1. When was the news broadcast?
| A．On July, 16. | B．On July, 17. | C．On July, 15. |
| A．Excited. | B．Concerned. | C．Exhausted. |
| A．Wearing masks. |
| B．A French government “health pass”. |
| C．A recent negative test for COVID- 19. |
2 . On February 22, 2021, cancer survivor Hayley Areeneaux was selected to be one of four crew members of the SpaceX Inspiration4 — the world’s first civilian astronaut mission. The 29-year-old will make history as the youngest American — and the first with a false limb — to travel to space.
Hayley’s space dreams began two decades ago, however, the young girl’s dreams were derailed a year later when she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma — a type of bone cancer. Fortunately, the fatal disease had been caught early and the experts at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis were able to reduce its spread through chemotherapy. Arceneaux said she never thought she would be able to go to space. But when the call came “out of the blue” from Jared Isaacman, CEO and founder of Shift4 Payments, asking her if she would like to go to space, she said without hesitation, “Yes, yes, absolutely!”
Isaacman had always intended to go to space. Hence when SpaceX announced the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission, the 37-year-old billionaire, instantly booked the available four seats. The flying enthusiast announced that he would donate three seats to members of the general public. Hayley, the first crew member to be announced, will represent the pillar (支柱) of “hope” — a nod to her survival of cancer and frontline work as a physician at St. Jude. The remaining passengers, representing the pillars of “generosity” and “prosperity”, will be chosen randomly to raise $200 million for St. Jude, which treats children at no charge.
Before the mission launch later this year, the crew will undergo intense training. The mission, which will orbit Earth every 90 minutes, will be carefully monitored by SpaceX mission control scientists from Earth. Upon the mission’s completion, the Dragon will reenter Earth’s atmosphere for a soft water landing off the coast of Florida.
1. What does the underlined phrase “out of the blue” in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．Sadly. | B．Suddenly. |
| C．Randomly. | D．Strangely. |
| A．To promote his company’s products |
| B．To seek help for disabled children. |
| C．To inspire interests in space travel. |
| D．To raise funds for a cancer hospital. |
| A．Hayley Arceneaux Became The Youngest American travelling in Space |
| B．“The Sky Is Not Even The Limit” For Jared Isaacman |
| C．Cancer Survivor To Become The Youngest American In Space |
| D．Hayley’s Space Dreams Were Derailed By Osteosarcoma |
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1. What is the duty of a patient transport volunteer?
| A．Sending patients home. |
| B．Moving patients to clinics. |
| C．Delivering supplies for patients. |
| A．By sending an email. | B．By making a call. | C．By visiting in person. |
| A．The old people. | B．Medical workers. | C．The unemployed. |
5 . British artist Sacha Jafri has had an incredible year. In September, he set the record creating the world's largest painting. Last week, the painting was sold for $62 million, which Mr. Jafri will give to charity.
Mr. Jafri is a 44-year-old artist from England. Last year, as the coronavirus spread and many countries went into lockdown, Mr. Jafri was in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Rather than feeling stuck because he was unable to move on, Mr. Jafri decided to take on a huge project that could "make a really big difference". He decided to create the world's largest painting. And he wanted to do it in a way that would involve people from around the world. He asked children to send him pictures showing how they were feeling during the pandemic. He got artwork from kids in 140 different countries. Using the children's ideas as a starting point, Mr. Jafri began to paint.
The painting is massive --- over 17,000 square feet. Mr. Jafri planned to cut it up into smaller pieces when he was finished, so he could sell them for charity. It took him 7 months to create the painting. He worked long hours --- often up to 20 hours a day.
Mr. Jafri hoped that his painting, called "The Journey of Humanity", would help bring the world together during a difficult time. He tried to keep the ideas from the children's pictures in his mind. He even included the children's drawings in the artwork. When he finished last September, he had set a Guinness World Record for the world's largest painting. The painting was roughly the size of four basketball courts. Since Mr. Jafri's goal was to raise money to help children, the painting was split up into 70 large sections. Mr. Jafri hoped that by selling the sections separately, he could raise $30 million.
