Question

 Discovery Spaceship took off from the Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Atlantic coast. It was launched 1send some new science supplies and other things that the International Space Station needed. This time Discovery Spaceship 2 almost 8 ， 000 kilograms of supplies for the International Space Station.

   3  Discovery was launched, Rick Sturckow，one of the astronauts in the spaceship said to his partner on the ground by radio, "Thanks for everyone 4 helped prepare for this journey to the International Space Station, our journey would be 5 We're ready for stepping up the science on the International Space Station."

   6  the bad weather and a technical problem, the date which Discovery was sent up was 7 A week later people sent it up successfully.

  Discovery spent 13 days 8to the International Space Station, and astronauts had three spacewalks after it 9 the space station on Sunday. Eight mice traveled to the station 10 Discovery. They will live there for several months and help scientists study the astronauts' bone loss and people's bone disease on Earth.

(   ) 1. A. so that    B. in order

      C. in order that    D. in order to
(   ) 2. A. lift    B. lifted

      C. carry    D. carried

(   ) 3. A. Before    B. After

      C. While    D. Until

(   ) 4. A. what    B. who

      C. which    D. whom

(   ) 5. A. faster

     B.   more comfortable

     C.   longer

     D.   more dangerous

(   ) 6. A. Thanks to    B. Thanks for

       C. Because of    D. Because

(   ) 7. A. canceled    B. placed

       C. finished    D. discussed

(   ) 8. A. walk    B. walking

      C.fly    D. flying

(   ) 9. A. connected to

     B.   was connected to

     C.   covered with

     D.   was covered with

(   ) 10. A. in    B.on

      C. by    D. with

Answer 1

l.D in order to意為"為了……"，后接動(dòng)詞原形;so that后接從句。

2. D carry意為"攜帶"；lift意為"舉起"。全文為一般過去時(shí)。

3. A  由文中"Our journey would be…"可知是在發(fā)射之前說的這番話。

4. B 先行詞為人且關(guān)系詞在定語從句中作主語。

5. B 由于地面工作人員的努力，飛向太空站的旅途將更舒適。

6. C 此空后為名詞短語。

7. A  由于天氣和一些技術(shù)原因，發(fā)射曰期被取消。

8. D spend +時(shí)間+ (in) doing sth.飛船是"飛"而不是"走"。

9. B be connected to意為"……被連接在.. 上"5 be covered with  意為"……被……覆蓋"。

10. C by意為"乘……"，常用結(jié)構(gòu)為by+交通工具，故選C。