1 . What Is Space Camp?

Space camp is a camp for kids (10-14) on Earth. It is a camp to get young people excited about space, science and maths. For a week, build and launch a model rocket and eat space food. They also get to meet an astronaut (宇航员). Not only that, they get to train like an astronaut, too. The campers find out how an astronaut’s spacesuit (航天服) and helmet (头盔) stop the astronaut from getting too hot or too cold in space.

Training for Moon Walking

There is an unusual chair at space camp — the gravity chair. It hangs from springs (弹簧). The chair helps the campers to feel what it is like to walk on the moon. The gravity on the moon is six times weaker than the gravity on Earth. When the campers are in the gravity chair, they find it hard to walk. There are three different ways they can move in it. They can bunny hop (兔子), or do a slow walk.

A Day in Space and Rocket Centre

One of the most exciting activities of space camp is visiting the space and rocket centre. The space and rocket centre has more than 1,500 things for campers to look at, such as small moon rock and the Saturn V rocket. A week at space camp is the best way to experience space life without even leaving the Earth!

1. How long can kids stay in this camp?

A．3 weeks.

B．6 months.

C．7 days.

D．150 hours.

2. Who may take part in this space camp?

A．Tom, aged 9, likes model rockets.

B．Amy, aged 11, is interested in space.

C．Susan, aged 13, enjoys delicious food.

D．Henry, aged 15, wants to fly a space plane.

3. What does “it” refer to (指的是) in paragraph 2?

A．The training.

B．The space camp.

C．The gravity chair.

D．The moon walking.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．Kids will wear spacesuits and helmets.	B．Kids may find it easy to walk in space.
C．Kids are able to buy small moon rocks.	D．Kids can walk fast in the gravity chair.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．A Trip to the Moon	B．A Trip to Space Camp
C．A Day in Space Camp	D．A Lesson in Space Camp

2 . Good News for Space Lovers

Do you dream of exploring space someday? You can now begin locally—just buy a ticket to the newly opened Shanghai Astronomy Museum. As the largest of its kind in the world, the museum makes a new space to lead visitors on a true-to-life tour around the universe. That sounds cool, doesn’t it?

Four Ordinary People Flew into Space

A group of four ordinary people (普通人) flew into space in the first space mission (任务) with no professional astronauts. The four remained in space, circling the Earth for three days. Though this was the first “all amateur (业余者)” flight, it’s clear that the members had a lot of knowledge and experience which was helpful. They had also had a quick astronaut training course.

Plane travel used to be very expensive, but now many people may afford it. It opens up space for ordinary tourists.

Robot Wolves Scare Away Bears

A town in Japan is using robot wolves to keep bears away. The robots, known as “Monster Wolves”, look like real wolves, only scarier. They’re meant to scare away unwanted wild animals. Since the town began using the robot wolves, there have been no bears.

1. What can you do in the Shanghai Astronomy Museum?

A．Have a dream of exploring space.

B．Experience a true-to-life space trip.

C．Learn to be an astronaut.

2. It took the four ordinary people          to remain in space and circle the Earth.

A．2 days

B．3 days

C．4 days

3. What do the people in a town of Japan use robot wolves for?

A．To keep the bears away.

B．To make people scared.

C．To keep real wolves away.

4. From the introduction of the second picture we learn that          .

A．they had a lot of experience	B．many people can afford space travel
C．they had no quick astronaut training courses.

5. All the news above has something to do with           .

A．space

B．nature

C．technology

3 . China has named the nation’s first Mars rover (火星车) Zhu Rong. For all of us, Zhu Rong is a well-suited name.

In an ancient Chinese story, Zhu Rong had the face of a man and the body of an animal. H rode on two dragons.

When he had a big fight with Gong Gong, the god of water, Zhu Rong won. But after the fight, the human world came into complete darkness. Then he brought fire from heaven to the world.

