Question

【题目】 Set your clocks for 4:32 pm(eastern time)on May 27th, 2020. If everything goes as planned, a rocket will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

【1】 So what’s the big deal? The big deal is collection of firsts set to blast off on the 27th of May. The first humans carried aboard a rocket developed by a private company. The first humans aboard a reusable rocket.

Ever since the opening days of the space age, NASA has designed, built, and flown its very own rockets, and capsules. 【2】 The privately-held company Space X will be providing the big rocket boost(加湿器)needed to get NASA’s astronauts to the space, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Dragon crew capsule.

【3】 It is trying to make access to space cheaper, chiefly through the use of reusable rockets- once the payload is delivered into orbit, bring the rocket back down the Earth and polish it up for another ride.

In the meantime, NASA has spent the past decade in a highly bureaucratic version of hell. After the sad end of the space shuttle program in 2011, the American space agency was forced to rent seats on Russian made and Russian launched Soyuz rockets to get astronauts up to the International Space Station.

【4】 And now, if everything goes as planned on May 27th, we will make human access to space cheaper, more reliable, and absolutely easier. 【5】 Space tourism? Moon bases? I would say that the sky is limit, but the sky is just the start.

A.But this time, it’s different.

B.Rockets go off all the time from the Earth.

C.This made for great wounded national pride.

D.Most of the astronauts haven’t made it up into space.

E.Space X has spent the past decades working tirelessly.

F.NASA has been developing a new space launch system.

G.It’s impossible to say what kind of revolutions that might lead to.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】E

【4】C

【5】G

【解析】

本文属于说明文。美国东部时间2020年5月27日下午4:32，一枚火箭将从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角的肯尼迪航天中心发射升空。短文介绍了此次火箭发射的意义。

【1】

根据上文：把你的时钟定在2020年5月27日下午4:32吧。如果一切按计划进行，一枚火箭将从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角的肯尼迪航天中心发射升空。本空后面谈到:这有什么了不起呢？由此本空选B，表示:火箭一直都是从地球发射的呀。该句起到了承上启下的作用。故选B。

【2】

根据上文：从宇航时代开始，火箭和飞船都是由NASA设计建造和发射的。但这次不一样。下文提及是由私人公司发射的。故A选项“但这一次，情况有所不同”切题。故选A 。

【3】

根据上文:Space X公司将为美国国家航空航天局的宇航员提供所需的火箭助推器，搭载一枚顶部装有”龙”号太空舱的猎鹰9号火箭，本段应该接着谈Space X。本空的下一句是对本空的解释，说明他们的目的，故E选项“Space X在过去的几十年里不知疲倦地工作着”切题。故选E。

【4】

根据上文:2011年航天飞机项目结束后，美国航天局被迫租用俄罗斯制造和俄罗斯发射的Soyuz火箭的座位，将宇航员送上国际空间站。本空选C，与前一句是因果关系。故C选项“这件事使美国民族自尊心受到了很大的伤害”切题。故选C。

【5】

根据下文连续有两个反问进行举例:太空旅游？月球基地？选项承接下文。故G选项“很难说太空飞行会带来什么样的革命”切题。故选G。