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　　参考答案：①American Neil Armstrong is the first man to set foot on the moon.

　　②Russian Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space.

　　③Yang Liwei is the first Chinese astronaut.

　　④Liu Yang is the first Chinese woman astronaut.

　　Ⅰ.Fast­reading

　　Skim the text and match each part with its main idea.

　　①Part 1　 A．The writer witnessed the exploration of the Challenger.

　　②Part 2　 B．Human exploring the universe.

　　答案：①～②　BA

　　Ⅱ.Careful­reading

　　Read the text carefully and choose the best answer.

　　1．Why were people NOT enthusiastic about the space travel programme after the first moon landing?

　　A．It was meaningless.

　　B．It used space shuttles.

　　C．It cost the USA a lot of money.

　　D．There were fewer space travelers.

　　2．Which of the following marked the beginning of a new space travel?

　　A．The Columbia's space travel.

　　B．The Viking 1's space travel.

　　C．The Apollo 11's space travel.

　　D．The Challenger's space travel.

　　3．From Part 2 in the text, we can infer that ________.

　　A．we have achieved great success in space travel

　　B．we still have a long way to go in space exploration

　　C．people are not interested in space travel

　　D．space travel should not include ordinary people

　　答案：1～3　CAB

　　Ⅲ.Study­reading

　　Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text.

　　1．All three astronauts made it safely back to Earth, using a spaceship computer that was much less powerful than the ones used by the average school students today.

　　[句式分析]　本句是一个复合句。主句是All three astronauts made it safely back to Earth; using a spaceship computer ...是现在分词短语作状语，a spaceship computer后面是that引导的定语从句，其中used by the average school students today是过去分词短语作定语，修饰the ones。

[尝试翻译]　三位宇航员安全返回地球，他们当年使用的宇宙飞船计算机远不及现在普通学生使用的计算机功能强大。