Lots of people like diving into water, because they can explore the underwater world. But there is another kind of diving. Some people dive into the sky! This is really a very exciting sport. A skydiver goes high up in the air on a plane. Then he jumps off the plane and floats（飘） in the air with the help of a parachute（降落伞）. A parachute is like a huge umbrella. It is put on the back of the skydiver. When the skydiver reaches a certain height, he will pull a string（细绳） and the parachute will open up in seconds and carry him gently（轻轻地） down to the ground.  Skydivers like doing a lot of fascinate tricks in the air. After jumping off the plane one after another, they will try to stay in the air and hold each other’s hands. They can form different shapes.

Is it safe to do skydiving? Yes, as long as we receive right training. But sometimes, accidents do happen. In Canada, two skydivers were killed in 1991 when they jumped off the plane. Because their parachutes got tied up with each other, the parachutes couldn’t open up and both crashed down and died.

1．Why do people like diving into water?

2．How does a skydiver go up into the sky?

3．What does a parachute look like?

4．Where does a skydiver put his parachute?

5．Why were two skydivers killed in Canada?

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　　China launched its first manned spacecraft(航天飞机) into orbit(轨道) from the China Jiuquan Satellite Launch center in Northeast China's Gansu Province. The large, white long March Ⅱ-F rocket carrying a Shenzhou-V spacecraft and China's astronaut(宇航员) Yang Liwei rose up into deep space at 9 a.m. on October 15, 2003.

　　As the first Chinese man to visit outer space, the 38-year-old Yang Liwei traveled in the orbit more than 600,000 kilometres. The Shenzhou-V circled the earth 14 times. It had been away from the earth for 21 hours and 23 minutes.

　　Everything went well, the spacecraft returned at a chosen place on the morning of October 16, 2003 in Inner Mongolia. Over 600 people came to the landing place to welcome Yang Liwei's safe return. This has made China the third country to send up and receive a manned spacecraft after the former Soviet Union and the United States.

　　The flight was very important in history. The success was not only for people all over China, but for people all over the world.

1．In this passage, the underlined word “launched” in the first paragraph means “________”.

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2．How many countries have sent up and received manned spacecraft?

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3．The spacecraft left the earth from ________ and landed in________.

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A．Gansu; Gansu

B．Inner Mongolia; Inner Mongolia

C．Gansu; Inner Mongolia

D．Inner Mongolia; Gansu

B

4．A man jumped from a plane, but there was nothing with him. Do yon know why?

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5．Which thing always goes up, and never comes down?

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6．Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?

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7．Why does Tom's mother go to work by plane every day?

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