教學內容:Fact and fantasy
15. the english play __________ my students acted at the new year’s party was a great success.
a. for which b. at which c. in which d. on which
(二)完形填空(每小題1.5分,共30分)
since the beginning of time, man has been interested in the moon. leonardo once said that one day a great machine bird would take a person to the moon and bring great _____1_____ to the home where he was born.
four and a half centuries later, leonardo’s ____2_____ was realized. apollo ⅱ took three americans—collins, aldrin, and armstrong—to the moon. the mission(飛行任務)did fill the whold world _____3____ great surprise, as leonardo had said it _____4____. numerous essays, articles, and books were written about man’s first moon mission. but perhaps the most interesting story was the _____5____ written before the event, over 100 years before.
in 1865, french author jules verne wrote a story about the first journey to the moon. his story was very _____6____ the 1969 apollo ⅱ mission.
verne’s spacecraft _____7____ contained three men: two americans and frenchman. the spacecraft was _____8____ as being almost the same size as apollo ⅱ. the launch(發射)
9____ in verne’s story was also in florida. the spacecraft in _____10_____ was namd the “columbia”.the apollo ⅱ command ship was also called “columbia.”his account of sending the spacecraft into the space _____11____ easily have been written about how apollo ⅱ was sent into space.
verne’s story was the same as the actual event in several other _____12____. the speed of verne’s spacecraft was 36,000 feet per _____13____; apollo’s was 35,533 feet per second. verne’s spacecraft took 97 hours to reach the moon; apollo’s time was 103 hours.________14____
apollo’s spacemen, verne’s spacemen took pictures of the moon’s surface, relaxed on their seats, cooked with gas, and _____15____ weightlessness. they too came down in the pacific and were ____16_____ by an american warship.
what were the ____17____ for jules verne’s extreme accuracy in describing an event 100 years or more ____18____ it actually occurred? he ____19___ his writings on the laws of physics and astronomy. nineteenth-century science and the vivid verne’s imagination gave people an ____20____ accurate preview of one of the greatest events of the 20th century.
1. a. shame b. fear c. honor d. damage
2. a. plan b. idea c. design d. program
3. a. in b. by c. of d. with
4. a. would b. had c. was d. did
5. a. that b. one c. being d. some
6. a. different from b. similar to c. same as d. far from