【推荐1】Many people don’t know that junk has become a problem in outer space. According to BBC News, there are more than 22, 000 pieces of space junk floating around the earth. And some of     1     are just the things that we just can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes. Objects, like bits of old space rockets or satellites, move around the planet at very     2     /haɪ/ speeds. Therefore, even a very small piece can break important satellites or become dangerous to     3     (astronaut). To make things     4     (bad), when two objects in space crash, they break into many smaller pieces. For example, when a U.S. satellite hit     5     old Russian rocket in 2009, it broke into more than 2,000 pieces, increasing the amount of space junk. Many scientists are     6     /ˈɔ:lsəʊ/ suggesting different ways to clean up space junk. In England, scientists are testing a metal net that can be     7    （send） into space. The net catches the junk and then pulls it     8     the earth’s atmosphere to burn up. The Germans are building robots that can collect pieces of space junk and bring them back to Earth to be     9    （safe）destroyed. “The problem is becoming more challenging because we’re sending more objects into space to help people     10     /ju:s/ their mobile phones and computers.” says Marco Castronuovo, an Italian space researcher.

【推荐2】(A)Five hundred kilometers’ over Europe, Ship OM-45 moved north. In a room at the back of the ship. Kiah     1     (watch) the numbers on the computer in front of him.

“Time for dinner,” Rilla said.

The numbers changed     2     (quick) and Kiah’s eyes didn’t move. Rilla went across the room to     3    (he) table. She began to watch the numbers, too.

“What’s wrong     4     the satellite?” she asked. She was a beautiful girl, about twenty years old, with long black hair and big eyes.

“Nothing’s wrong with the satellite,”Kiah answered quietly. “It’s the AOL.” He began     5    (write) the numbers in the book on his table.

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At 9:00 am on 15th October, 2003, our country     1     （send）its first manned spaceship, Shenzhou V, into space at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.     2     took Yang Liwei and his spaceship about 21 hours to go around the earth 14 times. Yang Liwei is China’s     3     （one）astronaut. He comes from Liaoning Province and

    4     an air force pilot（飞行员） for many years.

The life of     5     astronaut is not easy. To put on a spacesuit takes him 15 minutes     6     the help of others.

    7     （sleep）in space is not easy, either. He has to sleep in a special sleeping bag on the wall     8     there is no gravity（重力）. “I’m feeling very good in space, and it looks wonderful here, ” said Yang,   “I have looked at our beautiful earth and recorded（记录）     9     I have seen there.”

China has become the third country in the world to send a person     10     space. We are all proud of our motherland.