SpaceX星舰火箭专题：外刊语法填空 -2024届高考英语一轮复习

2024届高考备考 外刊原创语法填空 专题一 SpaceX星舰火箭发射再次爆炸 语法填空（一） SpaceX launched its second Starship rocket flight on Saturday. _______1_______(lift) off around 8 a.m. ET from the company’s facility in Texas, Starship flew for more than seven minutes, successfully separating ___2___its booster before the rocket’s onboard system intentionally destroyed the vehicle mid-flight. No people were on board the test flight. “We have lost the data from the second stage. ____3____we do believe right now is that the Automated Flight Termination System on the second stage appears ____4____(have) triggered very late in the burn,” John Insprucker, SpaceX principal integration engineer. The flight termination(终止) system is ____5____ standard safety feature in rockets, as it _____6_______( destroys) the vehicle if a problem arises or it flies off course. On SpaceX’s webcast, Starship appears to have been exploded ___7___an altitude of about 148 kilometers. That is under half the altitude at ___8____ the International Space Station orbits the Earth. The intentional destruction of Starship represents a premature end to the flight test. “An ____9_____(incredible) successful day, even____10__ we did have a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” SpaceX quality engineering manager Kate Tice said on the webcast. 参考答案： 1. Lifting 2. from 3. What 4. to have 5. a 6. destroys 7. at 8. which 9. incredibly 10. though 外刊原文精读： SpaceX launched its second Starship rocket flight on Saturday, with Elon Musk’s company pushing development of the mammoth vehicle past new milestones. Lifting off around 8 a.m. ET from the company’s facility in Texas, Starship flew for more than seven minutes, successfully separating from its booster before the rocket’s onboard system intentionally destroyed the vehicle mid-flight. No people were on board the test flight. “We have lost the data from the second stage. What we do believe right now is that the Automated Flight Termination System on the second stage appears to ha