完形填空(八) 科技说明
A [2019·菏泽]
Nowadays, many people drive their cars to work. There are a lot of cars in the street and the 1 is very busy. So sometimes 2 is not easy for people to get to work on time. When you are going to be late, you only dream of taking a plane there. Can your dream 3 ?
Yes! You can take a plane only in months!
Four engineers in Germany are 4 in making planes. They are making a new plane—Lilium jet. It doesn’t look like a plane 5 an egg. Many people think it looks funny and interesting. The great “egg” can take two people to the sky and 6 three hundred kilometres in one hour. That’s really great.
Some people call Lilium jet “a flying car”. Why? Firstly, it’s not difficult for people to learn to drive it. People can drive it just like driving a car. But it can go 7 and farther than a car. Secondly, Lilium jet is not very big, only a quarter of a plane. So it doesn’t need an airport. Only a small place is OK. It can stop 8 . In the future, the “flying car” will come into people’s life and 9 our ways of trip.
Lilium jet will come on the market soon. 10 you want to make your trip easy and funny, why not buy one? I’m sure you will have a good time on it.
( )1.A.traffic B.sky C.train
( )2.A.this B.that C.it
( )3.A.come on B.come back C.come true
( )4.A.bored B.interested C.disappointed
( )5.A.but B.and C.so
( )6.A.walk B.swim C.fly
( )7.A.slower B.faster C.earlier
( )8.A.where B.nowhere C.everywhere
( )9.A.change B.find C.lose
( )10.A.Unless B.If C.Whether
B [2019·广州]
The first astronauts
Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines 1 at the sky. This is very different from the situation 2 years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of 3 the universe.
When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago, 4 the first astronauts were not people—they were animals.
Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as 5 as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test 6 in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals 7 first went into space. Many of them 8 , but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we 9 forget these animals.
Albert Ⅱ was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died 10 his spaceship landed back on Earth.
11 the result was different for Ham the Monkey.His story ended happily when he returned to Earth 12 very good health.
Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: could 13 animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham 14 into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for 15 16 years.
( )1.A.look B.to look C.looking D.looked
( )2.A.thousand B.thousands C.thousand of D.thousands of
( )3.A.explore B.to explore C.explored D.exploring
( )4.A.as B.or C.but D.so
( )5.A.safe B.safer C.safest D.the safest
( )6.A.they B.them C.their D.theirs
( )7.A.whom B.what C.that D.whose
( )8.A.die B.died C.have died D.will die
( )9.A.shouldn’t B.may not C.don’t have to D.needn’t
( )10.A.if B.because C.after D.since
( )11.A.Luck B.Lucky C.Luckier D.Luckily
( )12.A.at B.on C.in D.for
( )13.A.a B.an C.the D./
