1 . China has taken a whole new step in its moon exploration. President Xi Jinping on Dec. 17, 2020 congratulated the complete success of the Chang’e-5 mission(任务) that brings back the country’s first samples collected from the moon. Following America and Russia, China has become the third country in the world to collect rocks from the moon.

Chang’e-5 first took off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan on November 24, 2020. It landed on a massive lava plain (熔岩平原) of the moon on December 1, 2020. Then it started to collect the samples. The samples may help scientists understand more about the moon’s origins. It may help work out how the moon comes into being and how it develops. Hopefully, the success of the collection will set an example for other more difficult missions in the future which will be carried out on other planets.

After the returning capsule (太空舱) landed back on Earth, it will be taken to Beijing by plane, where the capsule will be opened and the samples will be ready for study. “China will also provide some of the samples to scientists in other countries”, said Pei Zhaoyu, a director at the CNSA.

As the Chang’e-5 mission has been completed successfully, Chinese scientists are already making plans for future moon exploration, including project to build a scientific research station on the moon. “We hope to work together with other countries to build the international lunar scientific research station, which could provide a shared platform for lunar scientific exploration and technological experiments,” Pei said.

1. The Chang’e-5 mission was to ________.

A．try a circle around the moon

B．help other countries to bring back the rocks

C．send congratulations to other countries from the moon

D．bring back the rocks from the moon to the Earth

2. The Chang’e-5 started to collect the samples ________ after it took off.

A．a month

B．about a week

C．twenty-four hours

D．twenty-three days

3. What does the word “origins” in Paragraph 2 mean in Chinese?

A．起源

B．未来

C．温度

D．地形

4. Which of the following is true?

A．Three countries have collected rocks from the moon since the 1970s.

B．China will build the international lunar scientific research station alone.

C．Some of the samples may be shared with other countries scientists.

D．The capsule will be sent to Hainan for further study.

5. The passage is mainly about ________.

A．the future plans to explore the moon

B．the place where Chang’e-5 landed or

C．the purpose of collecting samples from the moon

D．China’s success in completing the Chang’e-5 mission

3 . 假如现在是2050年，你们学校组织了一次去火星的旅行。在火星上你们到处参观，举行聚会，与外星人(alien)通电话……总之，你们玩得很愉快。

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4 . Do you hope to move to another city or a foreign country? It may be interesting. But how about moving to ______ planet? A US company now has a plan: sending people to Mars ______ 20 years.

To begin with, the company plans to send ______ people to go to Mars first. It will ______ them several months to get there. When they arrive, they will build a ______ first.

But Mars is not an easy place to ______. It's rocky, cold and has lots of sandstorms(沙尘暴). Also, there is ______ air for breath. So people would have to live in a special house. They would have to ______ special clothes if they go out.

People will have to find ______ resources(资源), iron, water and so on. All these could help people live there...

Sounds interesting? You might want to go to Mars now. ______ will things go well like the company hopes? We'll wait and see.

1.

A．the other

B．another

C．one more

D．other

2.

A．at

B．on

C．in

D．for

3.

A．few

B．a few

C．little

D．a little

4.

A．take

B．cost

C．spend

D．pay

5.

A．car

B．garden

C．house

D．bus stop

6.

A．dream of

B．stay in

C．climb up

D．live on

7.

A．no

B．some

C．many

D．much

8.

A．dress

B．wear

C．wear out

D．dress up

9.

A．alone

B．useful

C．latest

D．deep

10.

A．Because

B．When

C．But

D．So

5 . If you watch the sky for about an hour after the sun goes down, you may see some “moving stars”. But they’re not really stars. They’re man-made satellites. And the biggest of all is the International Space Station（ISS）. From May to July is the best season to watch the ISS flying over the earth. And people can see it with their eyes.

The ISS is the biggest satellite（人造卫星）and scientists want to live on it. They think that the best way to learn more about space is to live there.

When the space station is finished, it will be like a city in space. People will stay and study there with many of the things they have at home. Laboratories, living rooms and power stations are being built. The ISS is the most expensive space program. Billions of dollars are being spent on it every year.

Scientists hope that the ISS will be a stepping stone for future space exploration（探测）. “The ISS will help us understand the human body better, explore space and study the earth. It can help us make life on the earth better,” said Kathryn Clark, an ISS scientist.

