题目内容
One will probably lose his way while wandering around the shopping mall, in spite of the signs ________ the way.
A. pointed B. pointing C. having pointed D. to be pointing
B
Lightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight. The 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunder. It was 11 p.m. The storm had moved directly over his two-story wood home in the rural town of Belchertown, Massachusetts. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping. Lubeck padded down the stairs barefoot and opened the door to the basement, and flames exploded out.
Lubeck fled back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom, but the phone didn’t work. Lubeck realized he was trapped. “I started panicking,” he says.
His daughter and young granddaughters, who lived with him, were away for the night. No one will even know I’m home, he thought. His house was three miles off the main road and so well hidden by pines that Lubeck knew calling for help would be fruitless.
Up a hill about a third of a mile away lived Lubeck’s closest neighbors, Jeremie Wentworth and his wife. Wentworth had been lying down, listening to the radio when it occurred to him that the sound was more like a smoke detector. He jumped out of bed, grabbed a cordless phone and a flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the noise.
He dialed 911. “Is anyone there?” he called out as he approached the house. Wentworth knew that Lubeck lived in the house.
Then he heard, “Help me! I’m trapped!” coming from the balcony off Lubeck’s bedroom.
“I ran in and yelled,‘Don, where are you?’ Then I had to run outside to catch my breath.”
After one more attempt inside the house, he gave up and circled around back. But there was no way to get to him. “I shined the flashlight into the woods next to an old shed and noticed a ladder,” says Wentworth. He dragged it over to the balcony and pulled Lubeck down just as the second floor of the house collapsed.
Wentworth and Lubeck don’t run into each other regularly, but Lubeck now knows that if he ever needs help, Wentworth will be there.
Lubeck still chokes up when he tells the story. “I was alone,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Jeremie.”
【小题1】According to the text, Lubeck___________.
| A.stayed calm in the fire | B.couldn’t find a safe way out |
| C.lived on the first floor | D.called for help in the fire |
| A.He called 911. |
| B.He went upstairs and took Lubeck out. |
| C.He put out the fire. |
| D.He used a ladder and pulled Lubeck down. |
| A.He was living in his wood home alone that night. |
| B.The storm was too heavy and the fire was too fierce. |
| C.He lived far from the main road and was surrounded by pines. |
| D.He was too frightened to escape from the danger. |
| A.A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin. |
| B.A good way to get a narrow escape. |
| C.God helps those who help themselves. |
| D.Blood is thicker than water. |
Beijing ?(13, July) China sent up a new data relays atellite (数据中继卫星), Tianlian I -02, on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in South-western Sichuan province.The new satellite will promote the country's satellite communication network for space docking (对接).
The satellite was launched on a Long-March-SC carrier rocket at 11:41 p.m., sources at the centre told Xinhua News Agency.The satellite separated from the rocket 26 minutes after its launch and was then successfully delivered into a geostationary transfer orbit (地球同步转移轨道).
Developed by the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the satellite is the country's second data relay satellite.The first, Tianlian I -01, was launched on April 25.2008.
The two satellites will form a network to improve communications between China's spacecraft and bases on Earth, according to the centre.They will also be used to help the nation's first space docking, scheduled for the second half of this year.
As planned, China will launch space module Tiangong-I (天宫1号), which was designed as a platform that will dock with an unmanned spaceship, Shenzhou, for the county's first space-docking mission this year.
Two more Shenzhou spaceships will dock with Tiangong-I next year, and one will be manned by two or three astronauts, according to China Manned Space Engineering Office, which was the main user of the Tianlian I series data relay satellites.
"The new satellite can cover a greater area to track and command the country's space vehicles m low-Earth orbits, such as manned spacecraft and remote sensing satellites, from a higher position m outer space.Only three satellites of this kind are needed to form a global communication network, and China has two now." Pang Zhihao, a researcher and deputy editor-in-chief of Space International, said.
The satellite could also equip astronauts with real-time communications, which will benefit the county s future manned space flights, he said.
【小题1】What is the main purpose to send up Tianlian I -02 ?
| A.To test the function of a Long-March-SC carrier rocket. |
| B.To carry some astronauts into space to do some research. |
| C.To send more information and clearer pictures to mobile phones on the earth. |
| D.To promote the country's satellite communication network for space docking' |
| A.one more such satellite is needed to form a global communication network |
| B.the satellite was developed by China Manned Space Engineering Office |
| C.it was less than three years since China launched its first date relay satellite of this kind |
| D.the satellite could help track and command space vehicles in orbits because it's lower in position |
| A.Shenzhou Ⅷ is a manned spaceship. |
| B.Tiangong- I will dock with three Shenzhou spaceships next year. |
| C.the satellite is of great importance to China's space exploration. |
| D.china’s first ^a06 docking will be done in the second half of next year. |
| A.China Launched a New Space Shuttle |
| B.China's Plan for Space Exploration |
| C.China’s Progress m China's Space Exploration |
| D.New Satellite Helps China's Space Exploration |