【正文】 culture. Wang Ying borrowed 20,000 yuan from her parents to and some villagers began to set up a vegetable production base and have earned a total of more than 2 million yuan after a year’ s hard plan a result， Wang Ying has won the approval and trust from the villagers. Many college﹣ graduate village officials， like Wang Ying， are contributing greatly to the development China’ s rural they are expected to acplish more in the future. 第二節(jié) 到此結(jié)束。 Here are some kids who had great ideas that they turned into inventions. We call these kids ? brain children? . Six﹣ year﹣ old Suzanna Goodin, tired of cleaning the cat food spoon, came up with the idea of a spoon﹣ shaped cracker that can be eaten. She won a grand prize for her invention in the Weekly Reader National Invention Contest. Eight﹣ year﹣ old Theresa Thompson and her 9 year old sister Mary were the youngest sisters to receive a US patent. They invented a solar tent for a science fair project in 1960. They called the device a Wigwarm. At age 9, Margaret Knight began working in a cotton mill, where she saw a steel﹣ tipped shuttle(梭子 ) fly out and hit a nearby worker. As a result, Margaret made her first invention: a shuttle restraining device. She went on to invent the machine that makes the square﹣ bottom paper bags we still use for shopping today. That machine was patented in 1871. Eleven﹣ year﹣ old Jeanie Low received a patent on March 10, 1992, for inventing the Kiddie Stool(凳子 )— a fold﹣ up stool that fits under the sink so kids can unfold it, stand on it, and reach the sink on their own! Becky Schroeder began her patenting career when she was 14 years old. She put phosphorescent paint on paper under her writing paper so that she could write in the dark. This invention was later used in all sorts of ways. Doctors use it in hospitals to read patients’ charts at night without waking them, and astronauts use it when their electrical systems are turned down for recharging. Fourteen﹣ year﹣ old Pamela Sica invented a push﹣ button device that raises the floor of a car so that goods can be raised and easily removed. Her invention won a grand prize for her age group in the Weekly Reader National Invention Contest. She wanted to patent her invention but found that it was too expensive. Eight﹣ year﹣ old Chelsea Lannon received a patent in 1994 for the ? pocket diaper(尿布 )? , a diaper that has a pocket that holds things. She got her idea while helping her mother with her baby brother— while she was still in kindergarten! 24. Which inventions won a prize in the Weekly Reader National Invention Contest? spoon﹣ shaped cracker and the shuttle restraining device. shuttle restraining device and the Kiddie Stool. Kiddie Stool and the pocket diaper. spoon﹣ shaped cracker and the device that raises the floor of a car. 解析： D 細節(jié)理解題。 For thousands of years ets have been a mystery to man. They travel across the sky very fast and have a bright ? tail? of burning gas. The et Tempel 1 has an orbit far outside the orbit of the furthest pla in our solar system, Pluto. It has been there for billion years, 133 million kilometers from Earth. Last week a little American spacecraft crashed into Tempel 1. The spacecraft had a camera and it took a photograph of the et every minute before it finally crashed into its surface. The space mission to Tempel 1 cost $335 million and was called Deep Impact. The spacecraft was travelling at 37,000 kilometers per hour when it hit the et and the crash pletely destroyed the spacecraft. But before it hit the et, the spacecraft took some amazing photographs. The last one was a close﹣ up picture which the spacecraft took just 3 seconds before it crashed into the et. ? Right now we have lost one spacecraft,? said a delighted NASA engineer. Deep Impact was like an American Independence Day fireworks display. It took many years to plan and ended in an enormous explosion. The spacecraft which crashed into the et was made of copper and was the size of a washing machine. It was dropped from a mothership into the path of the et and the mothership then photographed the cloud of ice, dust and anic chemicals that rose from the surface of the et after the crash. The crash pletely destroyed the spacecraft but nothing really happened to the et: experts believe that the crash slowed the et down by no more than 1/10,000 of a millimeter a aim of the mission was to study for the first time the interior of a et. The mothership was 480 km from the explosion and observed the crash and the explosion with instruments for 800 seconds. Seven satellites, including the Hubble space telescope, watched the moment of drama, and over the next day and night about 50 telescopes on Earth were watching the distant et. 28. How many hours did it take for the spacecraft from the Earth to touch the et Tempel 1? 2,500. 3,500. 4,500. 5,500. 解析： B 數(shù)字計算題。 31. The author’ s main purpose in writing the passage is to______ . people the discovery of a new et the power of America in space the knowledge of ets an experiment 解析： D 主旨大意題。由文章第三段最后一句內(nèi)容可推知：中國科學家正在研究在月球上軟著陸技術(shù)。 本題是選擇段落主題句。 根據(jù)下文中的? Telling them ‘ I want to be famous’?并結(jié)合上文中的? The show’ s producers will… response?可知，此處談論的是你在申請參加節(jié)目時會被問到的問題和你的回答。 解析： D 結(jié)合下文的? That cloud looks like a penguin?可知，此處 Olivia看到的云看起來像犀牛，應選 D。 crawl 爬行； play 玩； fly 飛； hunt狩獵。 解析： B 此處指 雨滴落在 Olivia 的前額上，因此選 B。 解析： D? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?為固定用法，意為?情人眼里出西施?。 。 。 。 注意： ； 10 處，多者（從第 11 處起）不計分。 intested in…為固定短語，?對……感興