These are two () issues, but people often take them as one.A、ruinB、nestC、distinctD、cas
These are two () issues, but people often take them as one.
A、ruin
B、nest
C、distinct
D、castle
C
These are two () issues, but people often take them as one.
A、ruin
B、nest
C、distinct
D、castle
C
第1题
The number of crew on the ISS has been limited to three by the capacity of the Russian Soyuz capsules that would return them to Earth in an emergency. But running the ISS requires the full-time attention of more than two crew members, leaving just half the time of one of the crew free for research. This is woefully inadequate, and a NASA-commissioned report concluded in July that no meaningful research is possible with a three-person crew.
NASA originally planned to replace the Soyuz rescue capsule with a seven-person "crew return vehicle", which would have allowed the ISS to carry a significantly larger permanent crew. But faced with a $ 5 billion budget overrun, the agency cancelled the project last year.
Then last month NASA announced plans for an orbital spaceplane as a successor to the ageing fleet of space shuttles. This could double as a rescue vehicle for at least six people, but it will not be ready until 2010.
Waiting for the spaceplane could be a big problem as Soyuz capsules have only a six-month lifespan and the Russian agreement to supply them expires in 2006. This could leave a four-year gap with no guaranteed rescue vehicle for the ISS, and hence no crew. Russia has already warned that cash shortages could force it to stop making the capsules.
If the cash can be raised, however, the new plan is to permanently station two Soyuz capsules at the ISS, raising the rescue capacity to six. The ISS's Russian-built modules have three ports where Soyuz can dock, one of which is usually used for uncrewed cargo modules.
The first paragraph of the passage suggests that ______.
A.a crew of six is ideal for ISS
B.now crew at the ISS don't have adequate equipment to do research
C.at present crew at the ISS do very little scientific research
D.the ISS headquarters moved to Japan last week
第2题
The biggest problem from now to the year 2010 for the ISS lies in that ______.
A.Soyuz capsules are not safe enough
B.the ISS will have a 4-year crewless gap
C.more money is needed to maintain the normal operation
D.the ISS partner nations can't reach agreement during this period
第4题
Part B
Directions :
Read the following text careully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese .Write your translation clearly on ANSWER SHEET2.
Neither the Americans nor the Russians have the resources to continue human space flight on their own ;both sides know they need each other. 61)1t's much easier and cheaper to get used to each other and to blend differing operating styles, languages, and systems on the aged Mir(a Russian word for " peace" ) than trying to do that while jointly building a new space station. NASA , in fact ,calls its program of shuttle flights to Mir Phase l of the International Space Station(ISS).Phase 2 marks the beginning of actual construction. The procedures used to dock the shuttle to Mir,
for example ,also will be used as a lifeboat for the ISS. And Progress freighters ,like the one that crashed into Mir in June ,will haul cargo to the ISS. 62)One unintended benefit of Mir's technical troubles is that they have actually forced the two nations to work much more ore closely together than they had planned.
Except for a brief period in the 1970s with Skylab ,NASA has never operated a space station ;the Russians have been running them for years. Astronauts have long been trained intensively to per-form. specific tasks on shuttle flights lasting 18 days or less.63)Russian astronauts, however, learnmore general skills, since they spend many months in orbit and no one can forecast all the problems they might encounter. As a result of shuttle-Mir experience, NASA is revising astronaut training to include more of the general skills they will need on the ISS.
NASA decided to send astronauts to Mir based on its long record of safe operation. But this year ,crews aboard Mir have faced two of the most serious emergencies in the history of human space flight. 64)In February ,an oxygen generator caught fire ,shooting out 4-foot-long jets of flame like; fire extinguishers were bolted in place ,delaying reaction to the fire. In June ,a Progress Freight- er collided with the Spektr module ,puncturing it. Spektr had to be sealed off to prevent all the air from leaking from the spacecraft. 65) The ancient computer that controls Mir has failed many times ,causing most other systems ,including the one that keeps the station's solar panels pointed at the sun, to shut down. One failure in August occurred while a Progress was docking. Last week ,the computer crashed again ,the carbon dioxide removal system shut down ,and a mysterious brown flu-id-probably rocket fuel - appeared to leak from the station.
61_________
第5题
We can not accept your complaint of poor quality, ( ) you provide thecertificate of inspection issued by CIQ.
