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专题02 阅读理解(应用文+记叙文+新闻报道) 高频话题01 人与自然—航空航天 Passage 1 2022-2023学年下学期·江苏盐城·高二期中 Scott Kelly visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). He shared his experiences in space with students. Kelly graduated from college with an engineering degree in 1987. He was later accepted into Navy flight school. In 1995, Kelly sent his application to NASA to become an astronaut. He thought, “If I’m going to fail at something, I might as well just fail at something that I think I can’t achieve.” That’s what Kelly told the audience at UW. To his surprise, he landed an interview. From 1999 to 2016, Kelly took part in four space missions. His first was a repair trip to the Hubble Space Telescope. On his second trip, in 2007, he was the mission commander. Kelly finished his third mission in 2011. It was a five-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA was interested in the idea of sending people to space for an even longer period of time. The space agency then chose Kelly to set off on a 340-day mission to the ISS. The trip became one of the longest time ever spent in space. The main purpose of the mission was to study how the human body responds to a long space flight. Space weakens your bones and muscles because your body doesn’t have to use them much in low gravity. That s why astronauts work out for at least two hours a day. Eyesight is also greatly affected by space travel. Kelly says that he wears glasses to correct his vision because of his time spent in space. There’s still a lot to learn about the effects of space flights on the body. And there’s always work to be done in space. The more people who get interested in space, the more steps we can take toward a possible moon base, or even a Mars base. For kids desiring to become astronauts, Kelly has some advice, “Choose something that you like, because if you like it, you’ll do better at it”. 1. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 2 mean? A. Kelly was very afraid of failure. B. Kelly was sure that