2023版高考英语一轮总复习15Unit4SpaceExploration新人教版必修第三册.pdfVIP

课时质量评价 (十五) 必修第三册 UNIT 4 SPACE EXPLORATION 题型组合练——阅读理解＋七选五＋完形填空＋应用文写作 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A The far side of the moon is a strange and wild region, quite different from the familiar and mostly smooth face we see nightly from our planet. Soon this rough space will have even stranger features: it will be crowded with radio telescopes. Astronomers are planning to make the moons distant side our newest and best window on the cosmic (宇宙的) dark ages, a mysterious era hiding early marks of stars and galaxies. Our universe was not always filled with stars. About 380，000 years after the big bang, the universe cooled, and the first atoms of hydrogen formed. Gigantic hydrogen clouds soon filled the universe. But for a few hundred million years, everything remained dark, without stars. Then came the cosmic dawn: the first stars flickered, galaxies came into existence and slowly the universes large­scale structure took shape. The seeds of this structure must have been present in the dark­age hydrogen clouds, but the era has been impossible to probe using optical (光学的) telescopes — there was no light. And although this hydrogen produced long­wavelength(or low ­ frequency) radio emissions ，radio telescopes on Earth have found it nearly impossible to detect them. Our atmosphere either blocks or disturbs these faint signals; those that get through are drowned out by humanitys radio noise. Scientists have dreamed for decades of studying the cosmic dark ages from the moons far side. Now multiple space agencies plan lunar missions carrying radio ­ wave ­ detecting instruments — s