人教九上U6 Beyond Earth主题阅读训练 一、完形填空 Li Ziying is a 13-year-old middle school student from Guangzhou. She has loved everything about space since she was a little girl. Last month, she won first prize in a national space science competition with her ____1____ for a Mars vegetable growing box. Ziying first got the idea last year when she watched a documentary about space food. ____2____ astronauts on Mars can only eat dried food now, she hoped to design something to help them eat fresh vegetables. She spent almost eight months ____3____ information and doing experiments. When her friends asked her to play on weekends, she always refused and stayed in her room to work on her design. "I never wanted to ____4____, even when I failed 17 times in my seed-growing experiment," she said. Her design is light and easy to carry. It uses solar energy to make a proper ____5____ for vegetables to grow. It can grow 6 kinds of vegetables at the same time. The prize gave Ziying more confidence. "I hope my design can ____6____ real use one day. I want to be a space engineer when I grow up," she said. Her teacher Mr. Wang is very ____7____ of her. "She has a great dream and works really hard for it. She sets a good example for ____8____ students." Now Ziying is taking extra courses about space engineering ____9____ the Internet. She also joins a space club to learn more about rocket knowledge. "The road to space is not easy, ____10____ I will never stop moving forward," she said with a bright smile. 1. A. problem B. design C. dream D. lesson 2. A. Although B. Because C. So D. If 3. A. making B. taking C. collecting D. having 4. A. give away B. give up C. put up D. put away 5. A. temperature B. reason C. hobby D. plan 6. A. come into B. go into C. run into D. walk into 7. A. afraid B. tired C. proud D. careful 8. A. another B. other C. others D. the other 9. A. in B. on C. at D. with 10. A. but B. so C. or D. for 二、阅读理解 A篇（改编自NASA 官方网站） On April 1, 2026, NASA's Artemis II mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — began a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon. It was the first time humans had traveled to the Moon in more than half a century. The crew flew 695,081 miles in total. At their farthest point, they were 252,756 miles from Earth. The Orion spacecraft flew within 4,067 miles of the lunar surface. During the flyby, the astronauts captured more than 7,000 images of the Moon's surface. They also saw a solar eclipse, where the Moon blocked the Sun from Orion's view. On April 10, the Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. The crew returned safely to Earth. "Artemis II proved the vehicle, the teams, and the international partnership that will return humanity to the lunar surface," said NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya. The Artemis II mission is a key step toward NASA's goa ... ...
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