| It looked just like another aircraft
from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964.
But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who
boarded the aircraft were in for the flight of their lives. Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded(填塞) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back, where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear. For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducte A. It had no seats. B. It was painted white. C. It had no windows. D. The outside was misleading. [填空题]Modern office workers are just like fighter pilots in that both need to monitor data of great complexity.
[填空题]Passage Twelve
Just like children, deer often cross British roads to get to the other side. But the cost is the deer’s life. At night, (1) cars hit and kill the animals. Now foresters are using natural animal (2) to prevent dangerous crossings. In England, the British Forestry Commission has (3) thousands of glowing red "wolf eyes" along woodland roads. The eyes are actually reflectors (反射镜), (4) bars like the red reflectors on your bike. The ten-centimeter long bars are fixed on top of posts, with only these signs directed towards the woods rather than the roads. When cars speed by, light rays from car headlights reflect offthe reflectors’ shining surface and (5) into the woods. Deer are instantly (6) by the wolf eyes-even though wolves haven’t (7) deer in Britain or even lived there for a hundred years! Scientists think the glowing light (8) the "eye sh [填空题]Just like fatigue and weakness, depression is one symptom of ______.
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