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2019 中考英语阅读理解金选（四） 第一篇 （2019 中考选练） What a father had done now has been redone by his son. US video game magnate(大 亨) Richard Garriott headed into space aboard a Russian rocket watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War. The Russian Soyuz TMA13 spacecraft lifted off in clear weather from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe(大草原) just after 1 pm local time. A video game developer from Texas, Garriott paid $ 30 million to fly into space alongside US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov. Garriotts father, Owen, watched the launch through telescopes on an observation platform and Garrio s girlfriend, Kelly Miller, burs into tears. “Iam very happy for him. It is one of the things he really wanted to do，” Miller said as others opened champagne to celebrate the successful launch. “I can see he is really enjoying it like a li le kid in the candy shop , ” Miller said. Space officials said the Soyuz rocket had reached orbisafely and would dock with the International Space Station (ISS) in about two days. “He made it; he made it into orbit. It is marvelous，” said Owen Garrio , a physicist who was selected as anastronaut by NASA for his scientificbackground. He spent 60 days in space in 1973 and another 10 days in 1983. After 12 days in space Garriott will return to earth with the ISSs former crew on Soyuz , a three person reentry capsule(返回舱) which has broken down on its last two flights back to earth. 1. Who are the passengers except Richard Garriott in the spacecraft? ①Owen Garriott ②Michael Fincke ③Yury Lonchakov ④Kelly Miller A．①② B．②③ C．③④ D．①④ 2. What was the reason for Richard Garriotts space travel? 1 A. His father used to be an excel