科目:高中英语 来源:2012届浙江省台州中学高三上学期期中考试英语试卷 题型:阅读理解
NASA’s twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been exploring the Red Planet since 2004. But a little more than a year ago, NASA lost contact with Spirit. The space agency has tried several ways to make contact with the rover, but Spirit has not sent back any signals.
Spirit landed on Mars on January 4, 2004. Three weeks later, Opportunity arrived. Soon after, the rovers went to the opposite side of Mars. Spirit’s original mission was only designed to last for three months, but Spirit has worked for more than five years doing additional missions. Both rovers have made important discoveries about ancient Mars. They have taken thousands of images and found evidence in the rocks of a water, warmer past in Mars’ history.
Spirit is solar-powered. It got stuck in a sand trap in April 2009, trapped deep into the soil and with its wheels turning around and around but not able to move forwards or backwards. Spirit had to agree that there is nothing that can be done to change the situation—it’s never going to move again. However, even if it is a not moving station, it can still study the planet’s atmosphere and deep interior.
NASA has been concentrating on trying to position its solar panels to get as much energy from the sun as possible, or to get the rover leaning in a manner that will allow the most amount of sunlight falling on its solar panels, in order to keep it alive during the coming winter months. Engineers have planned to rock the vehicle back and forth to acquire a more favorable position. However, no matter how many efforts have been made, Spirit still could not get out of the soft soil and could not lean itself toward the sun as the Martian winter approached. Without enough energy reaching its solar panels and with so little energy in its batteries, it went into hibernation, just like a polar bear, and has not communicated with Earth since March 22, 2010.
Whatever the future holds for Spirit, its mission has been an outstanding success. When it landed on the Red Planet in January 2004, no one was really sure how long it would continue working in the cold and dusty environment. As a matter of fact, three months was its original goal.
After so many fruitless efforts, NASA scientists are losing hope of ever reconnecting with Spirit, but they will give it one more try. Ground controllers are contacting Spirit over a range of frequencies and at different times during the day in case its internal clock stopped working and it lost track of time. They also are commanding the rover to turn on its backup radio transmitter in case the main one is dead.
If this final effort to connect isn’t successful, NASA will shift the focus to its twin robot, Opportunity, which is in a different part of Mars. Opportunity is still on the move and continues to travel freely to this day. It has traveled 16.6 miles so far, and is currently rolling towards another crater it has yet to explore.
NASA has spent more than $900 million on the project but shows no sign of giving up on these determined and hard-working robots. The rovers are, though, experiencing gradual wear and tear, the expected damage to something caused by using it repeatedly over a period of time. Even before Spirit got trapped, one of its wheels had failed. And NASA says it’s just a matter of time before both robots break down completely.
【小题1】According to the passage, what can we know about Spirit?
A.It had explored Mars several times. |
B.Its original mission was to work for five years. |
C.It landed on Mars three weeks later than Opportunity. |
D. It discovered that Mars was once a warm and wetter place. |
A.Try to lean Spirit to make it get as much sunlight as possible. |
B.Rock Spirit back and forth to make it acquire a more favorable position. |
C.Make efforts to help Spirit get out of the soft soil where it is stuck. |
D.Contact and order Spirit to turn on its backup radio transmitter. |
A.it didn’t have enough energy | B.it had finished its task |
C.something was wrong with its wheels | D.it met an unidentified creature |
A.NASA will move the center of Spirit out of the sand |
B.NASA will depend on Opportunity to do the exploration |
C.NASA will do nothing but wait for some opportunity |
D.NASA will make opportunity help Spirit |
A.NASA has planned to spend more money on Spirit |
B.Spirit will be brought back to Earth |
C.Spirit will stop operating totally in the future |
D.Spirit will cause damage to Mars |
A.NASA makes the last effort to contact Spirit. |
B.Spirit has made many important discoveries on Mars. |
C.How Spirit got stuck and couldn’t move on Mars. |
D.Why NASA tried many ways to contact Spirit. |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011学年吉林省长春十一中高一下学期期末考试英语卷 题型:写作题
假如你是某所中学的一名学生,3月22日(世界水日)你参加了你们班开展的一系列节水宣传活动。请根据以下提示,以日记的形式记录当天的活动内容.
