单选题 In 1902, Georges Méliès 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 small models of those designs, and tested 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 fight 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] 第一段第二句“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.”。
细节题。题目问的是在电影《月球旅行记》中，太空船是通过什么被送人太空的?根据定位句，电影中太空船被装在大炮里瞄准月球。C项“通过大炮”符合句意，故选C。

单选题 The movie was based on a book written by ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 第二段第一句“This movie was based on a book that came out many years earlier by an author named Jules Verne. ”。
细节题。题目问的是这部电影是以谁的小说为蓝本的?根据定位句“这部电影是根据多年前一位名叫儒勒·凡尔纳的作者的小说改编的”，说明是凡尔纳写的书。和D项相符，故选D。

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] 全文。
细节题。题目问的是在太空船发明之前，下列哪种不是太空旅行的解决方案?A项“炸弹”，出现在第三段第二句；B项“气球”，在第四段第五句提到，但用来说明初期火箭的不安全性；C项“飞机”，出现在第三段第二句；D项“火箭”，出现在第四段第四句。综上所述，B项不是太空旅行的解决方案，故选B。

单选题 What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第四段。
归纳题。题目问的是第四段大意是什么?第四段介绍了科学家制作并发射航天飞机的全过程。首先是进行设计，然后制作小模型，再逐渐增大体积直至和实际尺寸一致，接下来进行无人测试，动物测试、最后再进行载人测试。A项“将人送入太空花了很多时间和努力”；B项“美国科学家比俄国科学家工作得好”；C项“来自俄国和美国的科学家进行了紧密的合作”；D项“火箭的设计受到了电影《月球旅行记》的影响”。结合段意分析，A项最符合，故选A。

单选题 The word "shoot" (Para. 4) is closest in meaning to ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第四段最后一句“Only after a long time did they ever put a person inside a rocket and shoot him into space. ”。
词汇题。题目问的是第四段的“shoot”和哪个词意思最接近?根据定位句“在很久之后，科学家才让人进入火箭并把他发射到太空中去。”可知，这里的shoot是发射的意思。A项“大力发送出去”；B项“碎成很多片”；C项“修正一个问题”；D项“用武器攻击”。A项意思最为接近，故选A。