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5、科密特船长与紫色星球 Captain Comet AND THE Purple Planet 1 Spanner is bored It was a quiet morning at Stardust Space Station.Captain Stella was checking the space shuttle. Captain Comet was watering the plants and Spanner the robot was bored. 慍an I sit at the control desk?抙e asked. ‘All right,’said Captain Comet,態ut don ’t touch anything and don’t press that red button.’ Spanner sat down at the desk and looked at all the buttons. There were buttons to open all the space station doors and buttons to turn on all the lights. There was even a button to flush all the toilets! There was also a big red button,labelled慓ravityd’. Spanner was not sure what ‘Gravity’was. ‘I’ll press it very quickly,’said Spanner,憈o see what it does.d’ He pressed the red button. Captain Comet was watering the plants when he had a strange feeling. He was floating above the floor!The plant pots were all floating,too. He guessed what had happened. ‘Spanner!he shouted ,慖 told you not to touch that red button! ’ Spanner saw that gravity was what made things stay on the floor. There was no gravity in space,so the space station made its own.. Spanner pressed the red button to make the gravity come back on again-and all the pot plants fell to the floor. Comet fell to the floor beside them. ‘SPANNER!’Comet groaned. 2 It must be a plant Spanner was cleaning up the mess for the rest of the morning. When he turned the cleaner off,everyone heard a beeping noise.The noise was coming from the space scanner. Everyone stopped what they were doing and came to look. ‘The scanner has found something,’said Comet. He pointed to a flashing dot that was moving across the scanner screen. ‘I wonder what it is ?’said Captain Stella. ‘Is it an asteroid?’asked Spanner.慉n asteroid is a lump of rock that floats in space.t’ ‘I know that!’said Captain Comet.慉nyway ,ita’s too big to be an asteroid,’ ‘Then it mu