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职称英语理工类考试:补全短文The Columbia accident

2012-10-31  来自于:课评集

  补全短文The Columbia accident

  The Columbia accident has revived the debate on whether the rewards of human space exploration are worth the risks No. I was a teacher when men first landed on the moon in 1969, and I remember how it moved my students and this country.__________(46) And we havent ventured outward since then. Thats 30 years too long! Americas human space-flight program is adrift, with no clear vision or goals beyond the completion of the International Space Station.

  I want NASA to establish a phased series of goals over the next 20 years, including human visits to asteroids that cross the Earths orbit, establishing a research and living facility for humans on the moon, and human expeditions to the surface of. Mars and its moons.__________(47)

  An astronaut is todays Christopher Columbus, who sailed into the unknown and discovered the Americas. The knowledge we gain from having actual people exploring can never be replaced by robots.__________(48) Robots are useful, but humans can do things that robots cant.

  The real obstacle we face in overcoming the drift in the nations human space-flight program is not technological and its not financial.__________(49)

  The lesson from the Columbia accident is not that humans dont belong in space. ______(50)

  A Instead, we should honor the memory of the lost astronauts by pushing our exploration of space future.

  B Astronauts are key to this expanded exploration.

  C Its the lack of commitment to get started.

  D Until then, we should stop risking peoples lives by sending them into space.

  E It is now more than 30 years since the last American left the surface of the moon and returned to Earth.

  F Our ability to send humans into space and have them return gives us amazing information about ourselves and our universe.

  答案:E B F C A

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