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)8. The underlined word ―unfortunately‖ means ―________‖ in Chinese. A. 不幸地 B. 幸運地 C. 令人高興地 D. 不可能地 ( ) 9. The writer mainly talks about his _____ in the fourth paragraph. A. life pleasure B. future job C. future family D. future ine (收入 ) ( ) 10. What’s the best title for the passage? A. My plans for the future. B. The real meaning of life. C. Education and life. D. The importance of the language. C Good morning, everyone. I’m Stephen W. Hawking. Today I’m going to share some opinions about the universe with you. Do you ever think of the beginning of the universe? Of course, people began to discuss this question a long time ago. Most people believed that the universe is unchanging (不變的 ). Only a few of them thought of this question — whether or not (是否 ) the universe has a beginning. In 1929, Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer (天文學家 ), made the great observation (評論 ) that whenever you look, distant (遠的 ) stars are moving rapidly away from us. In other words, the universe is expanding (膨脹 ). This means that at earlier times objects would have been close together. In fact, it seemed that there was a time about ten or twenty thousand million years ago when they were all at exactly the same place. ( ) 11. The passage is most probably taken from a(n) ________. A. advertisement B. speech C. poster D. play ( ) 12. Most people believed that ________. A. the universe is unchanging B. the universe is expanding C. the distant stars are moving away from us D. the universe has a beginning ( ) 13. It seemed that the stars were all at exactly the same place about ________ years ago. A. 10,000 or 20,000 B. 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 , 000,000 or 20,000,000 D. 10,000,000,000 or 20,000,000,000 ( ) 14. Which of the following is NOT included in Edwin Hubble’s observation? A. Distant stars are moving rapidly away from us. B. The universe is expanding. C. The universe is unchanging. D. At earlier times objects would have been close together. ( ) 15. The main idea of the passage is about ________. A. Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer B. whether or not the universe had a beginning C. the great observation D. Stephen W. Hawking