【名师伴你行】2016-2017学年高中英语 Unit3 Life in the future单元测评（A卷）新人教版必修5.docVIP

Unit 3 Life in the future [名师原创·基础卷] (时间：90分钟　满分：100分) 第Ⅰ卷 第一部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分18分) 第一节(共4小题；每小题2分，满分8分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。 The plan：turn Mars into a blue world with streams and green fields，and then fill it with creatures from the earth.This idea may sound like something from a science fiction，but it is actually being taken seriously by many researchers. This suggested future for the “red planet” will be the main topic for the discussion at an international conference hosted by NASA this week.Leading researchers as well as science fiction writers will attend the event.It comes as NASA is preparing a multi-billion-dollar Mars research program.“Turning Mars into a little earth has been a topic in science fiction，”said Dr Michael Meyer，NASAs senior scientist for astrobiology (天体生物学)．“Now with scientists exploring the reality，we can ask what the real possibilities of changing Mars are.” Most scientists agree that Mars could be turned into a little earth although much time would be needed to achieve this goal. But many experts are shocked by this idea.“We are destroying our own world at an unbelievable speed and now we are talking about ruining another planet，”said Paul Murdin，of the Institute of Astronomy，Cambridge，UK.Over the past months，scientists have become increasingly confident that they will find Martian life forms. Europe and Americas robot explorers have found proof that water，mixed with soil，exists in large amounts on the planet.In addition，two different groups of scientists announced on March 28 that they had found signs of methane(甲烷) in the Martian atmosphere.The gas is a waste product of living creatures and could be produced by microbes(微生物) living in the red planets soil. But scientists such as Dr Lisa Pratt，a biologist at Indiana University，say that these microbes will be put in danger by the little earth project.“Before we have even discovered if there is life on Mars，we are talking about carrying out projects that would destroy all thes