenzhou V streaking(moving very fast)into the sky and disappearing, its
tracer billowing (to fill with air and become larger)behind it.
Minutes after the launch, a CCTV announcer
said that Shenzhou V and 38-year-old Yang Liwei, an air force pilot since 1983,
had “entered orbit at 9:10.” It reported Yang was “reading a flight manual(手册) in the capsule of the
Shenzhou V spacecraft and looked composed and at ease.”
The Shenzhou V launch came after four test
launches of unmanned capsules that orbited the earth for nearly a week before
parachuting back to China’s northern grasslands. Reports said the manned flight
was expected to last about 22 hours.
President Hu Jintao watched the launch at
the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China’s Gansu Province.
Hu called the launch “the glory of our
great motherland and a mark for the initial victory of the country’s first
manned space flight and for the significant, historic step of the Chinese
people in the advance of climbing over the peak of the world’s science and
technology.”
He said that: “The Party and the people
will never forget those who have set up the outstanding merit(贡献) in the space industry for
the motherland, the people and the nation.”
“The launch of the Shenzhou V is
long-awaited by the Chinese people,” Foreign Minister spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue
said on Tuesday. She said the flight was a key step in the “Peaceful
development of space.”
NASA Administrator Sean O’ Keefe also
congratulated on China’s first successful human space flight.
41. The following are countries succeeded
in sending man into space EXCEPT ____
A. China
B. Germany
C.
America
D. the former Soviet Union
42. The underlined word “composed” in
paragraph 4 means_____
A. happy B.
nervous C. calm
D. excited
43. According to the passage which of the
following statements is NOT true?
A. It’s the first time that China has sent
up its first manned spaceship.
B. Before the Shenzhou V launched, four
test launches of it had moved around the earth.
C. The 38-year-old astronaut was sent into
space by China’s ShenzhouⅤspacecraft and landed safely the next day.
D. Yang Liwei is China’s first astronaut in
space.
44. The writer quoted(引用) Foreign Minister spokeswoman
Zhang Qiyue’s words to express ________.
A. the Chinese have been expecting the
successful space launch and it’s a great contribution to the peaceful
development of space.
B. a lot of Chinese people are waiting for
the launch.
C. this launch is the first time in China.
D. China’s manned spaceship made a peaceful
development of space.
45. The description of Yang Liwei tells us
that _______.
A. Yang didn’t know what to do and he was
looking up a flight manual
B. it’s 10 years since he became an air
force pilot
C. Yang entered orbit at exactly 9:00 a.m.
D. Yang trained himself well and felt very
satisfied with everything in the space craft
