题目内容
About 800 years ago, a Chinese man named Wang Hu made the world's first rocket, but unluckily he lost his life with it. It was not until April 24, 1970 that China sent its first satellite Dongfanghong-1to space successfully.
To celebrate the first big success for the country's space development, April 24 is now China's Space Day, which started this year. While celebrating, China also announced(宣布)new plans to make a space station and go to Mars and further space.
A space station is like a home for astronauts in space. Astronauts live and work on a space station and spaceships can even park there. China plans to finish building its space station in 2022.
According to China’s top space scientist Zhou Jianping, by that time, becoming an astronaut will be a normal job. Astronauts are needed more than ever before. They need to be able to finish more tasks. So far, China has been choosing astronauts mainly from pilots. In the future astronauts will also be picked from engineers, doctors and space technology experts.
Another plan is about Mars. In order to search Mars, China will send a probe(探测器)first to Mars around 2020. It will land there and even bring back things from the Mars.
It's such a big plan! Only by doing this can China say it has truly started the exploration of deep space. And the exploration will help us understand how the universe changes.
1.Who made the world's first rocket?
2.When is China’s Space Day?
3.What does China plan to do in 2022?
4.What will China do first to search the Mars?
5.What does the passage mainly tell us?
Around the World in Eighty Days
Phileas Fogg reads the newspaper, “A railway has opened in India. You can now travel around the world in 80 days.”
London to Suez(苏伊士) | rail and ship | 7 days |
Suez to Bombay(孟买) | ship | 13 days |
Bombay to Calcutta(加尔各答) | rail | 3 days |
Calcutta to Hong Kong | ship | 13 days |
Hong Kong to Yokohama(横滨) | ship | 6 days |
Yokohama to San Francisco | ship | 22 days |
San Francisco to New York | rail | 7 days |
New York to London | ship | 9 days |
Total | 80 days |
Fogg’s friends will give him $20,000 if he finishes the journey in 80 days. He must be back on 21 December.
Fogg gets to Bombay on time but finds that the new railway line is not finished! Fogg rides an elephant instead! A tribe(部落) is going to kill a woman. Fogg saves her. On the ship to Hong Kong, the police wrongly arrest Fogg. He gets away.
Fogg’s friend gets on the next boat without Fogg. Fogg finds him in a circus in Yokohama.
Fogg’s train is attacked on the way to New York. Fogg continues by sledge(雪橇), then train. He misses the ship to England. Fogg pays for another boat to England. The police arrest Fogg again but soon let him go. Fogg is now late.
However, Fogg has crossed the date line. He still has one more day! He wins the money.
Read again and fill in the blanks according to the passage.
I’m Phileas Fogg. One day I read in the n1. that a railway had opened in India and people could now travel around the world in 80 days. My friends bet (打赌) me $20,000 that I couldn’t travel around the world in 80 days. I must be back on 21 December if I wanted to win the money. I got to Bombay on time but f2. the rail way was not finished yet, so I rode an elephant i3. I was arrested by the police on the s4. to Hong Kong, but I got away. My train to New York was attacked so I m5. the ship to England. Then I was late and had to take a6. boat to England. I thought I was late and couldn’t get the money. H7., I had crossed the dead line and I still had one m8.day!