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阅读理解 　　HAVE you ever thought of being able to fly around the world in a few hours though it is about 40,000 kilometers?Now,maybe you can.Last Saturday,the American X-43A airplane made its first flight.It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers an hour.This makes it the fastest plane in the world.X-43A is only three to four meters long,but it's very heavy:it weighs 1,270 kilos. 　　HOW old can an insect be?400 million years!Last Wednesday,scientists found the world's oldest insect fossil(化石) in Britain.The fossil shows that the body of the insect was as big as a piece of rice and had wings(翅膀).In the past,people thought the earliest insect was 380 million years old. 　　THERE will be a new "star" in the sky soon.China plans to send a satellite(卫星) into space be September 2009.It will stay in space for one year.It will go around the moon and take pictures.It must be very expensive,right?That's for sure ?.4 billion yuan! 　　YUAN Longping,the father of hybrid rice(杂交水稻),won the World Food Prize on Monday.Yuan developed the world's first popular and widely grown hybrid rice.Hybrid rice plants can make more rice than the ones people grew before. (1) If the X-43A goes round the Earth,it will take about ________ hours to finish the trip. 　　A.3　　B.5　　C.8　　D.12 [　　] (2) The newly-found insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was ________ years older than believed. 　　A.10 million　　B.400 million　　C.20 million D.380 million [　　] (3) Which of the following about the new star is NOT true? 　　A.It will go into space by September 2008.　　B.It will stay in space for twelve months. 　　C.It costs a lot.D.It will go around the moon. [　　] (4) Yuan Longping won the World Food Prize because he ________. 　　A.is the father of his children 　　B.likes to eat hybrid rice 　　C.developed tile world's first popular and widely grown hybrid rice 　　D.grows more rice than others [　　] (5) The above paragraphs are taken from ________. 　　A.a story　　B.an advertisement 　　C.an explaining writing　　D.a newspaper [　　]

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答案：1．B ;2．C ;3．A ;4．C ;5．D ;