“Zhu Rong is regarded as the earliest god of fire in traditional Chinese culture,” a space official said. “The first Mars rover was named Zhu Rong. The name symbolizes light and hope for space exploration in our country, and means to guide humans to continue exploration.”

After leaving the earth last summer, Zhu Rong circled Mars for several months and landed on it in May. In recent years, our country has sent up the world’s first quantum satellite (量子卫星), and Chang’e-4 has made a soft landing on the moon. We have made great progress in space technology and will soon start building our own space station.

1. What Zhu Rong brought from heaven to the world was ________.

A．fire

B．wars

C．water

D．animals

2. For China’s space exploration, the name Zhu Rong symbolizes ________.

A．a big fight

B．complete darkness

C．light and hope

D．Chinese culture

3. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to “________”.

A．the earth

B．Mars

C．the moon

D．the sun

4. According to the passage, we can infer that ________.

A．Zhu Rong is a bad person in an ancient Chinese story

B．China has made great progress in space technology

C．the writer is proud of China’s space technology

D．the official doesn’t like the name Zhu Rong

4 . Many people know that rubbish is a big problem on the Earth. What many people don’t know is that rubbish is becoming a problem in outer space too. Years of space exploration (探索) have left tons of “space junk” (太空垃圾) around the planet.

According to the reports of BBC, there are more than 22,000 pieces of rubbish in space around the Earth. And these are just the objects that are easy to see. There may be millions of smaller pieces of rubbish that we can’t see.

The pieces of space junk move around the planet at very high speeds. They move so fast that even a very small piece can become dangerous. If they crashed (碰撞) into each other, it could cause explosions that might even hurt people on the Earth. If the tiniest piece of rubbish crashed into a space shuttle (航天飞机), it could blow open a hole as big as an elephant.

To help solve this problem, countries around the world have agreed to limit the time their space tools stay in space to 25 years. Each tool must fall safely into the Earth’s atmosphere, or upper parts of the sky. There, it will burn up, and it won’t crash near the Earth.

1. What is becoming a problem in outer space?

A．Unseen things.	B．Many big holes.
C．Too much space junk.	D．A lot of explosions.

2. Why can space junk be dangerous?

A．It may kill elephants.

B．It causes air pollution.

C．It moves faster than space shuttles.

D．It may cause explosions and hurt people.

3. What have the countries agreed to do with their space tools?

A．Burn them on the Earth.	B．Limit their time in space.
C．Let them crash in the sky.	D．Make them move slowly.

5 . The new coronavirus is the latest example of a disease that jumped from animals into humans. When infections do this they can be deadly — and COVID-19 is no exception.

Many viruses that jump into people, like MERS, seldom spread from person to person. They can still infect thousands, though; rabies (狂犬病) is mostly passed on by dog bites, but kills 60,000 people a year. Others, such as Ebola, can spread from person to person, but aren’t very good at it and so cause relatively small outbreaks. COVID-19, by contrast, appears quite good at spreading from person to person. While we don’t know how deadly it is, Chris Coleman, a professor at the University of Nottingham, the UK, says, “It’s not the most deadly coronavirus we’ve ever had.”

To trace the new virus’s origins, researchers have been comparing its genome to that of other coronaviruses. This showed that it possibly derives from a strain that infects bats. “It’s highly related to bat coronaviruses,” says Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami at the University of California, Los Angeles. This makes sense as bats are known to harbour many viruses, including coronaviruses. Viral infections are especially likely to spread among bats as they can fly long distances and roost close to each other. Bats also seem able to carry infections without getting ill, which helps spread the viruses.

The new coronavirus might have jumped from bats into another animal a few months or even a few decades ago, and then from that intermediate host into humans. We know that the coronavirus behind the SARS outbreak of 2002 to 2003 spread from bats into palm civets (狸猫) before infecting people.

Viruses that normally circulate among people can gradually become less lethal, as this helps them spread. “They don’t want you to drop dead within a day because you won’t pass it to anyone else,” says Chris Coleman.