1)上午开班会,讨论节水宣传活动;
2)下午2点,去社区发宣传材料(leaflets);
3)下午3点,邀来的专家在社区做相关演讲;
4)演讲后,与邻居们讨论,提出节水建议.
注意:① 词数100左右。开头已为你写好,不计入总词数。
② 可适当增加内容以使行文连贯.
March 22, 2011 Tuesday Sunny
Today is World Water Day._________________________________________
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科目:高中英语 来源:2011届北京市四中高三上学期期中考试英语卷 题型:写作题
假设你是某所中学的学生,3月22日(世界水日)你参加了你班开展的一系列节水宣传活动。请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序,以日记的形式记录当天的活动内容。
注意:词数不少于60。
提示词:宣传材料leaflets; 危机 crisis
March 22,2010 Monday Sunny
Today is World Water Day.
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
(请将情景作文写在答题卡指定区域内)
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科目:高中英语 来源:2014届云南德宏州芒市高二下学期期中考试英语卷(解析版) 题型:完型填空
Water and its importance to human life were the centre of the world’s attention last week. March 22 was World Water Day and 36 the theme “Water for Life”.
There are more than one billion people in the world who live without 37 drinking water. The United Nations 38 to cut this number in half by 2015.
Solving such a big problem seems like a(n) 39 challenge. But everyone, 40 teenagers, can do something to help. A teenage girl in the US has set an example to the 41 of her age around the world.
Rene Haggerty, 13, was awarded the 2004 Gloria Barron Prize for her work— 42 discarded(废弃的) batteries(电池)which pollute water.
In 2003, Haggerty went on a field trip to the Great Lakes Science Centre in Ohio. There she saw an exhibit about how 43 in old batteries harm the water of Lake Erie.
Haggerty learnt that 44 the batteries was an easy solution. “I think everybody can do it, because everyone 45 batteries, and it can make a big difference.” With these words, she began to 46 awareness in her area.
She 47 her county government and school board. She got permission to start a recycling programme in schools 48 the public library, hospital, and churches. With help from her family, friends and local waste-management 49 , she gathered containers, arranged transportation, and made a(n) 50 video.
Over the past two years, she collected four tons of batteries and drew the attention of officials, who were in charge of a battery recycling programme but had made 51 progress.
When asked 52 she feels like a hero, Haggerty is quite ____53 . “Not really. Well, maybe for the fish I saved!”
Every year the Gloria Barron Prize 54 young Americans aged 8 to 18 who have shown leadership and courage in 55 the public and the planet. Each year ten winners receive US $ 2,000 each, to help with their education costs or their public service work.
1. A.had B.gave C.wrote D.discussed
2. A.enough B.safe C.much D.polluted
3. A.asks B.orders C.hopes D.ensures
4. A.good B.strong C.important D.unreal
5. A.especially B.sometimes C.even D.seldom
6. A.boys B.others C.students D.grown-ups
7. A.collecting B.selling C.buying D.using
8. A.things B.chemicals C.water D.air
9. A.making B.recycling C.reducing D.handling
10. A.uses B.has C.throws D.needs
11. A.tell B.increase C.spread D.inform
12. A.talked to B.listened to C.heard from D.thought about
13. A.and B.beside C.as well as D.as good as
14. A.officials B.workers C.clerks D.experts
15. A.industrial B.agricultural C.scientific D.educational
16. A.much B.no C.some D.little
17. A.if B.how C.when D.why
18. A.proud B.glad C.modest D.worried
19. A.praises B.helps C.supports D.honors
20. A.awarding B.saving C.serving D.favoring
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科目:高中英语 来源:2011-2012学年浙江省高三上学期期中考试英语试题 题型:阅读理解
NASA’s twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been exploring the Red Planet since 2004. But a little more than a year ago, NASA lost contact with Spirit. The space agency has tried several ways to make contact with the rover, but Spirit has not sent back any signals.
