Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only traveled to space, but also many of them have lived there in space stations for some time.
The Soviet Union(前苏联) sent the first space station into space in 1971. This space station was called Salyut 1. Salyut 1 was designed as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of astronauts lived there for 23 days. The Soviet Union went on to make seven more Salyut space stations. At about the same time, the United States built its own space station, called Skylab.
Astronauts visited and often lived in these space stations for a short time. However, it wasn’t until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time. Mir stayed in space from 1989 until 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer safe to live in.
Living in space stations seems to be fun, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is food. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be stored in cans. The space station does not have a fridge, but it has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat that do not need special care.
Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away.
【小题1】Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2?

Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human was sent up into space in 1961. Since then, people have not only traveled to space, but also many of them have lived there in space stations for some time.
The Soviet Union(前苏联) sent the first space station into space in 1971. This space station was called Salyut 1. Salyut 1 was designed as a place where people could live while they observed space and did experiments. The first group of astronauts lived there for 23 days. The Soviet Union went on to make seven more Salyut space stations. At about the same time, the United States built its own space station, called Skylab.
Astronauts visited and often lived in these space stations for a short time. However, it wasn’t until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time. Mir stayed in space from 1989 until 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer safe to live in.
Living in space stations seems to be fun, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is food. All the meals on space station are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be stored in cans. The space station does not have a fridge, but it has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat that do not need special care.
Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while eating. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away

1. 1.

   Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2?

   1. A.
      Discovered
   2. B.
      Checked
   3. C.
      Watched
   4. D.
      Fixed
2. 2.

   What can we infer(推断)from the passage?

   1. A.
      Astronauts can never have a chance to eat fresh food when they live in space station
   2. B.
      The Soviet Union sent a total of 9 space stations into space in the 1970s and 1980s
   3. C.
      Astronauts could live in the Mir space station for no more than three weeks
   4. D.
      Space travel has quite a long history of more than 60 years
3. 3.

   What is the best title of this passage?

   1. A.
      Exploring Space
   2. B.
      Space Travel
   3. C.
      Living in Space
   4. D.
      Space Stations

阅读理解

　　The names of certain places in the United States make people think of big businesses. Detroit, a city in Michigan, means cars. Texas means oil. Wall Street in New York City means the stock market(股市) and “big money”.

　　There is another place-name that is well known in the U. S.A. That is Madison Avenue(迈迪逊大街). Madison Avenue in New York is the place where many advertising companies have their offices. And advertising is one of the biggest businesses in America.

　　The same kinds of things are produced and sold by many different companies in the U. S. A. Many different companies sell cars; many others sell oil, soap, and so on. Each company wants the public to buy its goods. By advertising these companies make the public interested in what they want to sell.

　　Each company pays advertisers to tell the public about its goods. Suppose a company has a new type of toy that it wants to sell. In an advertising office on Madison Avenue plans are made for telling the public about the toy. The advertising company takes beautiful pictures of children playing with the toy. The pictures appear in newspapers or magazines and also on TV.

1．What do you think Wall Street is famous for?

[　　]

A．Cars

B．Advertising companies

C．Oil

D．Stock market

2．Which of the following statements is Not true?

[　　]

A．Detroit is well known for its cars.

B．There is a big business of advertising in New York.

C．People consider New York as“big money”. ________

D．Madison Avenue is more famous for advertising companies rather than for any-thing else.

3．Which of the following is not a state but a city?

[　　]

4．Companies put advertisements in newspapers, magazines and also on TV because ________.

[　　]

A．they want to open their offices in Madison Avenue

B．the producers try to sell their cars or oil

C．it is necessary for them to cut down the cost of newspapers or magazines

D．advertisement helps to sell-goods

5．From this passage we can see ________.

[　　]

A．different companies sell different goods

B．people show no interest in what the companies want to sell

C．many different companies make and sell the same kinds of things

D．advertising offices make plans for telling the public about the goods only by taking pictures