In 1902, Georges Melies made and released a movie called A Trip to the Moon. In this movie, the spaceship was a small capsule, shaped like a bullet, that was loaded into a giant cannon and aimed at the moon. This movie was based on a book that came out many years earlier by an author named Jules Verne. One of the fans of the book was a Russian man, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. The book made him think. Could one really shoot people out of a cannon and have them get safely to the moon? He decided one couldn't, but it got him thinking of other ways one could get people to the moon. He spent his life considering this problem and came up with many solutions. Some of Tsiolkovsky's solutions gave scientists in America and Russia ideas when they began to think about space travel. They also thought about airplanes they and other people had made, and even big bombs that could fly themselves very long distances. Many scientists spent years working together to solve the problem. They drew and discussed different designs until they agreed on the ones that were the best. Then, they built mall models of those designs, and tested them until they felt ready to build even bigger models. They made full-scale rockets, which they launched without any people inside, to test for safety. Often the rockets weren't safe, and they exploded right there on the launch pad, or shot off in crazy directions like a balloon that you blow up and release without tying it first. After many, many tests, they started to send small animals into space. Only after a long time did they ever put a person inside a rocket and shoot him into space. Even after they began sending people into space, scientists were still trying to improve the shape of the rockets. The design changed many times, and eventually ended up looking like a half-rocket and half-airplane. The machine called space shuttle was used for many years. Now, the government lets private companies try their own designs for spaceships, and they have come up with many different, crazy-looking machines.
单选题
In the movie A Trip to the Moon, the spaceship was sent to the moon________.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：根据“…was loaded into a giant cannon and aimed at the moon”可知，电影里的宇宙飞 船是装在a giant cannon(大炮)里发射的，所以C选项正确。“capsule”只是the spaceship的属性，“bullet”是the spaceship的形状，by a gun文中没有提到。
单选题
The movie was based on a book written by________.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据第二段第一句“This movie was based on a book…by an author named Jules Verne”可知。
单选题
Before the invention of a spaceship, possible solutions of space travel included all of the following EXCEPT________.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：细节题。根据第三、四段可知，太空旅行的方式主要有三种，即第三段中提到的 “They also thought about airplanes”和“even big bombs”，以及第四段当中的“They made full—scale rockets”。而用balloons的爆炸方式来形容rockets的不安全性，balloons只是一 个喻体，所以选择B。