Sixteen countries are part of the program: the US, Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and 11 European countries. China isn’t an ISS country, but it has helped with some of the experiments. In 2003, China sent some rice up to the ISS to find out what space would do to it.

1. The International Space Station _____________.

A．is really a big city in space	B．is the biggest man-made satellite
C．can only help us explore space	D．is mainly built by the USA and Russia

2. From the passage we know that _________.

A．building the ISS is only for scientists to live there

B．scientists can do anything they like there

C．people can see the Space Station at any time

D．sixteen countries are members of the space program

3. The phrase “a stepping stone” probably means “ _________”.

A．滑梯

B．巅峰

C．垫脚石

D．走廊

4. China sent some rice up to the ISS is probably to _________.

A．be used as astronauts’ food	B．sell it to aliens
C．do some science experiments	D．make it grow better in space

5. Which of the following isn’t mentioned in this passage?

A．China will join the ISS in the future.

B．The scientists are building living rooms for them in the ISS.

C．The ISS will be more useful in the future.

D．The ISS costs the members of 16 countries plenty of money every year.

6 . Have you ever dreamed of traveling in space? To travel in space, we first have to work out where our food will come from.

Today's space travellers don't go to the Moon or Mars. They go to the International Space Station（ISS）. There, the spacemen live for weeks to months.

If you visited the ISS years ago, nearly every kind of food you ate would have come from the Earth.

In 2014, scientists sent the ISS a space garden with some vegetable seeds（种子）. With water and some light, the vegetables in the garden grew. Those were the first foods being grown on the ISS. But the spacemen couldn't eat them and had to send them back to the Earth. The next year, after scientists made sure they were safe, the spacemen grew a second crop. This time the vegetables were ready for the spacemen to eat.

Gardening is different in space than it is on Earth. Without gravity, plants don't know which way is up. But they learn how to grow. They send their leaves in the direction of light and their roots into the soil.

The spacemen also have grown vegetables as well as flowers. It's important to know a plant can flower in space, because flowering is part of how some plants make fruit.

While the space garden is small for now, hopefully it could one day help provide people with food on long-time space trips.

1. Years ago, where did most of the food on the ISS come from?

A．The Mars.

B．The Earth.

C．The Moon.

D．The space garden.

2. Why didn't the spacemen eat the first vegetables from the space garden?

A．The vegetables didn't taste good.

B．The spacemen didn't like vegetables.

C．The vegetables might not be safe to eat.

D．The scientists wanted to eat the vegetables first.

3. What does the underlined word "them" in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．The spacemen.	B．The scientists.
C．The vegetables.	D．The water and light.

4. How do the plants in the space garden grow without gravity?

A．They stop growing.	B．They never grow up.
C．They grow in the direction of light.	D．They grow in the direction of the Earth.

5. The passage is mainly about ________ .

A．a dream to travel in space.	B．plants in the space garden.
C．a trip to the Moon and Mars.	D．vegetable seeds from the Earth.

7 . The International Space Station (ISS) is the biggest satellite because scientists want to live on it. They think that the best way to learn more about space is to live there. The space shuttle discovery has taken off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida several times and carried a few groups of astronauts to the International Space Station.

When the space station is finished, it will be like a city in space. People will stay and study there with many of the things they have at home. Labs, living rooms and power stations are being built. The ISS is the most expensive space program ever. Millions and millions of dollars are being spent on it every year.

Scientists hope that the ISS will be a stepping stone for future space exploration. " The ISS will help us better understand the human body, explore(know more about) space and study the earth. It can help us make life on the earth better, "said Kathryn Clark, an ISS scientist. Sixteen countries are in the program: The US, Russia, Canada,Japan, Brazil and 11 European countries. China is not an ISS country, but it helped with some of the experiments. In 2003, China sent some rice up to the ISS to find out what space would do to it.

If you watch the sky for about an hour after the sun goes down, you may see the moving ISS. After it's finished, more than 90 percent of the world's population will be able to see the space station. So keep looking up, and maybe you'll see it get bigger and brighter.

1. What do the scientists think is the best way to learn more about space?

A．To watch it every day.

B．To send the satellites.

C．To live in space.

D．To fly far into space.

