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话题读写进阶练 第一部分 话题读写进阶练 2 主题群8 宇宙探索（4篇） 3 话题角度：地球与宇宙奥秘、星球星系、航天事业发展和为航空航天事业做出贡献的人物等 4 Passage 1（2023原创） 【读前预先练】 1. make spacewalks __________ 2. female adj.________ →_______（反义词）男性的 3. footsteps n.（pl.）______ 4. along with ____________ 5. spaceflight n.________________ 太空漫步 女性的 male 脚步 和……一起 航天；宇宙飞行 5 Nearly 90 percent of astronauts are men. . .1. . Peggy Whitson, a farmer’s daughter from Iowa, the US, looked up at the night sky and thought “I can go to NASA（美国宇航局）!” She has become a（n）. .2. . astronaut. Between 2002 and 2017, Whitson made 10 spacewalks around the International Space Station（ISS）. She is the female astronaut with the most spacewalks. 6 Born in 1960, Whitson might have . .3. . her parents’ footsteps and become a farmer. But everything . .4. . on July 20, 1969. That night, along with millions of people around the world, she watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people on the moon. Although she was only 9, Whitson was crazy about the . .5. . of going to space. She worked hard in college and got a doctorate in biochemistry（生物化学博士学位） from Rice University. Then she . .6. . NASA as a researcher in 1986. Whitson worked in many . .7. . roles for NASA. For 10 long years, her applications（申请） to join NASA’s astronaut program were all refused. However, she never . .8. . on her dream. She was . .9. . accepted in 1996. In 2002, Whitson had her first spaceflight to the ISS. And she did experiments and also made her first spacewalk there. “I think the biggest . .10. . that I could give people is to actually try and live beyond your dreams by pushing yourself, challenging yourself to do things a little bit outside of your comfort zone（舒适区）,” said Whitson in an interview with Guinness World Records. 1.( )A. And B. But C. Or D. So 根据语境及上一句可知此处表示转折。 2.( )A. possible B. common C. similar D. important 根据第二段最后一句可知她已成为一名重要的宇航员。 3.( )A. followed B. believed C. learned D. developed 根据句中“become a farmer