1 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. advocate   B. commercially   C. diversify     D. analyst   E. projected     F. due G. accordingly   H. collective       I. sponsored       J. launches       K. contribute

Inspiration 4: Amateur astronauts set for orbital spaceflight

Four “amateur astronauts” are about to launch into orbit in another landmark mission for space tourism. It’s the latest flight to help open up access to space for paying customers, following on from       1     by Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.

The trip has been paid for by Us billionaire businessman Jared Isaac-man, who will travel with three crew-mates. A healthcare worker, a science educator and a data     2     will circle the Earth with Mr Isaac-man for three days.

They hope to inspire others with their adventure and to raise money for children’s cancer medicine. The mission has been named Inspiration 4     3    .

The crew’s Dragon vehicle, manufactured by Elon Musk’s company Space X, will ride atop a Falcon-9 rocket. It is     4     to launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 20:02 EDT on Wednesday (01:02 BST, Thursday), or very shortly after.

The mission follows hot on the heels of Sir Richard Branson’s flight aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane on 11 July, and fellow billionaire Jeff Bezo’s trip to space nine days later in the New Shepard vehicle.

Some commentators have voiced concern about the     5     impact on the Earth’s climate of spaceflights like this one.

Space X’s Falcon-9 rocket uses highly-refined kerosene(煤油)fuel which produces the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), along with nitrogen oxides, which also help     6     to warming. The emissions from rocket launches remain tiny compared with the aviation industry, though they are     7     to grow.

In the 60 years since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first went into space, fewer than 600 people have followed in his footsteps; and most of those have been military-trained personnel flying on government-     8     missions. Inspiration 4 is different. It’ll be a fully     9     purchased and operated orbital flight.

California-based Space X intends to sell many more orbital flights to interests beyond traditional space agencies. Nasa helped fund the development of a lot of the technology used by Elon Musk’s company, and did so to try to     10     the economy in low-Earth orbit. This approach is beginning to pay dividends(产生效益). Already, the Texas start-up Axiom Space has purchased four Dragon flights to take tourists to the ISS.

2 . 用suffer或suffer from的适当形式填空
1. They ________ a great loss in the earthquake.
2. They ________ all kinds of diseases in those years.

3 . 选词填空

assess, bound, cite, cycle，client，horizon，demand，reckon

1. The housing company asks all its ________to pay for a case in advance.
2. Both traveling and reading can broaden your ________.
3. He ________ that he was qualified for the job.
4. This is our ________of the damage to your car. It was ________at 1,000 yuan.
5. The ________always ________in the park as a form of exercise.
6. It is ________ that you should balance the relationship between supplies and ________.
7. Her essay begins with a ________ from Lu Xun. She also________ a few lines from Li Bai's poems.
8. According to the professors, the price of houses was ________to rise in the next few months.

4 . 根据句意，选择单词或短语并以其适当形式填空。

make sense / make sense of

1. Can you ________ what the foreigner said just now?
2. The sentence just doesn't ________, no matter how you read it.