题目内容
阅读下面短文,从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中,选出最佳选项。
Beijing plans to send up manned spaceship
ZHUHAI-China will soon put a person into space and become the third nation in the world to own manned space flight, a top Chinese aerospace (航空航天) official said on November 5.
A manned launch was not far off , Vice President Hu Hongfu of China Aerospace Science Technology Corp(CASTC) told a news conference at the third Zhuhai air show. “It will not be long before Chinese astronauts can ride locally-made spaceships into space,” Hu said. The official gave no timetable but said it would happen “at the beginning of the 21st century.”
The former Soviet Union and the United States have been putting people into orbit since the early 1960s, but other nations have not considered the challenge worth following.
China has already built and sent up its own satellites for communications and weather forecasting. The new communication satellites would help to encourage the country's broadcasting industry, he said.
But the company, which includes over 130 aerospace agencies, said that the lifting ability and success rate of China's launch spaceships were almost equal in quality to those of other countries.
China would gradually close the distance between its country's space industry and that of other nations. He added that they were willing to send up commercial satellites for Taiwan.
On China's plan to send up manned space flights, Hu said China had made important development after the successful launch (发射) in November last year of the country's first experimental spaceship, Shenzhou.
“The whole project is in the research stage and a lot of work needs to be done,” Hu said. “We need to have more tests of the unmanned spaceship.”
China last year announced a four-step manned space flight plan, with the aim of setting up a space station served by spaceship traveling between the two places.
1.The underlined word “they” here probably refers to ______.
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A.the former Soviet Union and the USA
B.over 130 aerospace agencies
C.Russia and China
D.Russia and the USA
2.The main idea of the last paragraph but one is _____.
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A.we haven't done any test of the manned spaceship
B.before we send manned spaceship, we should carry out many tests
C.though we tried once, we need to do more tests of the unmanned spaceship
D.sending up manned spaceship can show its country's scientific level
3.Which of the following is close to the underlined word“close”?
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A.shut |
B.drop |
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C.shorten |
D.widen |
4.The writer wrote the passage to ______.
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A.tell us the present situation of Chinese aerospace technology
B.remind us what we should do compared to other countries
C.find out the reason why our homeland fall behind with America
D.make us know that Beijing will send up manned spaceship
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