China revealed 【小题1】 names of its upcoming manned lunar lander and new crew space-ship on Saturday. The lunar lander, 【小题2】 (name) Lanyue (Embracing the Moon), reflects China’s ambition for space exploration. The new crew spaceship is called Mengzhou (Dream Vessel), 【小题3】 (symbolize) the nation’s dream of lunar landing and space adventure. There will be two models of the Mengzhou — one 【小题4】 (use) to transport astronauts to the moon 【小题5】 the other will replace the current spaceship Shenzhou to ferry crew members between Earth and the Tiangong space station.

The names were chosen from nearly 2,000 public 【小题6】 (propose) by experts. The re-search and development of the Lanyue, the Mengzhou, and the Long March 10 carrier rocket are progressing well. China aims 【小题7】 (conduct) its first manned mission to the moon around 2030.

The Lanyue lunar lander will weigh 【小题8】 (near) 26 tons, accommodating two astronauts and a 200-kg rover. The Mengzhou spacecraft will consist of two major components — a reentry module 【小题9】 will house astronauts and serve as the control center and a service module containing power and propulsion systems. The vehicle will be nearly 9 meters 【小题10】 length, 4.5 meters in diameter and weigh 22 metric tons.

Gan De was an ancient Chinese astronomer born in the State of Qi. Along with Shi Shen, he is believed to be the first   【小题1】 history known by name to produce a star catalogue (星表). He made fairly 【小题2】 (detail) observations of the five major planets during the 【小题3】 (four) century.

Gan De may have been the first to describe one of the 【小题4】 (satellite) of Jupiter (木星), usually invisible without the aid of telescopes. He gave the following 【小题5】 (describe) of Jupiter’s journey: Every 12 years Jupiter returns to 【小题6】 same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east... In 1981, Gan’s work 【小题7】 (identify) by Xi Zezong as describing a naked-eye observation of either of the two 【小题8】 (large) and brightest satellites in summer 365 BC.

Gan was one of the earliest practitioners of Chinese astronomy. As the earliest attempt 【小题9】 (document) the sky during the Warring States period, Gan De’s work possesses high scientific value. He wrote two books, the Suixing Jing and the Tianwen Xingzhan, 【小题10】 sadly both texts have been lost. Some of his works’ titles and fragments (片段) quoted from them are known from later texts.

Chinese tech company Xiaomi released its first self-developed NEV (new energy vehicle) model SU7. Three versions of the model－SU7, SU7 Pro and SU7 Max－will enter the market, 【小题1】 the prices ranging from 215,900 yuan to 299,900 yuan.

According to Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, the Xiaomi SU7 【小题2】 (undergo) comprehensive testing in 300 cities over the past three years, 【小题3】 (cover) a total road distance of 5.4 million kilometers. The tech company has achieved technological 【小题4】(breakthrough) in key fields such as modeling design, batteries and intelligent driving. Xiaomi plans to invest 24 billion yuan in research and development this year, demonstrating a serious 【小题5】 (commit) to manufacturing cars.

Xiaomi entered the NEV sector in 2021 and built 【小题6】 automobile plant with a land area of more than 700,000 square meters. Data shows that the production volume and the sales volume of NEVs in China reached 1.25 million units and 1.21 million units in the first two months of this year, up 28.2 percent and 29.4 percent year-on-year, 【小题7】 (respective).

【小题8】 (give) that several Chinese companies that had entered the sector faced severe financial difficulties, experts said 【小题9】 or not Xiaomi can really afford the capital and time needed for the smart car business remains 【小题10】 (see).