2024年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试模拟试题英语一衡水金卷先享题分科综合卷正在持续更新，本期2024衡中同卷单元卷答案网为大家整理了相关试题及答案，供大家查缺补漏，高效提升成绩。 31.What does Stephen Taylor mean?A.Dogs and e-noses could work together.B.Search-and-rescue dogs will retire soon.C.E-noses are more reliable than noses of dogs.D.Dogs are better at finding out trapped people.DAn astronaut crew of private citizens has been launched to the InternationalSpace Station(ISS).The launch happened in Florida's Kennedy Space Center.Theflight is the first to be organized and operated by a private company involving acompletely commercial astronaut crew.The four-member team will travel to the ISs inside a spacecraft built byAmerican company SpaceX.The crew members are from the private companyAxiom Space based in Houston,Texas.The group is led by retired NASA astronautMichael Lopez-Alegria.The mission is called Ax-1.Lopez-Alegria will be joined bythe mission pilot,Larry Conner,a businessman and private pilot from Ohio.Theother members of the crew are Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy,aCanadian businessman.Stibbe and Pathy will serve as mission specialistsNASA says it will cooperate with Axiom mission officials to plan joint activitiesinvolving the Axiom team and regular ISS crew members.Currently,there are threeAmerican astronauts aboard the ISs,along with a German astronaut and threeRussian astronauts.The launch is being praised as a turning point in the latest expansion ofcommercial space activities.Such activities have become known in the industry as thelow-Earth orbit(轨道)economy,or the“LEO economy”.The latest mission's crew might seem similar to private space tourists whorecently took space rides that did not reach orbit.The trips aim to fly privatecitizens to the edge of space and permit them to experience weightlessness andobserve Earth.But Axiom executives(经理，主管领导)say their mission is very different..“Weare not space tourists,Lopez-Alegria says.The Ax-1 team will be carryingequipment and supplies for 26 science and technology experiments.They includeresearch in areas including brain and heart health,cancer and aging.Axiom's co-founder and executive chairman,Kam Ghaffarian,says he saw thelaunch 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 imaginedall the possibilities,all the capabilities,that we're going to be providing in space."32.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.33.Who is the pilot of the mission Ax-1?A.Mark Pathy.B.Larry Conner.C.Eytan Stibbe.D.Michael Lopez-Alegria.英语试题（长那版）第6页（共10页）