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Yi So－yeon, an engineer from Seoul, returned to Earth on Saturday after 11 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and US astronaut Peggy Whitson.
A technical problem turned a routine (常规) return to Earth into a sharper than usual descent (下降) that tested the group members' stamina and courage. They landed in the Kazakh steppes ( 大草原) about 420km (260 miles) wide of their target.
“During the descent there was some kind of fire outside the Soyuz capsule because we were going through the atmosphere，” Yi said.
“At first I was afraid, but the two other guys looked okay, so I tried to look okay too.”
Yi smiled and joked her way through a 10－minute news briefing at Star City, the wooded Soviet era cosmonaut training centre on the edge of Moscow. However, Malenchenko and Whitson looked tired and thin after nearly six months in space. Their answers were short and Whitson needed support to balance when she walked. The 29－year－old Yi has become famous in South Korea since the take－off but she brushed this aside and said she has had little contact with friends or family since returning.
“In fact, they are the heroes right now，” Yi said, referring to Malenchenko and Whitson. “I'm just a beginner and a little ashamed to say that I am a hero.” She did, though, relate a more light－hearted incident on the ISS.
“I sang Fly Me to the Moon” Yi said about the 1950s pop song. “It's my favorite song from university although at that time I didn't know I would be an astronaut.”
The capsule's so－called “ballistic” re－entering made the group members face twice the usual pull from the centre of the earth. The flames Yi described may have been caused by friction (摩擦) heating the capsule as it fell through the atmosphere.
Whitson told reporters that Saturday's ballistic landing, was irregular but not an emergency.
“The Soyuz has been through its history very reliable and there has obviously been some issue in the last couple of descents which went ballistic, but I'm sure the engineers will determine what the problems are and get them fixed，” she said.
In October, a Soyuz capsule carrying Malaysia's first space tourist touched down about 200 km (125 miles) off_course in a similar ballistic landing caused by a technical problem.
The Soyuz is the world's longest－serving manned space capsule. An early version of the craft, the Vostok, carried the first person into space in 1961.
Whitson, 48, has become the American with the longest amount of time in space with 377 days.
1. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. Flight in space is very dangerous
B. Not everybody can go into space
C. Fearful landing tests the Korean astronaut
D. Yi didn't know she would be an astronaut when she was young
2. The reason why Yi So－yeon felt afraid at first was that ________.
A. a fire was caused by the friction
B. she had no such experience before
C. she was not brave enough
D. the other two didn't help her
3. From the passage, we can learn that ________.
A. Yi So－yeon, a space tourist came from South Korea
B. Whitson became energetic when they landed on earth
C. the two other guys were not afraid during the descent
D. the Soyuz, an unmanned space capsule, had a long history
4. The underlined phrase in this passage means ________.
A. out of work B. out of control
C. in the wrong direction D. in danger
5. We can conclude from this passage that ________.
A. experience is very important for astronauts to ensure safety
B. Yi So－yeon will never return to the space station
C. people are not willing to experience the space flight
D. we should draw a lesson from the accident
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From as early as I can remember to the time I left home for college, I continued to come to him
with a design or an idea, and he would figure out how to build it.
In fifth grade, a schoolmate and I wrote a puppet(木偶) show that we wanted to perform for
our class. I made the puppet heads myself, and I made the costumes and curtains with Mon-who
was as expert designing and sewing with cloth as my father was designing and working with wood
and metal. With Dad I made the puppet stage, in our own invented style between kid and adult
with me saying something like, " It has to be this high, and it needs to come apart and fold up so it
can fit in the backseat of the car, and it needs to set up fast, and it needs to have different colored
lights on top with switches you can reach to control them and a curtain you can pull from under it,
even if you still have a puppet on your hand." Dad figured out how to make it all work, making plans
as we went along. Then with the tools in his shop he built it, and I helped.
Dad also spent a lot of time out in the garage or in the driveway working on the family car. I don't
remember that he ever took it to a professional auto-repair shop. Maybe to save money, but also
because he could usually figure out what needed fixing, just by taking it apart and looking. Though
not trained as an auto mechanic, he could look under the engine cover and take parts and pieces out,
spread them on a tarp (油布) to catch the oil and figure out what was supposed to happen to the
machine and then figure out what wasn't happening and then replace the worn-out part or whatever
and then put everything back together again.
B. father's love and skills in mechanics
C. father's experience at repairing cars
D. father's inventions in mechanics
B. His classmate.
C. His teacher.
D. His parents.
B. building his design or idea
C. making a puppet show
D. building a show stage
B. Father works in a car repairing shop.
C. Repairing in a shop can save much money.
D. Father was good at mending his car.
B. in memory of his parents
C. to describe to the readers his memories about his father
D. to argue that parents should help children to explore the world and make inventions
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As I grew older, Dad was to build all sorts of things for me as I explored a variety of interests: magic tricks, a toy circus, neighborhood shows and science projects.
