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上海名校2021年高二下试卷精选汇编——01. 语法专题 2021年第二学期格致中学第一次测验高二年级英语试卷 Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. SpaceX: Doing the Impossible ... Again! BANG! An earth-shattering boom, a ball of flame, and debris (残骸) everywhere. This describes the launch of SpaceX’s newest rocket. You might take it for granted that I am referring to their launch on May 30, when millions around the world watched them send NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley into space. It was the first time such an event (21)_________(occur) on American soil in almost ten years. About 19 hours later, the spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station. I myself did not stay up late for the live event, but when I got up the next morning, I (22)_________hardly wait to watch the video online. Admittedly, it was no less exciting. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, the same site where Apollo 11 was carried out — the mission that landed humans on the Moon for the first time. In fact, the object I described at the beginning was the fourth prototype of SpaceX’s Starship. It claims to be the next-generation spaceship,(23) ______ that is designed to take the place of the Falcon 9 and will be able to carry both crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond. On May 29 — yes, just one day before the milestone NASA launch, this prototype blew up during a ground test in Texas. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, described it as a “rapid unscheduled disassembly (解体).” You would probably assume that NASA would immediately stop all cooperation with SpaceX after this explosion. However, destroying a test rocket is business as usual for Musk’s company. It is also the reason why they (24)_________ (be) able to make so much progress in l