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【正文】 BTeams are already gathering at the first mercial spaceport in the Mojave Dessert in California to work on their spaceship designs. Contestants have until December 31,2012 to qualify(取得資格)for the contest, which ends last time humans went to the moon, the voyage inspired a generation of scientists and explorers. Google and the X PRIXE Foundation are hoping that their contest will get even more people to reach for the moon, the stars and beyond. ( ) the first team land their craft on the surface of the moon and discover water ice, how much prize money will they receive?A.$5 million. B. $10 million.C. $20 million. D.$25 million.( ) are Google and the X PRIXE Foundation calling on people to go to the moon?A. Further exploration of the moon will benefit mankind.B. They want everyone to join in the space race.C. They require video and Internet clips of the moon’s surface.D. They hope that new exploration will find life on the moon.( )55. It can be learned from the passage that .A. no private pany has ever set foot on the moon so farB. contestants can win the prize so long as they touch down on the moonC. contestants don’t have to design their own spaceships.D. the contest will end in 2012( )56. what’s the main idea of the passage?A. More scientists are working on spaceship designs.B. Google and the X PRIZE Foundation joined forces to land on the moon.C. More teams are encouraged to join in the race to explore the moon.D. The first mercial spaceport has just been pleted in California.CBert Bolin, a Swedish climate scientist and co—founder of the Nobel Peace Prize—winning UN panel (專門研究小組)on climate change, has died at age 82.As early as the 1950s, Bolin produced research on the circulation of carbon in nature that remains related to the debate on climate change. He played a key role in municating the dangers of climate change and served as the first chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1988 to 1988.The panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore for helping alert(警告)the world to the threat of global warming.Bolin died on Sunday in a Stockholm hospital from stomach cancer, but was active until three days before his death, said his colleague Henning Rodhe, a professor in chemical meteorology.(氣象學(xué))at Stockholm University.“He was a great organizer and leader and played an important role internationally in establishing links between scientists and decision—makers,” Rodhe said on
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