6.Neil Armstrong,the first man ever to set foot on the moon,is best remembered by his words"That's one small step for (a) man,one giant leap for the mankind".Once,in an interview with his son,he said it was difficult to watch a sci-fi movie with his dad,because Armstrong would keep complaining about how unrealistic their vision of space were.
In fact,even the Oscar-winning Gravity,described as"the most realistic space movie ever"by Forbes,is not 100 percent faithful to reality.Here is part of a former NASA astronaut-Garrett Reisman's movie review.
On the whole,it's a great movie.But the question that most people want me to answer is how realistic it was.
In general,sci-fi movies are usuallyfar-fetched.So it's amazing how many things Gravity gets right.The danger of space debris(殘。﹊s very real.There are currently more than 600,000 pieces of debris larger than 1 cm orbiting Earth and they pose a great risk to spacecrafts.However,in the movie,astronauts can see the debris coming and quickly seek shelter.In reality,debris can travel at 20 times the speed of sound,which means that if you can see it,it's already too late to hide.
Another huge error was-there was absolutely no reason for the male astronaut Matt Kowalski to sacrifice himself!!He lets go of the hand of his female partner,Ryan Stone,and drifts away into space.In reality,Kowalski wouldn't have flown away when Stone let go of his hand.Instead,he would have just stayed floating in that spot.
In the movie,Stone travels from the Hubble Telescope to the International Space Station and then to the Chinese Space Station Tiangong,where she finds an escape vehicle to take her back to Earth.But this is actually the biggest error in the movie.The Hubble,the International Space Station and a Chinese space station are not neighbors.Getting from one to the other requires so much energy that not even space shuttles had enough fuel to do it.In addition,space stations travel in different orbits,and they travel quickly.And it would be physically impossible to get from one to the other.
There are other,more minor details that are just unrealistic.For example,Stone doesn't wear a cooling garment(降溫服)under her spacesuit to protect herself from the heat in space.
…Yes,I could go on and on about all the things Gravity got wrong.But who cares?All of these inaccuracies were done to help advance the plot or to add drama to the films.This is entertainment,not a documentary.
28.The purpose of the first paragraph is toB.
A.introduce the famous American astronaut Neil Armstrong
B.show that sci-fi movies are often considered unrealistic by astronauts
C.introduce why Gravity is the most realistic space movie ever
D.tell people not to believe everything they see in sci-fi movies
29.The underlined word"far-fetched"can best be replaced by"A".
A.unlikely to be true                    
B.difficult to understand
C.easy to mislead people                
D.unpopular with astronauts
30.Which of the following situations would agree with the laws of physics in space according to the passage?C
A.Astronauts collecting flying space debris
B.Astronauts wearing only T-shirts under their spacesuits
C.Astronauts staying afloat where they are after they part with a spaceship
D.Astronauts performing a space walk from the Hubble Telescope to the International Space Station
31.We can infer from the passage thatD.
A.Garrett Reisman doesn't think highly of the movie Gravity
B.directors of sci-fi movies usually don't care much about minor details
C.the shooting of space documentaries and sci-fi movies involve totally different skills
D.Garrett Reisman believes that sci-fi movies don't need to be totally faithful to reality.

分析 文章通過登月第一人Neil Armstrong講述了太空的一些真實(shí)現(xiàn)象來反駁科幻電影的理論,但電影畢竟是娛樂而不是紀(jì)錄片.

解答 BACD
28   B   細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章第一 段because Armstrong would keep complaining about how unrealistic their vision of space were. 可知科幻電影通常被宇航員認(rèn)為是不真實(shí)的,故選B.
29    A    細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章第三 段The danger of space debris(殘。﹊s very real. 可知太空中的殘骸是非常危險(xiǎn)的,你一旦看到殘骸,躲避就太晚了,故選A.
30    C   細(xì)節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第三 段Instead,he would have just stayed floating in that spot.可知電影中Matt Kowalski在松手后遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)的飄走到太空是錯(cuò)的,他只會(huì)在原地飄著,故選C.
31    D   推理判斷題.  根據(jù)文章最后一 段All of these inaccuracies were done to help advance the plot or to add drama to the films.This is entertainment,not a documentary.可知電影畢竟是娛樂而不是紀(jì)錄片.故選D.

點(diǎn)評(píng) 考察學(xué)生的細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細(xì)節(jié)理解題時(shí)一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進(jìn)行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個(gè)人的主觀想象代替文章的事實(shí),要根據(jù)文章事實(shí)進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.

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