Life in Outer Space

Chinese taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu carried out the Shenzhou-13 spaceflight mission （任务） that started on Oct. 15, 2021. This mission lasts 6 months, which was also a national record. Zhai is the commander （指令长） who performed China’s first spacewalk in the Shenzhou-7 mission in 2008. Wang, who was in the Shenzhou-10 mission in 2013, is the first Chinese woman astronaut to visit China’s space station. Ye is a new comer to space.

The trio had carried out two spacewalks and completed more than 20 scientific tasks. Besides their tasks, they had also given two live lectures from the space station, showing the students their living and working areas at the Tianhe core module and several scientific experiments under zero-gravity conditions and answering real-time questions from students.

The trio also became the first Chinese to spend the nation’s most important festival — the Chinese Lunar New Year — in outer space.

They returned to Earth on April 16, 2022 and made Shenzhou-13 mission a great success.

阅读以上新闻稿，根据其内容回答其后各个小题。

（1）How long was the mission that was carried out by the taikonauts?

A．

13 months.

B．

10 months.

C．

7 months.

D．

6 months.

（2）What does the underlined “ trio ” probably mean?

A．

A group of two.

B．

A group of three.

C．

A group of four.

D．

A group of five.

（3）Which paragraph tells us what the taikonauts had mainly done in this mission in space?

A．

Paragraph 1.

B．

Paragraph 2.

C．

Paragraph 3.

D．

Paragraph 4.

（4）What would be the most suitable to replace ＿＿＿＿＿ in the picture?

A．	Commander Zhai held a pair of couplets and wished the Chinese people good health.
B．	Wang, with a red balloon in hand, wished children across the country healthy growth.
C．	Ye held a sticker with the Chinese character “ fu, ” and wished the Chinese people a happy Lunar New Year.
D．	The taikonauts have put up red lanterns, Chinese knots and paper-cut craft to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

（5）Which of the following is NOT true?

A．	All the three taikonauts had been to the space before.	B．	Zhai Zhigang is a commander.
C．	The trio gave two live lectures from the space station.	D．	They returned to earth in mid-April.