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阅读理解提高训练9 A ? In many stories on TV and in science-fiction books, men travel to faraway stars. They have quick, easy journeys. But so far, men have been able to reach only the earth’s own moon.? Suppose a man wanted to reach a distant star. Even if he traveled his whole life, he would have to move faster than the speed of light. Nothing can move that fast except light itself. ? Strange things happen to an object when it moves rapidly. The object weighs more. An object moving at 86 percent of the speed of light is twice as it is at rest. A stick appears shorter. A clock runs more slowly. A man would not go so fast as he would on the earth.? Light travels more than 186 000 miles a second, or about 11 million miles a minute. In one year, light travels six trillion(万亿)miles. That great distance is called a light-year. It is used to measure distance in space.? The star closest to our sun is Alpha Centauri（半人马）. It is more than four light-years away. If one traveled at the speed of light, he could make a round trip to Alpha Centauri in nine years. But, even at that speed, he could not reach Alcaid in the handle of the Big Dipper. A one-way journey to Alcaid would take almost 200 years! The star closest to our sun is ____.? A. Alcaid??????? B. the Big Dipper?????? C. Alpha Centauri???? D. Rigel2. A one-way journey to Alcaid would take _____.? A. about 9 years?? B. less than 4 years? C. almost 200 years? D. about 4 years3. On the whole, this story is about ____.? A. the problems of traveling to faraway stars? B. the distance between our sun and the other stars? C. what happens when we travel faster than the speed of light? D. about our closest star4. Why do we measure great distances in light-years instead of miles?? A. Units of light-years sound better? B. Using light-years reduces the number of figures used? C. We used to measure distances in light-years long ago? D. Unit of light-ye