A. why B. unless C. otherwise D. however
第6题
Over a million people were warned not___________
A.to track hurricanes and issue warnings
B.to avoid confusion
C.to stay at home
D.to be given to tropical storms
E.to make predictions
F.to kill at least 15 people
第7题
A.身材<-2SD,生长速度小于25百分位
B.青春发育期:Tannerstage2、3
C.ISS青春期开始时预测成年身高<-2SDS
D.具有残余生长潜能:11.5
E.以上均错误
第8题
A. a lot of money
B. national people
C. morning
D. local people
E. national issues
F. local issues
British people have the habit of reading newspapers in the______.
第9题
why does the professor say this:
A.To show how major parties usually deal with the same issues
B.To suggest that both parties should give education more attention
C.To contrast the philosophy and methods of opposing parties
D.To point out which party is more concerned with education
第10题
Oases in Space
Earlier space stations
The International Space Station (ISS) is the most complicated international scientific project ever undertaken. First proposed in 1984, it involved the effort of sixteen nations: the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia, eleven nations of the European Space Agency, and Brazil. The first component of the ISS, Zahra ("sunshine" in Russian), was launched into orbit in 1998. A few weeks later, the crew of a U.S. space shuttle brought the second piece, Unity, and connected the two. The launch of the third major component, the Russian Avezda ("star"), was postponed by financial problems until July 2000, and the station's first crew arrived in November. Eventually, the ISS will contain more than 100 parts and will require forty-four spaceflights to deliver them. A total of 160 spacewalks will be needed to assemble the components. The ISS was originally scheduled to be completed in 2006, although unexpected events such as the Columbia space shuttle tragedy of 2003 may delay the date. When work is finished, the station will house a full-time crew of seven astronauts and scientists and contain six scientific laboratories. With an anticipated lifetime of 10 years after completion, the ISS is not only the most complicated scientific project ever undertaken but also, at a projected cost of $ 35 billion, one of the most expensive.
The ISS is not the first space station~ That distinction belongs to the Soviet Union's Salyut 1. Salyut 1 was sent into orbit in 1971 but suffered setbacks. The first crew to arrive was unable to get in: There was something wrong with the hatch(舱口)! The second crew, equipped with special tools, got in and spent 24 days there. However, on the way back to Earth, a tragedy occurred. A valve(气阀)had opened by mistake and let all the air out of the capsule, and the three cosmonauts, who were not wearing space suits, died during the descent. In all, there were six successful Salyut stations. The first -- and only American space station, Skylab, was launched in 1973. To save money, the Americans used the third stage of a Saturn V booster rocket left over from the Apollo moon missions, and so Skylab was much roomier than the Soviet stations. Three crews spent time on Skylab, but the station had to be abandoned in 1975 because there was simply no way to get to it. The United States had used up its Apollo rockets and the first space shuttle wouldn't be launched until 1981. Eventually, Skylab's orbit decayed, and the station fell to Earth in 1979. At the time, some people feared that the debris(碎片)might land in an inhabited area, and a few people even built "Skylab shelters.' However, there was no reason to panic; Skylab burned up harmlessly over Australia. In 1986, the Soviet Union launched another station, Mir ("peace"). Although damaged by an on-board fire and a collision with a supply rocket, Mir stayed in orbit for 15 years, and both U.S. and Russian crewmen, who would later serve on the ISS, trained on Mir.
New designs for space stations
The ISS and earlier space stations are a far cry from the space stations described by science fiction writers and dreamers, and even by scientists earlier in the century. After World War Ⅱ, many German rocket scientists who had worked on weapons programs immigrated to the United States and the Soviet Union. Werner yon Braun, the most famous of these scientists, played a vital role in the early days of the U.S. space program. It was Von Braun who decided that a large space station was essential to the exploration of space, a first step that would provide a stopping place on the way to the moon and the planets. In the March 1952 edition of Collier's Magazine, Von Braun contributed an article about the proposed station and introduced the idea of a wheel-shaped design. Illustrated by the artist Charles Bonestell, this issue popularized the "spinning wheel" or "donut in the sky" d
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B.N
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第11题
Which of the following best describes the development of the passage?
A.Introducing the issue→describing the actual status→citing ways to deal with the issue →offering reasons.
B.Describing the actual status→introducing the issue→citing ways to deal with the issue →offering reasons.
C.Introducing the issue→citing ways to deal with the issue→describing the actual status→offering reasons.
D.Describing the actual status→offering reasons→introducing the issue→citing ways to deal with the issue.