2022年中考英语最新热点阅读04 神州13号（含答案）.pdfVIP

2022年中考英语最新热点时文阅读．神州13号 (2022· China lal』nched the manned spaceship SbenzhOl』－ 13, sending three ast:Jonauts to ils Tiangong space station. About 6.5 hours after the lam】饨， the spaceship successfully docked （对接） with the Tianhe core module of th巳 station. The three - person team is 1he second crew （工作组） Lo !have entered Tiangong. The team is led by China’s first spacewalker Zhai Zhigang. The other two astronauts are Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu. They ’ will live and work together at the station for six months. This will be China s longest-ever manned mission. During th巳ir six-month stay， 由e crew will carry out a number of tasks. For example, they will do 队νo to three spacewalks to fix eqltipm巳nt in preparation for future construction work.矶但通ng Yaping, the first Chines巳 woman Lo perform spacewalk, said “Apart from the tasks, we also hope to do more space science education. This wiJI bring space closer to th巳 general public. As a result, they wiJI learn more about the astronauts’ life in space.” ’ Shenzhou-13 was China s last major space mission in 202 I. Another six missions are planned for this year to finish the construction of the space station. Once its completed, Taogong will be about one-fifth lhe size of the lnternaion.al Space Station (lSS). The !SS will reach the 巳nd of its life in 2024. Tangong 的likely to be the only operational near-Earth orbit （近！lh轨道） space station by then. China looks forward to hosting astronauts from other countries. Denis Simon, at Duke Law in the US, told Xinhua that China ’s success in space continues to be impressive （令人赞叹的）． “It is now well on is way to