Question

What will the future be like? It’s possible that we may often fly up into space! Out of all the coolest inventions of the year 2004, Time magazine chose SpaceShipOne as the best.

SpaceShipOne is a 6-metre-long white spacecraft. On June 21, American pilot Mike Melvill flew it to space and back—about 100 kilometres up into the sky. Some might say it’s not a big success. You know, people went to the Moon years ago.

Well, SpaceShipOne is special because it is the first spaceship that wasn’t made by the government. It was built and sent up by a private US company. Lots of people want to travel in space and think that it is an enjoyable trip. But it’s too expensive. American millionaire Dennis Tito paid almost US $20 million to become the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station in 2001. So private companies began to think of making their own spacecraft to take other tourists up into space.

Certainly, the success of SpaceShipOne is a good start. In the next 10 to 15 years, if you

pay $20,000 to $100,000, you could fly high above the Earth in a special suit.

Can you imagine having your own spacecraft in your garage and taking it to space at the weekend?

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1.invention

2.metres

3.special

4.government

5.2004

6.Pilot

7.surface

8.possible

9.money

10.weekends

【解析】《时代》杂志评出了2004最酷的发明—宇宙飞船1号，这个宇宙飞船特殊在它是由美国的一个私人公司制造的，并进行了一次太空航行。这是一个好的开始，在未来，也许你只需要花费一点钱，你就可以乘坐着私人宇宙飞船去太空航行了。

1.根据短文的开头Out of all the coolest inventions of the year 2004, Time magazine chose SpaceShipOne as the best可知，《时代》杂志评出宇宙飞船一是2004年最酷的发明，就此引出文章的中心，由此可知这里应填invention，名词，发明。

2.根据短文的第二段SpaceShipOne is a 6-metre-long white spacecraft可知，宇宙飞船1有六米长，原文6-metre-long是合成形容词，六米长的，做定语，修饰名词spacecraft。这个空没有用连字符号，metre应该用复数形式，故填metres。

3.根据短文第三段中Well, SpaceShipOne is special because it is the first spaceship that wasn’t made by the government.可知，宇宙飞船1很特殊，因为它是第一个不是由政府制造的宇宙飞船。由此可知这里填special，特殊的，形容词。

4.根据短文第三段中Well, SpaceShipOne is special because it is the first spaceship that wasn’t made by the government. It was built and sent up by a private US company可知，宇宙飞船1是由一个美国的私人工作制造并发射的，而不是由政府制造的。故填government，政府。

5.根据短文的开头Out of all the coolest inventions of the year 2004可知，这个宇宙飞船是2004年的一个发明，再根据第二段中On June 21, American pilot Mike Melvill flew it to space and back可知，在6月21号，它做了它的第一次太空飞行。由此可知应是2004年。

6.根据短文第二段中On June 21, American pilot Mike Melvill flew it to space and back可知，Mike Melvill 是飞行员，pilot飞行员。

7.根据短文第二段中about 100 kilometres up into the sky可知，宇宙飞船1飞行到了距离地面100公里的高度，surface名词，地面，表面。

8.根据短文中In the next 10 to 15 years, if you pay $20,000 to $100,000, you could fly high above the Earth in a special suit.可知，在未来的10到15年，如果你能付2万美元到10万美元，你就可以飞到离地球很高的地方，因此更多的私人宇宙飞船将成为可能。possible可能的，是形容词，在句中做宾语补足语。

9.根据短文的最后In the next 10 to 15 years, if you pay $20,000 to $100,000, you could fly high above the Earth in a special suit.可知，在未来，人们只需要花费2万美元到10万美元就可以乘坐宇宙飞船飞到离地球很高的地方，这比上面提到的2千万美元要便宜的多了。因此这里填money，花费的钱会更少。

10.根据短文的最后一句话Can you imagine having your own spacecraft in your garage and taking it to space at the weekend可知，也许在未来你可以乘坐你自己的宇宙飞船去太空过周末。weekends周末，这里用复数形式，表示很多个周末。

点睛：这是一篇任务型阅读，我们需要根据文章的内容，完成表格中需要的信息。这是一个信息整合的题目，理解文意、弄清楚文章的结构是做题的前提，其次是要在需要填空的句子中寻找关键词，对应到原因，根据空前后的搭配，填写适当的单词。有时候填的词与原文一样，有的则需要根据意思填写另一个单词。例如第1小题、第4小题和第6小题，这几个都是与原文的词一样，是原词复现。再例如第2小题，原文是metre，这里应填的是复数metres，原因是原文与这里使用的句式不一样，我们需要根据具体情况用正确的形式。