【人教版】2018版高考一轮模拟演练：1-3-4a必修3Unit 4　Astronomy the science of the stars.docVIP

Ⅰ.阅读理解(建议用时16′) A [2017·复旦附中高三检测]Space exploration has always been the province of dreamers: The human imagination readily soars while human ingenuity (创造力) struggles to follow. A Voyage to the Moon, often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly. In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decades end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality. They resonated with optimism and ambition in much the same