From as early as I can remember to the time I left home for college, I continued to come to him with a design or an idea, and he would figure out how to build it.
In fifth grade, a schoolmate and I wrote a puppet(木偶) show that we wanted to perform for our class. I made the puppet heads myself, and I made the costumes and curtains with Mon---who was as expert designing and sewing with cloth as my father was designing and working with wood and metal. With Dad I made the puppet stage, in our own invented style between kid and adult with me saying something like, “ It has to be this high, and it needs to come apart and fold up so it can fit in the backseat of the car, and it needs to set up fast, and it needs to have different colored lights on top with switches you can reach to control them and a curtain you can pull from under it, even if you still have a puppet on your hand.” Dad figured out how to make it all work, making plans as we went along. Then with the tools in his shop he built it, and I helped.
Dad also spent a lot of time out in the garage or in the driveway working on the family car. I don’t remember that he ever took it to a professional auto-repair shop. Maybe to save money, but also because he could usually figure out what needed fixing, just by taking it apart and looking. Though not trained as an auto mechanic, he could look under the engine cover and take parts and pieces out, spread them on a tarp (油布) to catch the oil and figure out what was supposed to happen to the machine and then figure out what wasn’t happening and then replace the worn-out part or whatever and then put everything back together again.
36. If you are the writer, you are supposed to write about ________ahead of the first paragraph.
A. father’s achievement in mechanics
B. father’s love and skills in mechanics
C. father’s experience at repairing cars
D. father’s inventions in mechanics
37. Who helped the writer to make the puppet?
A．The writer himself. B．His classmate. C．His teacher. D．His parents.
38. Before the writer went to college, he always turned to his father for _____________.
A．designing a machine B．building his design or idea
C．making a puppet show D．building a show stage
39. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．The writer’s car is always breaking down.
B．Father works in a car repairing shop.
C．Repairing in a shop can save much money.
D．Father was good at mending his car.
40. The purpose of the writer’s writing the passage is ______________.
A．to tell how his father made a puppet for him
B．in memory of his parents
C．to describe to the readers his memories about his father
D．to argue that parents should help children to explore the world and make inventions
查看习题详情和答案>>As I grew older, Dad was to build all sorts of things for me as I explored a variety of interests: magic tricks, a toy circus, neighborhood shows and science projects.
From as early as I can remember to the time I left home for college, I continued to come to him with a design or an idea, and he would figure out how to build it.
In fifth grade, a schoolmate and I wrote a puppet(木偶) show that we wanted to perform for our class. I made the puppet heads myself, and I made the costumes and curtains with Mon---who was as expert designing and sewing with cloth as my father was designing and working with wood and metal. With Dad I made the puppet stage, in our own invented style between kid and adult with me saying something like, “ It has to be this high, and it needs to come apart and fold up so it can fit in the backseat of the car, and it needs to set up fast, and it needs to have different colored lights on top with switches you can reach to control them and a curtain you can pull from under it, even if you still have a puppet on your hand.” Dad figured out how to make it all work, making plans as we went along. Then with the tools in his shop he built it, and I helped.
Dad also spent a lot of time out in the garage or in the driveway working on the family car. I don’t remember that he ever took it to a professional auto-repair shop. Maybe to save money, but also because he could usually figure out what needed fixing, just by taking it apart and looking. Though not trained as an auto mechanic, he could look under the engine cover and take parts and pieces out, spread them on a tarp (油布) to catch the oil and figure out what was supposed to happen to the machine and then figure out what wasn’t happening and then replace the worn-out part or whatever and then put everything back together again.
36. If you are the writer, you are supposed to write about ________ahead of the first paragraph.
A. father’s achievement in mechanics
B. father’s love and skills in mechanics
C. father’s experience at repairing cars
D. father’s inventions in mechanics
37. Who helped the writer to make the puppet?
A．The writer himself. B．His classmate. C．His teacher. D．His parents.
38. Before the writer went to college, he always turned to his father for _____________.
A．designing a machine B．building his design or idea
C．making a puppet show D．building a show stage
39. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A．The writer’s car is always breaking down.
B．Father works in a car repairing shop.
C．Repairing in a shop can save much money.
D．Father was good at mending his car.
40. The purpose of the writer’s writing the passage is ______________.
A．to tell how his father made a puppet for him
B．in memory of his parents
C．to describe to the readers his memories about his father
D．to argue that parents should help children to explore the world and make inventions
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