In the universe, as we know, there is the sun, the moon, the earth and many stars. Through our geography lessons, we know the earth goes round the sun, and the moon goes round the earth. We have day and night because the earth keeps turning all the time. When our part of the earth turns to the sun, it is day. When our part of the earth turns away from the sun, it is night.
Just because the moon is closer to the earth than the sun, it looks much bigger than the sun. Big things look smaller when they are farther, and small things look bigger when they are nearer.
The sun is bright enough to give out very strong light. The moon can’t give out any light at all, but it looks quite bright too. Why? In fact, the light from the moon comes from the sun. The moon looks much bigger and brighter than the stars. But actually(事实上) the stars are much bigger and brighter than the moon. They look smaller than the moon because they are farther away from the earth.
There are still many other planets in the universe. All of them move round the sun. But of all these planets, only on the earth are there living things and people can only live on the earth too. At 9:00 am, on October 15th, 2003, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei was sent into space. He stayed there for 21 hours. It was the first time for Chinese to get into space.
【小题1】We find the sun _______ than the moon because it is _______ to us.A.bigger; farther | B.smaller; closer |
C.bigger; closer | D.smaller; farther |
A.night | B.day | C.evening | D.Sunday |
A.earth | B.Mars | C.moon | D.sun |
A.On November 15th, 2002. | B.On October 16th, 2003. |
C.On May 6th, 2004. | D.On October 15th, 2003. |
By Global Times
May 12th, 2022
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China’s Zhurong rover (祝融号) has found evidence (证据) showing that water has been on Mars (火星) much longer than expected.
Zhurong, named after the Chinese god of fire, landed safely on Mars on May 15th, 2021, making China only the second behind the United States to fully succeed.
Zhurong, the Mars rover, is 1.85 meters high and weighs about 240 kilograms. It has six wheels and four solar panels (太阳能面板) and it can move at 200 meters an hour on Mars.
The rover’s three-month primary mission (任务) was to search for signs of ancient life. It has done research on the minerals, environment and location of water and ice in the plain. The rover continues to research into its landing place and send information back to the Tianwen-1. The rover returned some information from its primary survey of the basin. It shows that Utopia Planitia basin had water during a time, but many scientists used to believe Mars to be dry and cold.
“Mars is the planet we are most likely to live on in the future. That’s why we want to understand it,” said Ge, a scientist in China’s space program. “Zhurong’s evidence of water on Mars makes great progress in future Mars missions!”
【小题1】China becomes only the ________ to land a rover successfully on Mars according to the passage.A.first | B.second | C.third | D.fourth |
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A.the news came out on May 15th, 2021 | B.the rover returned three months ago |
C.the rover may send pictures back to the Tianwen-1 | D.Mars used to be dry and cold in the ancient time |
A.Tianwen-1. | B.Mars. | C.Future. | D.Zhurong. |
A.The new findings on Mars | B.The future life on Mars |
C.The appearance of Zhurong Rover | D.The landing of Zhurong Rover |
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Mars is an empty planet, but that could change. Someday, it might have farms where fruit and vegetables could grow.
Growing food on Mars has always seemed hard. But scientists think they have found a way to do it. They put sheets (薄膜) of material on the ground. The sheets could change the cold, dry planet into land for farming. Robin Wordsworth worked on the sheets at Harvard University in a Massachusetts. He said the sheets could let people live on another planet. On Mars, the conditions are not good, though. Most importantly, the planet is cold and dry. The soil might have polluted parts, and the air does not have much nitrogen (氮气) that plants need to grow.
The sheets do not solve all the problems. Still, they could help to set up a place for plants. The plants would grow only under the sheets. So there is less worry about harming the rest of Mars. The sheets would cover the plants.
The scientists worked with sheets about an inch thick. Those allowed light through for plants. They also warmed the ground and trapped enough heat to melt ice on Mars. Placing the sheets over icy parts of Mars could let plants alive there. Their study was printed in Nature Astronomy. The sheets could be on the ground to grow water plants and they also could be hung. That would give room to plants to grow on land below them.
Wordsworth said, "You can imagine this being used in a number of ways. It could be used for visitors to Mars. Later it could be for people who live there. However, it's a pity that the sheets are being studied in the lab."
【小题1】The scientists made sheets ________.A.to change the weather of Mars | B.to grow food on Mars |
C.to get materials on the ground | D.to let people live on Mars |
A.Making sheets an inch thick | B.Placing the sheets over icy parts |
C.Growing many plants on the ground | D.Hanging the sheets above the land |
A.will be sent to Mars soon | B.are still on the way |
C.can grow foods for him to eat | D.are popular for visitors to Mars |
A.Plants can live on Mars now | B.How do astronauts live on Mars? |
C.Farming on Mars is coming true. | D.Ways of growing plants on the earth. |
What do black holes look like? Human beings have wanted to know about it for a long time. In 2019, we finally got the answer: They look like dark circles with a bright ring around the outside.
Scientists took the world’s first photo of a black hole. Scientists didn’t use a camera to take the picture. They used eight radio telescopes (射电望远镜) in different places around the world. The telescopes got signals (信号) from the black hole. Scientists used computers to process the signals. It took them two years to get the final picture.
The black hole is very far from Earth—about 55 million light-years away. One light-year is the distance that light travels in one year. One light-year is about 9 trillion (万亿) kilometers.
This is not the only black hole in the universe (字宙). Actually, scientists believe every large galaxy (星系) has a big black hole at its center. The one in our galaxy is called Sagittarius A.
Black holes are some of the most mysterious things in the universe. This photo can help us learn more about them.
【小题1】We can read this passage in a ________.A.storybook | B.novel | C.travel guidebook | D.science magazine |
A.many black circles inside each other | B.dark holes with a bright center |
C.dark circles with a bright ring around the outside | D.black holes with colorful rings in the center |
A.It’s about 495 million trillion kilometers. | B.It’s about 55 million kilometers. |
C.It’s about 495 million kilometers. | D.It’s about 9 trillion kilometers. |
A.The large galaxy in the universe. | B.The black hole in our galaxy. |
C.The name of the radio telescopes. | D.The center of the black hole. |
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