专题10 阅读理解精练精析20篇（期中真题+名校模拟）-2022-2023学年七年级英语上学期期中考点大串讲（外研版）

专题10 阅读理解精练精析20篇 期中真题+名校模拟 （2022·广东·广州白云广雅实验学校七年级期中）On June 17th, 2021, both the European Space Agency and Roscosmos used the word “taikonauts” to congratulate（祝贺）China on sending three “taikonauts” on their Shenzhou Ⅻ mission（任务）to outer space. With the Greek word “naut”, which means sailor, and “taiko”, the Chinese word for space, the word “taikonauts” is used for Chinese astronauts. Yet “taikonauts” is more than just a word. Its history shows that of China’s space journey. Started in 1992, the manned spacecraft engineering（载人航天工程）of China was far behind the USA and Russia in the beginning. Six years later, a Chinese Malaysian, used it first in a piece of news on the Internet. However, back then few people picked up on it, as China was still rather weak at that time. The word did not become widely known until 2003. It was when China sent Yang Liwei, the first taikonaut into space by Shenzhou Ⅴ. Since 1998, China has had 34 trained taikonauts. Behind these taikonauts, thousands of ot