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.Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2?
A．Discovered B．Checked C．Watched D．Fixed
2. What can we infer(推断)from the passage?
A．Astronauts can never have a chance to eat fresh food when they live in space station.
B．The Soviet Union sent a total of 9 space stations into space in the 1970s and 1980s.
C．Astronauts could live in the Mir space station for no more than three weeks.
D．Space travel has quite a long history of more than 60 years.
3.What is the best title of this passage?
A．Exploring Space B．Space Travel C．Living in Space D．Space Stations
Martin had just finished high school. He would go to college at the far end of the city. He didn’t want to live there, and he didn’t want to take the bus either. So his father agreed to buy him a car.
His father spent all his summer teaching him how to drive, from the ABC to the XYZ. Thinking of the great feeling of driving a new car, Martin learned very quickly, and received his driver’s license just before his eighteenth birthday.
The second day, all the family, and their dog, went to a car shop. Martin spent almost all the morning going from one car to another. Finally he saw a red Blue Bird. He had a test drive on the open ground, and called out, “This is what I want, Dad!” When everything was done, they were ready to leave.
Martin climbed into the front seat. He said excitedly, “It’s my first day driving alone. Dad, Mom, and Poo! Enjoy it!”
His dad immediately took the back seat, right behind the new driver. Martin wondered why his father chose that seat, for his father always enjoyed looking in front.
So he said, smiling, “I’m sure you’re back there to have a change after all those weeks of sitting in the front seat teaching me how to drive.”
“No,” Dad replied, “Do you remember what you did to me all those years when I took you to and from school? I am sitting here to hit and kick the back of your seat all the way!”
1.Which of the following is NOT the reason why Martin’s father agreed to buy him a car?.
A．Martin would go to college and it was far from home.
B．Martin preferred living at home to living at college.
C．Martin didn’t want to take the public transport.
D．Martin was able to learn how to drive very quickly.
2.In which order did Martin do the following things?
a. He finished his high school. b. He test-drove driving the new car.
c. He got his driver’s license. d. He decided to buy the Blue Bird.
e. He kicked the front seat while his father was driving.
A．e—a—c—b—d B．a—c—b—d—e C．e—c—a—b—d D．a—c—d—b—e
3.How would the whole family probably feel on their way back home?
A．Angry B．Sad C．Cheerful D．Shocked
I have only seen my father cry once. It was at the Alton Train Station, back when the trains will ran. I was on my way to Philadelphia to 1 the train that would take me to Boston and the college. I was eager(热切的) to go. College, with its 2 and the promise of the better future had become more interesting. It 3 me to see tears in my father’s eyes as he shook my hand and said goodbye.
For eighteen years, we had never had a(n) 4 to say goodbye like this. He was taller than me, 5 I was not short. I was going somewhere, and he was seeing me off. He 6 me, but he had not needed to say before, and now his tears were 7 it.
The tears in my father’s eyes told me that we would have less and less to do with each other. I had taken my 8 from his, and now I was learning it. The train 9 and I boarded(登上) it. My father looked smaller from the train. We 10 goodbye to each other through the window. I was wearing the heavy winter coat that my father had bought for me to keep me from catching a cold in New England.
1. A．return B．catch C．design D．watch
2. A．habits B．license C．courses D．advertisements
3. A．shocked B．supposed C．helped D．encouraged
4. A．time B．luck C．chance D．interest
5. A．because B．though C．so D．and
6. A．taught B．beat C．forgot D．loved
7. A．saying B．knowing C．creating D．describing
8. A．money B．time C．present D．life
9. A．continued B．broke C．arrived D．left
10. A．reached B．waved C．talked D．cheered
---What did Jack ask you just now?
--He wanted to know how long ________ when I reached the cinema.
A．had the film been on B．the film had started
C．the film had lasted D．had the film ended
---I often chat with my friends on the Internet.
---You are so smart! Will you please tell me ________?
A．how to do B．how to do it C．how to use D．when can I use it
--- The woman ______ is reading the book over there is a volunteer?
---Yes. She is very kind. She’d like to ______sick kids in hospital.
A．which; look after B．what; look up C．whom; hand out D．who; cheer up
