Question

Listen to the passage and complete the sentences（听短文，完成下列内容，每空格限填一词）：

1.Spaceship One was chosen as the ________ ________ of the year.

2.Lots of people want to travel ________ ________, but it’s too expensive.

3.Dennis Tito was the first ________ ________ to visit the International Space Station.

4.In the next 10 to 15 years, you could ________ ________ above the earth if you pay $20,000 to $100,000.

Answer

1. best/coolest invention

2. in space

3. space tourist

4. fly high

【解析】

【原文】

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, time chose Spaceship One as the best.

Space One is a 6-metre-long white spaceship. On June 12st, American pilot Mike Melville flew it to space and back about 100 kilometres up into the sky. Spaceship One is special because it is the first spaceship made by a private US company. Lots of people want to travel in space, 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 spaceship to take other tourists up into space.

The success of Spaceship One 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.