Spaceship	Time	Astronaut	Event
Shenzhou V	2003.10.15 —10.16	Yang Liwei	China became the third country to succeed in sending up the manned spaceship into space.
Shenzhou VI	2005.10.12 —10.17	Fei Junlong  Nie Haisheng
Shenzhou VII	2008.9.25 —9.28	Zhai Zhigang Liu Boming Jing Haipeng	Three Chinese astronauts were sent into the space together. Zhai Zhigang went out of the spaceship and walked in space for the first time.
Shenzhou VIII	2011.11.1 —11.17	No astronaut	Shenzhou VIII connected itself to Tiangong I successfully.
Shenzhou IX	2012.6.16 —6.29	Jing Haipeng Liu Wang Liu Yang	Astronauts connected Shenzhou IX to Tiangong I successfully by controlling them by hand. Liu Yang became the first woman astronaut who came into the space in China.

 

根据表格内容，选择最佳答案。

1.______ country (countries) had sent their astronauts into space before China.

A．One             B．Two              C．Three            D．Four

2.______ was sent into the space twice among these astronauts.

A．Yang Liwei         B．Fei Junlong        C．Nie Haisheng       D．Jing Haipeng

3.______ walked in the space for the first time in China.

A．Yang Li Wei        B．Zhai Zhigang        C．Liu Boming        D．Liu Yang

4._______ has the same number of astronauts as Shenzhou IX.

A．Shenzhou V        B．Shenzhou VI        C．Shenzhou VII       D．Shenzhou VIII

5.Liu Yang ________ in China.

A．became the first woman astronaut who came into the space

B．is the first astronaut who came into the space

C．walked in the space for the first time

D．connected Shenzhou VIII to Tiangong I successfully

 

—I want to be an astronaut like Yang Liwei when I grow up.

—That sounds ____. I hope your dream can come true.

A．boring

B．relaxing

C．interesting

D．tiring

 

On October 31st, 2009, Chinese famous scientist Qian Xuesen, died in Beijing when he was 98 years old. He is famous as “the country’s father of space technology and king of rocketry”.
Qian was born in 1911 in Hangzhou. He left for the United States after winning a schol­arship to graduate school in 1936. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute{学院) of Technology and later at the California Institute of Technology.
Qian began his career in the US and was regarded as one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics{航空学) before returning to China in 1955.
After he returned, Qian set up the first missile (导弹) and rocket research institute of China. The institute later helped start Chinese space program. He led the development of China’s first nuclear-armed ballistic missile and worked on its first satellite.
He retired in the year before Chinese manned space program was launched in 1992. But his research formed the basis for the Long March CZ -2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.
In August, 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Qian and praised him for devoting his life to Chinese defense technologies. Qian told him, “I’m trying to live to be 100 years old”
【小题1】 Qian was regarded as __________ before returning to China.

A．A father of space technology

B．king of rocketry

C．one of the brightest minds in the new field of aeronautics

D．one of the best-known scientists

【小题2】When did Qian Xuesen retire?

A．In 1970

B．In 1991

C．In 1992

D．In 2009

【小题3】 What does the under­lined word mean in Chinese?

A．发奖品

B．批评

C．赞扬

D．鼓励

【小题4】 List the following things in correct orders. Which is the correct?
① left for the United States     ② won a scholarship to graduate school
③ returned to China from the United States
④ set up the first missile and rocket research institute of China
⑤ studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A．②①③④⑤

B．②①⑤③④.

C．⑤③④②①

D．⑤②①③④

【小题5】 Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Qian was born in 1936 in Hangzhou.

B．Qian began his career in China.

C．The Lρng March CZ-2Frocket carried YangLiwei into orbit in 2009.

D．Wen Jiabao visited QianXuesen in August 2009.

At 9 a.m. on October 15, 2003, our country launched (发射) its first manned (有人的) space-ship, Shenzhou V, into space at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province. It took Yang Liwei and his spaceship about 21 hours to circle the earth 14 times. Yang Liwei is China’s first astronaut. He comes from Liaoning Province, and he has been an air force pilot(飞行员) since 1983. He was chosen from 14 pilots after many difficult tests.

The life of an astronaut is hard to imagine for many people. To put on a space suit takes 15 minutes with the help of others. Sleeping in space is not easy, either. He has to sleep in a special sleeping bag on the wall because there is no gravity. Yang can eat chicken and rice. It’s especially made to eat in space but it doesn’t taste nice.

“I’m feeling very good in space, and it looks wonderful here,” said Yang, “I have looked at our beautiful earth and I have recorded all that I have seen here.”

China has become the third country in the world to send a person into space after the former Soviet Union(前苏联) and the United States. China is now planning its next launch. Shenzhou VI will be into space within(在……之内) the next years, it may take three astronauts. We are all proud of our motherland.

1.Shenzhou V was launched into space _____.

A．at 9 a.m. on October 15, 2003

B．at 9 p.m. on October 15, 2003

C．at 9 a.m. on October 16, 2003

D．at 9 p.m. on October 16, 2003

2.Yang Liwei is a(n) ______.

A．policeman

B．businessman

C．doctor

D．astronaut

3.Yang Liwei is from _______.

A．Liaoning

B．Gansu

C．Jining

D．Inner Mongolia

4.Which of the following is true?

A．It took Yang Liwei and his spaceship about 12 hours.

B．Life in space is easy for an astronaut.

C．China is planning its next launch now.

D．Yang Liwei is the first man into space.

5.We can know there are _____ countries in the world which can send man into space.

A．five

B．four

C．three

D．two