15届高三文科英语练习试题.pdf

Module 5 Book 8 Reading and Vocabulary (1) P58 I. Proofreading By the time the Challenger took off in 1986, the world seemed to have lost their fear and wonder at the amazed achievement of people going up into space. But this was going to be a special flight and so millions of people tuned in to witness the take-off on TV. A ordinary teacher, Christa McAuliffe, 37, who was married to two children, was to be the first civilian in space. She was going to give two fifteen-minute lesson from space. The first was to show the controls of the spacecraft and explained how gravity worked. The second was to describe the aims of the Challenger space programme. Christa hoped to communicate a sense of excitement and create newly interest in the space programme. Sadly, she never returned back to her classroom again, with the shuttle exploded just over a minute after taking off in Florida and all seven astronauts killed. II. Reading comprehension Read Part 1 and answer the questions. 1. Why does the writer call the passage Space: the Frontier? _______________________________________________________________. 2. P2 L7 That was until the arrival of the space shuttle– a spacecraft that could be used for several journeys. That refers to ____________________________________________________. 3. What was different about the space shuttle? _______________________________________________________________ 4. Why did people want to watch the Challenger take off? _______________________________________________________________ 5. What did the Challenger disaster teach the world? _______________________________________________________________ 6. Translate: Millions of people watched that first moon landing on television, their hearts in their mouths, aware of how difficult and dangerous and an adven