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2023年兰州市城关区考研《英语一》预测试卷 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) My brother and I were in Orlando Florida to witness our first Space Shuttle Launch. The Discovery was 1 to soar at 10:14 AM on a blue sky September day. I’d seen it 2 so many times on television, 3 now I was only minutes away from seeing it launch. And it’s the final demonstration of the 4 of success: Success Takes Off Like a Rocket. Witnessing the Take Off: Standing close to the Space Shuttle 5 home one unforgettable point—the Shuttle is the height of a 15-story building—it 6 4.5 million pounds—and NASA is trying to lift it 200 miles off the ground. On TV the accomplishments look so much 7 , so much easier. Crowds of people are standing around with you to watch the Shuttle go. The countdown begins through the small 8 of hundreds of portable radios all tuned to the NASA station. It’s enough to get your heart beating 9 When time is up, the side booster rockets are lit up and the eight explosive bolts 10 The first things you see are large white 11 clouds exploding away. Through the steam, you see the fire power. Then the Space Shuttle begins to inch off the pad and climb its way 12 Thousands upon millions of pounds of 13 can hardly lift the shuttle at all. But with ever increasing ease, the shuttle picks up and roars into the sky, headed into space attaining a 14 of over 17,000 mph. It is within the first two minutes to launch the Space Shuttle that the great success lesson is 15 Fact: 85% of the shuttle’s fuel is consumed within the first 2 minutes just to get the 15-story super structure to its orbital 16 And that’s exactly how success 17 : The first steps you take towards launching a successful career are the 18 and will require an enormous consumption of energy—a great big push. However, 19 you persi