1 . Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, was just five when American astronauts stepped on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. However, he’s never forgotten the black-and-white footage from the historic moment. Since then, the moon has always been the center of his space dreams which are channeled through his spaceflight company, Blue Origin.

On May 9, 2019, at a meeting held in Washington, DC, Bezos came one step closer to achieving his dream of sending people there, when he presented a model of a lander, Blue Moon, designed to carry both humans and goods to the satellite.

Though details of how Blue Moon will be sent to space remain unclear, Bezos is confident it’ll be ready for its mission (使命) by 2024. He considers it unavoidable to settle in space given our ever-increasing population and fewer resources. Unlike those seeking a home on another planet, Bezos thinks humans will be living in orbital space settlements, which are similar to the International Space Station, except much bigger, each housing millions of people. Space taxis would make it easy for humans to travel between settlements.

But first we need to develop a cheaper way to travel between space and Earth. Bezos may have solved the problem partly by removing the biggest cost of spaceflights—single use rockets—with Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard rocket, which has made several trips to space and back since 2015.

To encourage future space dreamers, the company’s recently built a free online club that will keep members informed of its progress and challenge them to find solutions to help humans and save earth. It invites students of all ages to draw or write how they imagine humans living and working in space on a self-addressed, stamped postcard and send it to the “Club for the Future” by July 20, 2019. The first 10,000 postcards will be sent to space aboard the New Shepard rocket later this year. When it returns to Earth, the postcards, stamped “flown to space,” will be returned to their owners.

1. What does Paragraph 1 mainly talk about?

A．An impressive historic moment.

B．The beginning of Bezos’ space dream.

C．The exciting news of sending man to space.

D．Bezos’ secret of becoming the wealthiest person.

2. What will be orbital space settlements like in Bezos’ eyes?

A．Overpopulated.	B．Solar-powered.
C．Energy-hungry.	D．Conveniently accessible.

3. What may contribute greatly to the low cost of travelling to space?

A．Space taxis.	B．Single use rockets.
C．New Shepard rocket.	D．Orbital space settlements.

4. What’s the purpose of the free online club?

A．To help humans and save earth.

B．To challenge students of all ages.

C．To build a new way of sending postcards.

D．To encourage future space dreamers.

2 . Cloning has always been with us and is here to stay. It is a way of making     1     exact copy of another animal or plant. Cloning plants is straightforward while cloning animals is very complicated. The process of cloning is a difficult task     2    (undertake) Many attempts to clone mammals failed. But finally the determination and patience of the scientists paid     3     in 1996 with a breakthrough-the cloning of Dolly the sheep.

At first the fact     4     she seemed to develop normally was very encouraging. Then came the     5    (disturb) news that Dolly had become seriously ill, which made cloning scientists cast down. Meanwhile, Dolly’s appearance raised a storm of     6    (object) and had a great impact on the media and public imagination.     7    (apparent) it became controversial. Although at present human egg cells and embryos     8    (need)for cloning research are hard to obtain, newspapers wrote of evil leaders     9    (hope) to clone themselves to attain their ambitions. Religious leaders also raised moral questions. Some countries reformed their legal systems and     10    (forbid) research into human cloning, but others like China and the UK, continued to accumulate evidence of the abundant medical aid that cloning could provide.

3 . 假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

A robot used for housework was going to be tested out in a family. He looked like a tall and handsome man with smooth black hair, speak in a deep voice. Larry was going to be away from home, so he hired such a robot to accompany with his wife Claire. Claire didn’t like the idea at the beginning, and she agreed to it at last. At her first sight of Tony, Claire was alarming. When Tony offered to help her dress, Claire felt embarrassed. Gradual Tony began to win Claire’s trust. He helped Claire realize her dreams by making her home elegant, giving her a new haircut, changing the makeup she wears and giving her advice on her dresses. Therefore at the party all the guest who were invited were filled with admiration when they saw her house was completely transformed. At same time, Tony left a deep impression on all of them. After the test, the company was satisfied with Tony’s report because she had successfully made a woman regain her confident, although he shouldn’t have her fall in love with him.

4 . Chinese volunteers have completed a one-year test living in a simulated（模拟的）space lab in Beijing. The total length of the test, which started on May 10th last year, ____ 370 days, thus setting a new record for the ____ stay in a simulated space lab.

The space lab, called the Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace 1, measures around 150 square meters. It ____ four sleeping rooms, a bathroom, a waste-treatment room and a room for raising animals. The Yuegong-1 provides everything humans need to survive in an environment ____ to that of a space station in outer space. Oxygen, water and food are ____ within it.

A total of eight ____, all of whom are students at Beihang University, took turns ____ in the space lab. They were divided into ____ groups. On May 10, 2017, two men and two women ____ the Yuegong-1 for an initial （最初的）stay of 60 days. On July 9, they were ____ by another group of four, who stayed 200 days. The second group of students ____ on January 26, 2018, and the initial group ____ and spent 110 days inside it.

___, the volunteers were expected to stay in the Yuegong-1 for 365 days. But the project ended up ____ 370 days —from May 10 last year until May 15. The ____ five days were designed as a way to simulate a（n）____, in which the spaceship might experience a ____ in returning to earth.

The goal of the project “Yuegong 365” is to ____ the limits of humans’ ability to live in a ____ ecosystem for China’s manned moon landing ambition. The success of the project means that China goes one step closer to putting ____ on the moon.

1.

A．reached

B．devoted

C．wasted

D．saved

2.

A．happiest

B．busiest

C．longest

D．hardest

3.

A．displays

B．contains

C．discovers

D．uses

4.

A．strange

B．familiar

C．close

D．similar

5.

A．removed

B．combined

C．sold

D．recycled

6.

A．volunteers

B．engineers

C．athletes

D．reporters

7.

A．living

B．studying

C．training

D．communicating

8.

A．four

B．five

C．two

D．three

9.

A．passed

B．entered

C．chose

D．exchanged

10.

A．impressed

B．welcomed

C．challenged

D．replaced

11.

A．turned around

B．came up

C．turned up

D．came out

12.

A．graduated

B．escaped

C．returned

D．retired

13.

A．At the beginning

B．By the way

C．As a result

D．At the same time

14.

A．relaxing

B．practicing

C．lasting

D．settling

15.

A．different

B．extra

C．unforgettable

D．informal

16.

A．competition

B．emergency

C．performance

D．conflict

17.

A．delay

B．flood

C．debate

D．war

18.

A．appreciate

B．control

C．improve

D．test

19.

A．separated

B．modern

C．closed

D．convenient

20.

A．spaceships

B．people

C．labs

D．animals