快捷英语 英语时文阅读理解 七年级 30
Saturday/Week 15
阅读短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词
的正确形式。
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▸题型:短文填空
▸主题:科技发展
▸语篇类型:记叙文
▸词数:162
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▸建议用时:8分钟
ussia plans to start its Venera-D mission

to revisit Venus before 2036. And they are

preparing 1 the work.
The mission is now part of the 2 (country) new space program.
Oleg Korablev, head of the Department of Planetary Physics at IKI RAS, says the preliminary design
work on the mission ______ 3 ______ (begin) in January 2026. It will coincide (同时进行) with the start of the
4 (nation) space project.
Korablev said the 5 (one) planning stage will take about two years. His team is now working
with 6 Russian space company called the Lavochkin Association. They have had many meetings to
help the work go 7 (good).
The scientist noted that the team will make a 8 (decide) on the mission's starting date after
the design stage is complete. "But it will surely take place no 9 (late) than 2036," he said.
The Venera-D mission is planned to include a lander, a balloon probe, 10 an orbital spacecraft.
Earlier this year, IKI's scientist Lev Zeleny said the launch is unlikely before 2034 or 2035.
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10

1. for prepare for意为“为……做准备”，固定搭配。
2. country’s 用名词所有格作定语，修饰名词。
3. will begin 由时间状语in January 2026可知，用一般将来时。
4. national 用形容词修饰名词。
5. first 由语境可知，此处用序数词，表示“最先的”。
6. a 表示“一个……公司”，用不定冠词。Russian以辅音音素开头，用不定冠词a。
7. well 用副词修饰动词。
8. decision 由空格前的a可知，此处用名词。decision意为“决定”。
9. later 由空格后的than可知，用副词的比较级。
10. and a lander、a balloon probe和an orbital spacecraft之间为并列关系，用and连接。