Coleman thinks there is little we can do to stop people coming into contact with animals that may carry dangerous viruses. “It’s very difficult to control that,” he says. Instead, he says we need to have vaccines ready in advance. This could mean creating vaccines that are effective against a wide range of viruses or vaccines that require only minor tweaks to work against a new viral strain, much like annual flu vaccines.

1. What’s the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The intermediate host of viruses.	B．The mode of virus transmission.
C．The outbreak of the deadly COVID-19.	D．The serious consequence of COVID-19.

2. Why does the author mention SARS in the text?

A．To support an idea.	B．To study virus infections.
C．To trace the coronavirus’s origins.	D．To map the new virus’s genome.

3. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “lethal”?

A．Complicated.

B．Active.

C．Healthy.

D．Deadly.

4. According to Coleman, what do we need to do to fight against viruses?

A．Seek right medicine for each virus.	B．Develop widely applicable vaccines.
C．Get away from animals carrying viruses.	D．Prevent viruses spreading among people.

6 . 短文填空

The Chinese Spring Festival is    1     (一个全家团聚的特殊时刻). But     2    (2020年的春节不一样, 在此期间, 全家人都要待在家里). We could not go out to pay a visit to our relatives or     3    (去人多的地方).     4     (我们这样做是因为中国发生了新冠肺炎). To fight against the virus,    5     (我们必须待在家里, 家里更安全).

7 . 语法填空

Millions of Americans are mourning the death of astronaut John Glenn who passed away     1     (peaceful) on December 8,2016 at the age of 95. President Donald Trump said, “The US has lost a great pioneer in space travel.”

Glenn     2     (start) his flying career as a fighter pilot. In 1959 Glenn became one of the seven test pilots     3     (choose) to take part in the first space program of the US.

Glenn rose to fame in 1962 when he became the first American     4     (circle) the Earth in a spaceship. The journey made him     5     American hero. As a member of the Democratic Party, Glenn first won the election to the Senate (参议院) in 1974 and served for 24 years     6     January 3, 1999.

Glenn was known for his modesty, refusing to see     7     (he) as a hero. He preferred to focus on his work, saying, “The greatest people are those     8     devote themselves to something     9     (important) than merely their own self­interest.”

On October 29, 1998, when Glenn was 77, he returned to space and stayed there for nine days, thus     10     (set) the record of being the oldest person in space.

8 . China on Tuesday launched (发射) the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship, sending three astronauts to its space station combination for a five-month mission. The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:31 a. m. (Beijing Time), according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).

About 10 minutes after the launch, Shenzhou-16 separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit (轨道). The three astronauts are in good shape and the launch is a complete success, the CMSA declared.

The Shenzhou-16 astronauts will conduct a great many in-orbit tests and experiments in various fields as planned. They are expected to make high-level scientific achievements in the study of novel quantum phenomenon (新奇量子现象), high-precision space time-frequency systems and the origin of life.

Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao will see the dockings of the Tianzhou-5 cargo craft and the Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship, as well as the departures of the Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship and Tianzhou-5.

It is the first manned task for the application and development stage of China’s-space station, and the 29^th flight since the country’s manned space program was approved (批准). The launch also marks the 475^th flight of the Long March carrier rocket series.

1. Which of the following statement is true?

A．China launched the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship successfully.

B．Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship was atop Long March-1F carrier rocket.

C．Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship was launched from Xichang, southwest China.

D．Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship immediately got into its orbit after the successful launch.

2. What’s Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．The astronauts’ ability.	B．The astronauts’ interests.
C．The astronauts’ difficulty.	D．The astronauts’ tasks in orbit.

3. What does the author think of China space industry based on the last two paragraphs?

A．Old-fashioned.

B．Unimportant.

C．Amazing.

D．Disappointing.

4. In which part of a newspaper will you read the passage?

A．Heath.

B．Culture.

C．Science.

D．Entertainment.

