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阅读理解议论文 1. 天津市南开中学2022-2023学年高三上学期期末 2. 2017年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语（江苏卷） 3. 2022届湖北省华中师范大学第一附属中学高考考前测试 4. 2022·广东·华南师大附中校考一模 5. 2022·上海·复旦附中校考模拟预测 6. 2022·湖南·湖南师大附中校考模拟预测 7. 2022·湖北·恩施市第一中学校考模拟预测 8. 2022·广东·华南师大附中校考一模 A （天津市南开中学2022-2023学年高三上学期期末）On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile, in Florida, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched and fired a sports car into space. Guess which story has dominated mainstream news sites? The launch of Musk’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the most powerful ever launched by a private company, went off successfully. Musk sent his cherry-red Tesla roadster running toward Mars, launching “a new space age”. The event attracted phenomenal publicity and made the rocket launch a masterstroke of advertising for Tesla. Meanwhile, in Syria, where hundreds of thousands of refugees(难民) may be forced to return to unsafe homes, a UN human rights coordinator for Syria said despondently(沮丧地) that he was no longer sure why he bothers to videotape the effects of bombing, since nobody ever pays attention. He wondered what level of violence it would take to make the world care. There is, perhaps, no better way to appreciate the tragedy of 21st-century global inequality than by watching a billionaire spend $90m launching a $100,000 car into space. Musk said he wanted to participate in a space race because “races are exciting” and that while strapping his car to a rocket may be “silly and fun … silly and fun things are important”. Thus, anyone who mentions the huge waste the project involves, or the various social uses to which these resources could be put, can be dismissed as a killjoy. But one doesn’t have to hate fun to question the justification for pursuing a costly new space race at exactly this moment. If we examine the situation honestly, it becomes hard to defend a project like this. A mission to Mars does indeed sound exciting, but it’s important to have our priorities straight. First, perh