题型：阅读选择 题类： 难易度：普通
四川省绵阳市游仙区2024-2025学年九年级上学期开学考试英语试题
It was the final（决赛） of the national high school basketball game. For the first time in their history，a team from a small town faced last year's best team. The players thought they couldn't win and wanted to give up. Seeing this，the coach told them a story.
Peter was a woodcutter. He was afraid he would fall ill and die. His wife told him that as long as his hands and feet were warm，he wasn't dead.
One day，Peter went out to cut down trees. It was snowy and cold. After finishing his work，he noticed that his hands and feet were completely frozen. He thought he was dead，so he stopped working and lay down on the ground.
After Peter had been lying for a while, some wolves came over. They ate all the food in Peter's food bag. The wolves then noticed Peter lying quietly on the ground. They were getting closer to Peter. Peter thought， "If I weren't dead，I would kill you all. " When the wolves saw Peter doing nothing，they ate him.
As the coach finished the story，the players talked about how silly Peter was. At the same time，they realized what their coach wanted them to understand：the opposing（竞争的） team was like the wolves，and they were like the woodcutter. They should fight till the end，whether they were "alive" or "dead".
Now, let me tell you more about astronauts. More than 500 people have been in space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin. He flew into space in 1961. His spaceship was just big enough for one person. John Glenn went to space again in 1998 at the age of 77. He was the oldest man to fly in space. Space isn't just for men. The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova. The first moon landing was made by Neil Armstrong in 1969. He said, "One small step for a man, one giant leap (跨越) for mankind."
| Yang Liwei became the first Chinese man in space in 2003. He circled the earth 14 times, all within 21 hours, 22 minutes and 45 seconds. "A small step in space is a huge one," and Zhai Zhigang did Chinese astronaut's first spacewalk in 2008. He stayed over 20 minutes in outer space. "Women hold half the sky." Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space in 2012. China is going to make its first moon landing in 2030. |
Would you like to be an astronaut when you finish school? First, you must be healthy. Then you have to take tests. After. you pass the tests, you are still not an astronaut. You need more training(训练) for new skills. There are many jobs to do in space. An astronaut must be ready for anything.
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