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18 世界明天更美好
2022年中考英语时事热点话题题型专练
一、完型填空
When you’re still strong enough, what kind of holiday will you want to take? 1 you’re under 30 now, perhaps you’11 be able to take a holiday in space!
A Japanese company, Shimizu, 2 to open the first hotel in space within 15 years. It wants to offer 3 – day 3 in a space station, which will be bigger than the International Space Station. However, holidays in space will be very 4 ! About 90, 000 dollars for seventy-two hours! Shimizu believes that there are enough people who will be 5 to pay the price.
Other companies in Japan and the USA already plan to 6 hotels on the moon. Shimizu is quite serious about this, 7 they can’t start building their space hotels yet.
First, they will have to find a shuttle(航天飞机)that can be used for 8 times and can also be used for business. There are no such shuttles at the moment. Old American shuttles, such as Atlantis and Columbia, were very expensive to launch(发射). They had to be launched into space with a big rocket 9 couldn’t be reused.
In the future, shuttles will be able to take off and 10 on the ground on their own, probably like airplanes. They will be much cheaper. However, we don’t have such shuttles 11 ; Americans are working on them, but the plan will not 12 in a short time.
However, that is not the only difficulty. There are other big 13 , too. How will ordinary people react(对……作出反应)to life in space? It will still take today’s astronauts(宇航员)months to 14 before going into space. They have to be in top form because they need strong and healthy bodies when living in space.
Holidays in space will not be seen tomorrow, but they will 15 one day.
1.A.As B.Or C.But D.If
2.A.plants B.plans C.phones D.picks
3.A.games B.holidays C.breaks D.camps
4.A.enjoyable B.high C.slow D.expensive
5.A.hard B.terrible C.ready D.interested
6.A.change B.make C.open D.close
7.A.and B.but C.so D.then
8.A.few B.little C.ma