Spirit landed on Mars on January 4, 2004. Three weeks later, Opportunity arrived. Soon after, the rovers went to the opposite side of Mars. Spirit’s original mission was only designed to last for three months, but Spirit has worked for more than five years doing additional missions. Both rovers have made important discoveries about ancient Mars. They have taken thousands of images and found evidence in the rocks of a water, warmer past in Mars’ history.
Spirit is solar-powered. It got stuck in a sand trap in April 2009, trapped deep into the soil and with its wheels turning around and around but not able to move forwards or backwards. Spirit had to agree that there is nothing that can be done to change the situation—it’s never going to move again. However, even if it is a not moving station, it can still study the planet’s atmosphere and deep interior.
NASA has been concentrating on trying to position its solar panels to get as much energy from the sun as possible, or to get the rover leaning in a manner that will allow the most amount of sunlight falling on its solar panels, in order to keep it alive during the coming winter months. Engineers have planned to rock the vehicle back and forth to acquire a more favorable position. However, no matter how many efforts have been made, Spirit still could not get out of the soft soil and could not lean itself toward the sun as the Martian winter approached. Without enough energy reaching its solar panels and with so little energy in its batteries, it went into hibernation, just like a polar bear, and has not communicated with Earth since March 22, 2010.
Whatever the future holds for Spirit, its mission has been an outstanding success. When it landed on the Red Planet in January 2004, no one was really sure how long it would continue working in the cold and dusty environment. As a matter of fact, three months was its original goal.
After so many fruitless efforts, NASA scientists are losing hope of ever reconnecting with Spirit, but they will give it one more try. Ground controllers are contacting Spirit over a range of frequencies and at different times during the day in case its internal clock stopped working and it lost track of time. They also are commanding the rover to turn on its backup radio transmitter in case the main one is dead.
If this final effort to connect isn’t successful, NASA will shift the focus to its twin robot, Opportunity, which is in a different part of Mars. Opportunity is still on the move and continues to travel freely to this day. It has traveled 16.6 miles so far, and is currently rolling towards another crater it has yet to explore.
NASA has spent more than $900 million on the project but shows no sign of giving up on these determined and hard-working robots. The rovers are, though, experiencing gradual wear and tear, the expected damage to something caused by using it repeatedly over a period of time. Even before Spirit got trapped, one of its wheels had failed. And NASA says it’s just a matter of time before both robots break down completely.
1.According to the passage, what can we know about Spirit?
A. It had explored Mars several times.
B. Its original mission was to work for five years.
C. It landed on Mars three weeks later than Opportunity.
D. It discovered that Mars was once a warm and wetter place.
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT what NASA did?
A. Try to lean Spirit to make it get as much sunlight as possible.
B. Rock Spirit back and forth to make it acquire a more favorable position.
C. Make efforts to help Spirit get out of the soft soil where it is stuck.
D. Contact and order Spirit to turn on its backup radio transmitter.
3.The reason why Spirit failed to communicate with the Earth is that ________.
A. it didn’t have enough energy B. it had finished its task
C. something was wrong with its wheels D. it met an unidentified creature
4.By saying “NASA will shift the focus” in Paragraph 7, the author means that ______.
A. NASA will move the center of Spirit out of the sand
B. NASA will depend on Opportunity to do the exploration
C. NASA will do nothing but wait for some opportunity
D. NASA will make opportunity help Spirit
5.The last paragraph mainly informs us that _______.
A. NASA has planned to spend more money on Spirit
B. Spirit will be brought back to Earth
C. Spirit will stop operating totally in the future
D. Spirit will cause damage to Mars
6. What’s the text mainly about?
A. NASA makes the last effort to contact Spirit.
B. Spirit has made many important discoveries on Mars.
C. How Spirit got stuck and couldn’t move on Mars.
D. Why NASA tried many ways to contact Spirit.
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