《The Economist》3月时事语篇填空改编3-2024届高三英语二轮复习

语篇填空一 The world’s largest rocket has flown again, and its 1.________(man) test flight on March 14th, like the two previous ones, ended in explosions. But the upper stage of Starship(星舰), built by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, reached orbit for the first time and completed several test operations before 2.________(destroy) while re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.In a defiant post on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, Mr Musk insisted that “Starship will make life multiplanetary.” Perhaps. This latest flight was at least 32.________ small step in that direction. SpaceX’s aim is that both vehicles should 4.________(eventual) be fully reusable, flying back to Earth to land, as its Falcon 9 boosters already do.Yet even these more limited goals have so far proved overambitious. During the test flight in November, the Super Heavy booster exploded when it attempted to reignite its engines in 5.________(prepare) for splashdown(爆炸). This time round, it successfully completed its “boostback burn”, 6.________ carried it to its intended splashdown point in the Gulf of Mexico. And while SpaceX may be making rapid progress by spacefaring(航天的) standards, Starship development is taking longer than 7.________(expect). The work is partly funded by NASA, America’s space agency, and is critical to its plans to return humans to the Moon later this decade. A lunar landing by astronauts in a Starship vehicle, as part of the Artemis programme, once planned for 2025, 8.________(delay) to 2026. Mr Musk has said that he hopes Starship will make “at least six more flights this year”. The paradox(悖论) of SpaceX’s approach 9.________ rocket development is that it is both faster than any of its competitors, and also slower than NASA needs. 10.________whatever its speed of travel, SpaceX has just taken its next step towards the stars. 语篇填空二 Building a large language model (大型语言模型,简称LLM) 1.________(require)vast amounts of data. In conventional training, an LLM is fed mountains of