课时提能练(三十) 选修9 Units 3-4
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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(2017年云南省昆明市高三复习教学质量检测)
US private rocket company SpaceX has announced that two private citizens have paid to be sent around the Moon.The mission(任务) is planned for late 2018.SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said,“This presents an opportunity for humans to return to deep space for the first time in 45 years.”
The two unnamed people will fly aboard a spaceship which is set for its first unmanned test flight later this year.The cooperation of America's NASA space agency has made the plan possible.Mr.Musk said,“The two passengers will travel faster and further into the solar system than any before them.”Like the Apollo astronauts before them,these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind,driven by the universal human spirit of