人教版（2019）高中英语必修第三册 Unit4_Discovering_Useful_Structures_and_Listening_and_Talking_能力提升练_.docVIP

PAGE 1/ NUMPAGES 8 Unit4 Discovering Useful Structures Listening and Talking 能力提升练 I. 阅读理解 (2019安徽安庆一中第三次模拟，★ ★ ★) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is mostly a desert. However, this has not stopped the country from creating great building projects. On September 6，UAE officials announced another great project—Mars Science City. Vast deserts and miles of coastlines provide plenty of better conditions for safe rocket launches (发射). And its position on the Earth makes it especially fit as the movement of the Earth provides an extra push，meaning less fuel is needed to get rockets into orbit (轨道).All these seem to make it possible. The Mars Science City project，designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, or BIG, will provide a model to simulate (模仿）living on the surface of Mars，the red planet. It is part of the UAE，s Mars 117 Project to lead the global race to land humans on Mars and be the first to build a settlement there. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid，Prime Minister and the ruler of Dubai，says，“ The UAE seeks international support to develop technologies that benefit humans, and get prepared for a better future for more generations to come.” Built outside Dubai, the 1.9 million square feet city is expected to cost $ 115 million. It will consist of several laboratories, similar to the ones imagined for the first Mars settlers. Scientists from around the world will be invited to do research to come up with methods to create food，water and energy, using techniques which can be copied onto the red planet. The living space, where the researchers can live for up to a year，will simulate the planet’s conditions as much as possible. The research city will also include a museum showing famous space achievements to help educate and inspire children to carry on space exploration and discovery. To discover whether the construction method works on Mars，the museum’s walls will be 3D printed with the sand from the nearby desert. Now, if they would only add some living quarters for the gener