Have you ever dreamed of visiting a planet in the Milky Way (銀河系)? While the trip sounds exciting, it would take years and years to reach your destination. So in the future, bedtime for astronauts may be more than a few hours of regular shut eye. They would have to sleep for years.
European researchers are now conducting hibernation experiments. The study may help them understand whether humans could ever sleep through the years it would take for a space flight to distant planets. "If there was an effective technology, it could make deep-space travel a reality," said Mark Ayre of the European Space Agency last month.
What seems like a science fiction is not completely unlikely. Researchers have been able to use chemicals to put living cells into a sleep-like state where they don’t age. They have now moved on to the small, non-hibernating mammals (哺乳動物) like rats.
A major challenge is the fact that cells can be very simple systems, whereas body organs are far more complex (復(fù)雜的). "It’s like moving from a simple Apple computer to a supercomputer," said Marco Biggiogera, a hibernation researcher at Italy’s University of Pavia．Just like bears and frogs, the hibernation of human beings would cause a person’s metabolism (新陳代謝) to lower so they would need less energy.
Medical research, however, is just half of a space flight hibernation system. There is a challenge of designing a suitable protective shelter (棲身所). Such a shelter would provide the proper environment for hibernation, such as the proper temperature. It would also have to monitor (監(jiān)控) life functions and serve the physiological needs of the hibernator.
According to Ayre, the six-person Human Outer Planets Exploration Mission (使命) to Jupiter’s moon (木星的衛(wèi)星) Callisto could be an opportunity to use human hibernation. The mission aims to send six persons on a five-year flight to Callisto, where they will spend 30 days, in 2045.
小題1:According to the article, the hibernation research ______.
A．is just an ideaB．is always a science fiction
C．has already finished successfullyD．has made some progress
小題2:In a hibernating state, a person needs ______.
A．less sleep B．more foodC．less energyD．more movement
小題3: The first try of the hibernation technology _____ the six-person Human Outer Planets
Exploration Mission to Jupiter’s moon Callisto.
A．will beB．has been planned for
C．is certain to beD．may be
小題4:What is the best title of the article?
A．Hibernation Study For Space TravelB．Welcome To Our Space Travel
C．To Hibernate, To Live Longer D．Welcome To The Milky Way

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:A
星際探索固然重要，可是怎樣打發(fā)漫漫旅途呢？別急，人類“冬眠”技術(shù)讓你一覺睡到目的地。
小題1:推斷題。根據(jù)短文第三段內(nèi)容可以推出人類“冬眠”技術(shù)已經(jīng)取得了進(jìn)展。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)短文第四段的最后一句they would need less energy可知。
小題3:推斷題。根據(jù)短文最后一段的第一句話中could一詞的委婉語氣可知。
小題4:主旨題。認(rèn)真分析原文可知，本文自始至終介紹的是在星際探索中使用冬眠技術(shù)的研究情況，因此以Hibernation Study For Space Travel為題既具有高度的概括性、強(qiáng)烈的針對性，又具有一定的醒目性。
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