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题型专项-Unit1 阅读理解篇一、阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 1.The year is 1947. Thirteen-year-old Carl Sagan is standing outside a small house in the eastern city of Brooklyn, New York. It is dark. He is looking up at the sky. After a few minutes, he finds the spot for which he has been searching. It is a light red color in the night sky. Carl is looking at the planet Mars. Carl has just finished reading a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs called A Princess of Mars, in which the man who travels to Mars can make the trip by looking at the planet for several minutes. He then is transported there by a strange force. Carl Sagan stands watching the red planet. After a while, young Carl realizes this will not happen. He turns to enter his home. But in his mind he says, “Some day it will be possible to travel to Mars.” It should be no surprise to learn that Carl Sagan studied the stars and planets when he grew older. He did this at the University of Chicago. Later he taught astronomy(天文学) at Harvard University and Cornell University. In the 1950s, Mr. Sagan helped design mechanical devices for use on some of the first space flights. He spent much of his life helping make space travel possible far out in the universe. He died in December, 1996. However, much of the work he did during his life helped make it possible for the American Pathfinder vehicle to land on Mars. It landed on July 4, 1997. It soon began sending back to Earth lots of information and thousands of pictures about the red planet. Carl Sagans family say he would have been extremely happy about the new information from Mars. (1) What did little Carl Sagan intend to do while staring at a light red spot in the sky? A. To become a scientist of Astronomy. B. To be sent to Mars by a strange force. C. To make sure of the position of Mars. D. To decide how to arrive at Mars. (2) It is implied in the last paragraph that ?. A. Carl Sagan didnt have the chance to go to