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精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 精品 Word 可修改 欢迎下载 核心素养测评十六 Module 4 Sandstorms in Asia Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A China will launch two Mars missions in 2020 and 2028 as four deep space exploration missions are planned before 2030. In December this year, China’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe(空间探测器)will land in Aitken Basin of the lunar south pole region on the far side of the moon, which is a hot spot for scientific and space exploration. The fourth phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program will include four missions before 2030, with a final goal to establish a research station on the Earth’s only natural satellite in the long term. The country will then launch its first Mars probe in 2020, which is expected to orbit, land and put a rover on the Red Planet in 2021, after ten months of flying. The second Mars probe is scheduled for 2028 to bring samples back to the Earth. China will also probe asteroids(小行星) and undertake an exploration mission to the Jupiter System around 2030. Li Guoping, director general of the Department of System Engineering at the China National Space Administration, said, “A new Long March 8 rocket using two 2. 25m-diameter solid-propelled boosters(助推器)is currently being researched and it will be launched in 2020. ” The heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March 9 to be launched in 2028, will exceed 90 meters, and the rocket would have a core stage with a diameter of 10 meters, and be able to carry a payload of 140 tonnes into low-Earth orbit, five times that of the Long March 5, according to Li. He said, “China will strengthen its use of space technology to monitor the global climate and it plans to send into orbit two satellites. The country has also launched a program to study the probability of earthquake occurrence through electromagnetic monitoring. ” Li stated, “China promotes cooperation between government and social capital and will improve government procurement(采购) of commercial aerospace products and services. A new reg