单选题Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.
单选题
How many people is the spacecraft supposed to carry?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文] 29-30 Last week, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson showed his new spaceship Enterprise at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. He calls it the world's first commercial passenger spacecraft. (29) The eighteen-meter long craft is designed to carry two pilots and six passengers. The company hopes to begin sending passengers into space by 2011. Mr. Branson says he plans to bring his son and daughter and his parents with him on the first flight. The spacecraft will launch from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Mr. Branson expects his company will be able to take one thousand people into space within the first year of operation. To date, only about five hundred people have traveled into space. (30) Passengers will pay two hundred thousand dollars to ride to outer space and back for two and a half hours. The flight includes about five minutes of weightlessness. Passengers will be required to have three days of training before the flights.