A few days ago, he was just Colonel (上校) Yang; Few people knew his name or recognized his face. But last Thursday, when he came back to the earth after a 21-hour trip to space, Yang Liwe's smile was seen across the world above the magic words:“China’s first spaceman”.

    The 38-year-old astronaut was sent into space at 9 a. m. last Wednesday by China’s Shenzhou V spacecraft, which orbited the earth 14 times. He landed safely at 6: 23 a. m. the next day, making China the third country to successfully send a person into space, after the former Soviet Union and the US.

    Yang was satisfied with his job. “I have seen many landing scenes before on video, and I think ours was one of the most successful,” he said on a special plane to Beijing after landing.

    Born into an ordinary family in Liaoning Province, he became a pilot in the Chinese Air Force in 1987, spending 1, 350 hours in the air. He joined the Chinese space programmer 11 years later.

    While in space, Yang recorded everything he saw as well as showing China’s national flag and the United Nations’ flag to the people watching on TV at home. He also ate a meal of diced chicken and fried rice, before taking a 3-hour nap. The whole project went according to plan, but space exploration is not as easy as it seems.

    Anyone who saw the destruction of the US space shuttle Columbia in February this year will know that Yang took a great risk.

    He experienced extremely high temperatures, while the gravitational forces (重力) on takeoff and landing were strong enough to force tears from his eyes.

    He has spent five years training to become a spaceman.

    "I eat all of my meals at the space programmer’s dinning room and have never been able to take my son to kindergarten," he said. "I’ve never met his teachers."

    But becoming China’s first spaceman has made all the effort worthwhile.

    “When I boarded the spacecraft for the first time, I couldn’t help feeling excited,”he said.“I decided that I had to fly it.”

    To Chinese people, Yang is now a hero. One visitor to a Xinhua news agency online forum (网上论坛) said:“Yang’s trip is a giant leap forward for China.”

    Officials say the next Shenzhou will be launched by 2005. China also plans to develop space walking and a space lab.

1. What is the main idea of the story?

    A. China’s first manned space flight.

    B. A hero with great courage

    C. The first Chinese man in space

    D. How Yang Liwei became China’s first spaceman

2. How long did each of Yang’s orbits take on average?

    A. 1 hour.　　　　　　  B. 1. 5 hours.　　　　 C. 6 hours.　　　　    D. The story didn’t mention.

3. Why did the writer mention the gravitational forces on takeoff and landing?

    A. To stress the hardship and the spaceman had to experience.

    B. Because it was a very special experience for any spacemen.

    C. To stress how much training he had to do to prepare for the flight

    D. To show that Yang is lucky.

4. Why did the writer use“giant leap”in the title?

    A. Because the space flight marked China’s great progress in the field of space exploration.

    B. Because Neil Armstrong said it was a "giant leap" for mankind when he first set foot on the moon.

    C. Because the space flight was a huge success.

    D. Both A and B.

听力

请听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，每个小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第1段材料，回答第1至3题

1．Whom is the woman buying the gift for?

[　　]

A．Her cousin.

B．Her nephew.

C．Her brother.

2．How much does the woman want to spend on the gift?

[　　]

A．Twenty dollars.

B．Thirty dollars.

C．Fifty dollars.

3．What is the first gift the clerk suggests to the woman?

[　　]

A．A football.

B．A pen and a pencil.

C．A desk lamp.

听第2段材料，回答第4至6题

4．What is the woman preparing?

[　　]

A．Lunch.

B．Afternoon tea.

C．Supper.

5．What is the woman going to do?

[　　]

A．Lay the table.

B．Cut the bread.

C．Open the orange juice.

6．What's the possible relationship between the two speakers?

[　　]

A．Teacher and student.

B．Doctor and patient.

C．Host and guest.

听第3段材料，回答第7至9题

7．How many flights to Munich are there on the evening of the fifteenth?

[　　]

A．One.　　B．Two.　　C．Three.

8．Which flight does the man want to take?

A．4:45　　B．5:45　　C．7:00

9．What does the woman promise him to do?

[　　]

A．Phone to tell him about the booking.

B．Send him the ticket he has booked.

C．Pick him up and take him to the airport.

听第4段材料，回答第10至12题

10．Why is the man asking about Professor David?

[　　]

A．The man is going to take the professor's course.

B．The man is going to ask the professor some questions.

C．The man is going to work for the professor.

11．How old is Professor David?

[　　]

A．In his sixties.

B．In his fifties.

C．In his forties.

12．What's Professor David like?

[　　]

A．Short and fat.

B．Tall and thin.

C．Old and untidy.

听第5段材料，回答第13至15题

13．What was the speaker?

[　　]

A．A student who was about to graduate.

B．A student who graduated years ago.

C．A student who had just entered the school.

14．What made the speaker feel sad as well?

[　　]

A．To have no chance to learn.

B．To begin a new life.

C．To be separated from each other.

15．What was the main purpose of the speech?

[　　]

A．To say good-bye to their school.

B．To thank their parents and teachers.

C．To encourage all the schoolmates.

1. When was the man going to come back from Newcastle?

    A. At 4:45pm.　　　　　　　　   

B. At 5:00pm.　　　　　　　　 

C. At 5:25pm.

2. How many trains was he told to choose?

    A. One.　　　　　　　　　　　　 

B. Two.　　　　　　　　　　  

C. Three.

3. What did the man want to know?

    A. The times of trains to Newcastle.

    B. The times of trains to King’s Cross station.

C. The times of trains back from Newcastle.

Houston,Texas(June8,2002)---In 2004,the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)will send two robots( 机器人 )to separate places of Mars to seek out past and present signs of water.It is an exciting idea to send two robots driving over very different places of Mars at the same time,to be able to see what is on the other side of the hill.

Last month,NASA announced(宣布)it was sending one robot to Mars,but after two weeks,it decided there was enough money for two.The robots will be sent up within two weeks of each other in May and June of 2003 from Kennedy Space Center.If all goes well,the two spacecraft（宇宙飞船)will touch down on Mars,after a seven-and-a-half-month space flight,on January 2 and 20,2004.

The robots,each weighing 150kilograms can cover 100 metres per day.They are designed to be able to examine the mineral(矿物质 )content of the soil,and their special camera will take pictures of the lands and hills.Although they will be under control from Earth,the robots are able to move more freely compared to those sent up before them.

The actual landing points have not been determined yet,but the scientists say it will be in areas where they hope to find water.

1.According to the news report,scientists plan to send robots up to Mars to ______.

A.find out whether there is water on Mars

B.see if robots can find minerals there

C.test how fast robots can drive there　　

D.prove that robots can work on Mars

2.How long in between will the two robots be sent to Mars?

A. 1 year　 B.7.5 months　 C.2 months 　 D.2.weeks

3.One of the important jobs for the robots on Mars is to _________.

A.study the soil　　　　 B.walk everywhere

C.test the new camera　　 D.find a suitable landing point