9 . Instant Expert: Wonders of Space

Saturday 17th July, 10am - 5pm | Cavendish Conference Centre, London

Join us for a day of exploring the wonders of outer space with six leading scientists. You will start where everything began, at the Big Bang. Throughout the day, you will hear about everything from the exploration to find life on Mars to the discovery of liveable planets outside our solar system.

Who should attend?

Anyone interested in the mysteries of space, whatever your age or background. Whether you’re a scientist, a student or simply an attracted human being, our event offers the chance to learn directly from the experts at our one-day masterclass.

Benefits of attending:

·Open your mind and be inspired.

· Talk with like-minded people through informal set-up.

· Meet our six speakers and ask your burning questions.

What’s included in your ticket:

· In-depth and interesting talks from six leading scientists.

·Buffet lunch, plus morning and afternoon drinks and snacks.

· An Instant Expert certificate provided by event organizers.

Booking information:

We will email you your ticket immediately after purchase. Please remember to bring your ticket with you as you’ll need it to gain entry. We can scan (扫描) tickets from a printout, or off the screen of a phone.

A limited number of discounted early bird tickets priced at £129 will be offered, saving £20. These tickets can be bought by clicking the following green “Buy” button if still available.

1. Who is the event intended for?

A．Science students.	B．Space fans.
C．Leading scientists.	D．Research experts.

2. What can participants expect from the event?

A．Free meals throughout the day.	B．Certificates from famous schools.
C．Gatherings with event organizers.	D．Face-to-face meetings with scientists.

3. What should people do if they want to save money?

A．Buy tickets quickly.	B．Choose digital tickets.
C．Reserve tickets online.	D．Print tickets in advance.

10 . NASA made a small experiment to produce oxygen on Mars. Now it has managed to produce about 100 minutes’ worth of breathable oxygen. Now it has a plan to produce much more to support future human exploration.

The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) is a small oxygen- producing equipment that landed on the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover (探测器)in February 2021. Over the 7 hour-long production, MOXIE was able to produce about 15 minutes of oxygen per hour in a variety of difficult conditions. That added up to a total of 50 grams of oxygen ——about 100 minutes’ worth of breathable oxygen for a single astronaut.

“This is a great success,” says Michael Hecht at the Haystack Observatory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who co-leads the MOXIE experiment. Day or night, at different extreme temperatures and in the dust storm, Hecht says that MOXIE continued producing breathable oxygen. The NASA team is now looking to make a more powerful MOXIE, which will not only provide enough life support for an astronaut, but also enough oxygen for a return rocket to Earth.

MOXIE takes in carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and raises the temperature to 800℃ with its heaters. It then pulls out the oxygen atoms(原子) from the carbon dioxide. However, there will be some challenges in the next step. These challenges include being able to prevent the equipment from breaking due to its temperature. Besides, an oxygen device that can support a human needs to work continuously for about 400 days, and so far MOXIE’s work has only lasted for an hour each. “That’s a lot of hours to put on the hardware, regardless of what the technology is,” Hecht says.

However, MOXIE’s first year of success has been a big step forward in showing the technology’s bright future, says Hecht. NASA is now testing new hardware.

1. Over the 7 hour-long production, how much oxygen was produced by MOXIE?

A．50 grams.

B．15 grams.

C．100 grams.

D．7 grams.

2. What can we learn from Michael Hecht?

A．MOXIE went through some tough conditions on Mars.

B．It’s a big challenge for MOXIE to work at night.

C．All the astronauts were supported by MOXIE.

D．MOXIE has provided enough oxygen for a return rocket.

3. Why does MOXIE raise the temperature to 800 ℃ with its heaters?

A．To prevent itself from breaking.	B．To pull out the oxygen atoms.
C．To take in carbon dioxide.	D．To work continuously for about 400 days.

4. What would the text probably talk about next?

A．The technology’s future.	B．The new hardware.
C．MOXIE’s first success.	D．NASA’s next step.