2015年高二英语课时作业：Unit3SectionⅢ（Word版含答案）（新人教版选修八）.docVIP

Ⅰ.阅读理解 A A solar-powered airplane designed to fly day and night without fuel successfully made its first test flight above the Swiss countryside in April 2010.The Solar Impulse，which has 12，000 solar batteries built into its wings，is a prototype(雏形)for an aircraft intended to fly around the world without fuel in 2012.(滑翔) for 87 minutes above western Switzerland at an altitude of 1ything went as it should，”Scherdel said after landing.It’s made of carbon fiber(碳纤维) a distance of 350 metres，one metre above the runway of a military airbase near Zurich.The propeller(螺旋桨) plane is powered by four electric motors and designed to fly day and night by saving energy from its solar cells in high-performance batteries.It is eventually expected to attain an average flying speed of 70 km per hour and reach a highest altitude of 8，500 metres. Bertrand Piccard，one of the Swiss pilots behind the project，is best known for completing the first non-stop，round-the-world flight in a hot-air balloon in March 1999.The other main pilot，Swiss engineer Andre Borschberg，has described it as “ten times lighter than the very best glider”．“Such a large wing length for so little weight is something completely new in the plane family，”he said. The project’s budget is 100 million Swiss francs，80 million francs of which has been secured from sponsors.Belgian chemical company Solvay，Swiss watchmaker Omega，and German banking giant Deutsche Bank，are the three main sponsors.Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne，one of the two Swiss federal polytechnical universities，acts as a scientific advisor. 【语篇解读】　本文介绍了一种新型太阳能飞机。entally friendly airplane. B．It can fly only if the sun is shining brightly. C．It is the first lightest aircraft that can be widely used. D．It is hoped to fly at an altitude of 1，200 metres in the future. 解析：选A。根据第一段的“A solar-powered airplane designed to fly day and night without fuel successfully made its first test flight...”可知这架太阳能飞机是环保型的。故选A项。________．an hold enough solar batterie