But when the auction (拍卖) ended on March 22, Mr. Jafri did much better than that. And he didn't have to split up the pieces. The whole artwork was sold for $62 million. That's the fourth highest price ever paid for a painting by a living artist.
1. What drove Mr. Jafri to work on such a huge project?| A．His talent for painting. | B．His craziness about fame. |
| C．His desire for wealth. | D．His enthusiasm for charity. |
| A．It reflected the ideas of the children. | B．It took him years to get it done. |
| C．It was purchased by different buyers. | D．It was sold at his expected price. |
| A．A Most Famous British Artist | B．A Guinness World Record |
| C．The World's Largest Painting | D．The Most Expensive Painting |
6 . What do Neil Armstrong, Ed White and today’s astronauts have in common? They all wear a white spacesuit. Beyond NASA, space programs in countries like Russia and China also use white suits. This basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn’t always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, used silver suits, but none of those astronauts actually explored the vacuum(真空)of space. And that’s the key because out there, spacesuits have to be highly reflective. And the best color for that isn’t silver, but white.
Here on Earth, our atmosphere protects us from 77% of the sun’s radiation. But astronauts in space don’t have that natural protection, making them easily hurt by extreme temperatures, severe sunburn, and even cancer-causing cell damage. So to prevent that, they wear white suits that reflect the sun’s harmful radiation.
But those white EVA suits aren’t the only garment in an astronaut’s closet. When heading into space or coming home, NASA astronauts wear a bright orange suit similar in color to the safety vests Air Force pilots wear, and it’s for similar reasons that loud orange stands out against the blue ocean and sky and is perfect for attracting attention.
That being said, times are changing. Nowadays we have more ways of finding out astronauts in need of rescue like GPS, so space agencies are now free to get creative with their color choices. NASA and other programs are already starting to use other colors like deep blue and mustard yellow. In the future, they could look a lot different because NASA is heading to Mars. It will be the longest crewed space mission(飞行任务)to date, taking as long as three years from start to finish, and during that time, astronauts could suffer from boredom or depression. That’s where colorful spacesuits could be useful.
1. What is the benefit of wearing white spacesuits?| A．Providing protection against sunlight. |
| B．Building team spirit among astronauts. |
| C．Avoiding damaging the vacuum of space. |
| D．Guarding astronauts from solar radiation |
| A．Astronauts in bright orange are easy to spot for rescue crews. |
| B．Astronauts have to prepare white EVA suits diverse in pattern. |
| C．Loud orange is the color of choice for dangerous space missions. |
| D．The safety vests Air Force pilots wear are popular with astronauts. |
| A．To set a new trend of spacesuits. |
| B．To brighten up the dull space life. |
| C．To show astronauts’ creative minds. |
| D．To meet the demand of space agencies. |
| A．Do Spacesuits Always Stay White? |
| B．How Do Spacesuits Protect Astronauts? |
| C．Do Colorful Spacesuits Have Advantages? |
| D．Why Is White So Popular with Astronauts? |
7 . On Sept 15, the night sky in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, lit up and the rumble of engines of a 70-meter-tall Falcon 9 rocket set off car alarms. Aboard that rocket was a group of four civilians in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft prepared to make history.
This is the first mission to Earth's orbit crewed entirely by tourists, or those not professionally trained as astronauts. For three days, the four civilians aboard the spacecraft traveled in orbit around Earth as part of the mission called Inspiration 4.The name of the mission itself is fitting.
Late last year, the mission leader Jared Isaacman, a billionaire tech entrepreneur, announced that he would like to fund a spaceflight that differed from other billionaire space journeys. His would be part of an effort to raise funds for St Jude Children's Hospital.
