Ⅰ.阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A (2023·陕西西安高二联考) An astronaut crew of private citizens has been launched to the International Space Station(ISS)．The launch happened in Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.The flight is the first to be organized and operated by a private company involving a completely commercial astronaut crew. The four member team will travel to the ISS inside a spacecraft built by American company SpaceX.The crew members are from the private company Axiom Space based in Houston，Texas.The group is led by retired NASA astronaut Michael Lopez Alegria.The mission is called Ax 1.Lopez Alegria will be joined by the mission pilot，Larry Conner，a businessman and private pilot from Ohio.The other members of the crew are Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy，a Canadian businessman.Stibbe and Pathy will serve as mission specialists. NASA says it will cooperate with Axiom mission officials to plan joint activities involving the Axiom team and regular ISS crew members.Currently，there are three American astronauts aboard the ISS，along with a German astronaut and three Russian astronauts. The launch is being praised as a turning point in the latest expansion of commercial space activities.Such activities have become known in the industry as the low Earth orbit(轨道) economy，or the “LEO economy”． The latest mission’s crew might seem similar to private space tourists who recently took space rides that did not reach orbit.The trips aim to fly private citizens to the edge of space and permit them to experience weightlessness and observe Earth. But Axiom executives(主管领导) say their mission is very different.“We are not space tourists，” Lopez Alegria says.The Ax 1 team will be carrying equipment and supplies for 26 science and technology experiments.They include research in areas including brain and heart health，cancer and aging. Axiom’s co founder and executive chairman，Kam Ghaffarian，says he saw the launch as “the beginning of many beginnings for commercializing low Earth orbit”．He adds：“We’re like in the early days of the Internet，and we haven’t even imagined all the possibilities，all the capabilities that we’re going to be providing in space.” 1．Who have been launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to the ISS A．The four member private astronaut crew. B．The four crew members from SpaceX. C．The four professional astronauts. D．The four private space tourists. 2．Who is the pilot of the mission Ax 1 A．Mark Pathy. B．Larry Conner. C．Eytan Stibbe. D．Michael Lopez Alegria. 3．Why does Lopez Alegria say they were not space tourists A．They will help with the astronauts’ work in the ISS. B．They will experience weightlessness. C．They will do scientific researches in the ISS. D．They will just fly to the edge of space. 4．What does Kam think of the LEO economy A．It is the beginning of space tourism. B．It is just an im ... ...