2. It seems that ________.

A．we can probably see the ISS when the sun goes down

B．some scientists from China have been to the ISS in 2013

C．China is one of the members in the ISS group

D．the ISS is still in the space but has stopped working

3. What does the underlined phrase power stations mean in Chinese in Paragraph 2?

A．供应站

B．救济站

C．发电站

D．空间站

4. Why did the scientists send up the International Space Station (ISS)?

A．Because they would send up most of the earth people to live there.

B．Because they could talk with some Chinese school students.

C．Because they hoped to travel to Mars and Venus some day.

D．Because they wanted to live in space and do better research.

5. What's the best title of this passage?

A．The Space

B．The Space Ship

C．The Biggest Satellite

D．The Future Space Exploration

8 . Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.

Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to place in tin boxes.

At night, the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.

1. Shlander thinks the people and things on the earth are very ________.

A．strange

B．nice

C．different

D．beautiful

2. Shlander thinks man on the earth is ________.

A．a monkey

B．an earth monster

C．a tin box

D．a strange world

3. The earth monster doesn't have ________.

A．heads, arms and legs	B．brown or yellow strings on its head
C．a hole on its face	D．a wing on its body

4. The earth monsters don't put ________ on their holes.

A．nice things

B．balls

C．fire

D．water

5. The square window box is ________.

A．a car or a bus

B．a very small earth monster

C．a TV set

D．a radio

9 . The first astronauts(宇航员)

Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines_______at the sky. This is very different from the situation_______years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of _______   the universe. When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago,_______the firstastronauts were not people-they were animals. Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as _______as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test_______in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals_______first went into space. Many of them_______, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we _______forget these animals. Albert I was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died________   his space ship landed back on Earth.

1.

A．look

B．to look

C．looking

D．looked

2.

A．thousand

B．thousands

C．thousand of

D．thousands of

3.

A．explore

B．to explore

C．explored

D．exploring

4.

A．as

B．or

C．but

D．so

5.

A．safe

B．safer

C．safest

D．the safest

6.

A．they

B．them

C．their

D．theirs

7.

A．whom

B．what

C．that

D．whose

8.

A．die

B．died

C．have died

D．will die

9.

A．shouldn’t

B．may not

C．don’t have to

D．needn’t

10.

A．if

B．because

C．after

D．since

10 .

In 1997, a spaceship called Cassini was sent to explore Saturn (土星) and its moons. Now Cassini’s mission (使命) has come to an end. Scientists made it fall and burn up in 2017. But before that happened, the spaceship had made many trips between Saturn and its rings, sending photos and other information back to the Earth.
Cassini was a project carried out by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. It took Cassini about seven years to reach Saturn.
Scientists have learned many exciting things from Cassini. In 2005, Cassini sent a space probe (探测器) to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, so scientists could get a closer look at the moon’s surface. One of the most important discoveries Cassini made was that there is warm liquid water (液态水) under the ice that covers one of Saturn’s smaller moons, Enceladus. Scientists believe conditions on Enceladus could be similar to the conditions that led to the development of life on Earth.
Cassini’s mission was supposed to be ended in 2008, but because it was still in good shape, scientists increased its life to 2017. Cassini performed the last task of its mission on September 15, 2017.
When Cassini ran out of its fuel (燃料) and entered Saturn’s atmosphere (大气层), it burned up. Scientists said it was necessary for Cassini to be totally destroyed (毁坏) so there was no chance that microbes (微生物) from the Earth could be harmful to any possible life on Saturn.
1. What made scientists think that there might be life on Enceladus?

A．Animals’ waste was found.

B．They heard strange sounds.

C．Some ice was seen to cover it.

D．There is warm liquid water on it.

2. What might happen if Cassini wasn’t totally destroyed?

A．It might destroy Saturn’s surface.

B．It will fall onto the Earth.

C．The microbes from the Earth might be bad for Saturn’s possible life.

D．It will continue to send back information.

3. Which of the following things about Cassini is NOT mentioned?

A．Its findings.	B．Its lasting time.
C．Its burning.	D．Its later use.

4. What can be inferred from the passage?

A．Cassini was a very successful and useful spaceship.

B．Cassini has stayed in Saturn for ten years.

C．The project of exploring Saturn was carried out by America alone.

D．Enceladus is the biggest moon of Saturn.

5. What is the passage mainly about?

A．The process (过程) of sending Cassini to Saturn.

B．The moons and rings of Saturn.

C．The end of Cassini’s mission.

D．The life on Saturn.