“He knew he would be using those seats to carry out his mission objective of inspiring humanity while raising money for children's cancer research, Scientific American wrote. In addition to Issacman, the crew included 29-year-old Hayley Arceneux, who is not only a childhood cancer survivor, but a current St.Jude physician assistant; Sian Pro-cotor, 51, a geologist（地质学家）and community college teacher; and Chris Sembroski, a 42-year-old lifelong space fan who got his seat through an online, raffle（抽奖活动）, CNN reported.
This particular Dragon spacecraft did not visit the International Space Station, but it did reach 590 kilometers above Earth.This is “higher than the current orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope-an altitude that humans haven't reached since the Hubble servicing missions during the space shuttle（航天飞机）program”.
While there is certainly a long way to go before SpaceX achieves its goal of ferrying civilians to Mars at an accessible price, this mission is definitely making its mark on space travel-all for a good cause. According to CNN, at a press briefing on Sept 14, Sembroski told reporters that joining the Inspiration 4 mission felt like “we're writing the rules, we're breaking a couple of them that NASA used to demand...We get to kind of do things our own way.”
1. What does the article tell us about Inspiration 4?| A．It aims to inspire people and raise funds for a hospital. |
| B．It aims to reach the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| C．It is crewed by both tourists and professional astronauts. |
| D．It's the first mission to take four people to Earth's orbit. |
| A．Its price | B．Its equipment. |
| C．Its carrying capacity. | D．Its highest flight altitude. |
| A．It is too restrictive. | B．It is demanding. | C．It is ground-breaking. | D．It is flexible. |
| A．To encourage civilians to travel to space. |
| B．To report on a significant journey to space. |
| C．To compare different space journeys in history. |
| D．To introduce the advantages of the Dragon spacecraft. |
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10 . I am a reporter and I feel privileged to have been a witness to history being made. Every time I watch taikonauts salute as the rocket carries them thunders away and flies toward the skies, my heart beats faster and my eyes begin to moisten.
When Yang Liwei, a former fighter jet pilot, displayed the flags of China and the United Nations together during the Shenzhou V mission in 2003 and wrote, “To make use of outer space peacefully and for the benefit of all humankind, the Chinese came to outer space.” He was remembered in the history of China as the person who fulfilled the nation’s l,000-year-old dream of “flying to the heavens”.
In the years that followed, I saw Zhai Zhigang floating out of his spacecraft and waving a Chinese flag among the stars; Jing Haipeng entering China’s first space lab; Wang Yaping demonstrating the beauty of physics to 60 million students far outside the Earth’s atmosphere; and Nie Haisheng creating the China’s record for the longest stay in space.
However, few people realize how taikonauts prepare themselves to be qualified. They need to study advanced mathematics, aerodynamics, astronomy, space science and technology, English, environmental science, medicine, psychology and many other theoretical courses, all in one year, a superhuman task equal to shortening a normal college student’s four-year study plan to 12 months.
Apart from theoretical study, taikonauts must undergo a large amount of physical training. In a pressure chamber, they go through a simulated ascent from ground level to an altitude of 5,000 meters in five minutes, with all the dizziness, sickness and even shock. While training for spacewalks in a weightless environment, they wear a suit weighing over 160 kilograms and stay underwater for four hours at a time, losing two kilograms or more in each period.
I have once interviewed Huang Weifen, who is in charge of taikonauts training. ''Without exceptional perseverance, they don't make it," she said. “Our space knows no boundary, and our exploration will never end.”
1. Which of the following is correct about Yang Liwei according to the passage?| A．He was remembered as the greatest taikonaut in China. |
| B．He thought space exploration could make the world peaceful. |
| C．He was the first taikonaut to realize China’s dream of flying to space. |
| D．He once floated out of spacecraft and displayed the flags of China and the UN. |
| A．12-month course study. |
| B．5000-meter climbing task. |
| C．Two-kilogram weight loss. |
| D．Four-hour underwater walk. |
| A．To comment on taikonauts’ achievements. |
| B．To introduce some extraordinary taikonauts. |
| C．To present the huge development of China’s space exploration. |
| D．To praise taikonauts’ commitment to China’s space exploration. |
