期中题型专练 2023-2024学年牛津译林版 八年级英语下册

期中题型专练-阅读理解- 2023-2024学年 八年级英语下册 牛津译林版 Space junk is a danger to the satellites and may hurt astronauts. There are tens of millions of pieces of rubbish in space. Some of the pieces are from passing comets, but most of them are from large broken satellites and rockets after they stopped working. Though satellite technology offers some advantages to people, the increasing use of it could make large areas of Earth’s orbit into bad condition. The space closely around our planet is becoming increasingly crowded with over 9,000 satellites in orbit today, and the Eastern Southern Observatory (ESO) shows that this number may grow to 75,000 by 2030. As Space.com reported in October 2022, the International Space Station (ISS) had to think about how to keep clear of a piece of space junk from a broken Russian satellite in 2021. In November 2021, astronauts in the ISS had to stay inside their spaceship when the space station passed close to space junk. NASA scientists have called for an agreement to make sure “space junk” doesn’t make the activities in Earth’s orbit into trouble and they are working on it. “Satellites are important to the people and Earth itself. However, using too much space will put our planet into a dangerous situation,” said Melissa Quinn, Head of Space port Cornwall. “I hope all countries need to pay attention, to understand the importance of the next step, and to work together, to keep the problem under control.” 1．The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________. A．space B．Earth C．rubbish D．satellite technology 2．The report in Paragraph 3 mainly shows that ________. A．the Russian satellite has just badly broken B．a piece of space rubbish can be very dangerous C．the main job of the ISS is to collect the space junk D．space rubbish is everywhere around the space station 3．Which of the following is True according to the passage? A．Most of space junk are pieces from passing comets. B．There may be 75, 000 satellites in the earth orbit by 2030.