[单项选择]When Mike Kelly first set out to build his own private space-ferry service, he figures his bread-and-butter business would be lofting satellite into high earth orbit. Now he thinks he may have figured wrong, "People were always asking me when they could go," says Kelly, who runs Kelly Space Technology, "I realized the real market is in space tourism."How much is the 2-hour space tour for each person according to Space Adventures in Arlington
[A] $1 million. [C] $98,000.
[B] $10,000. [D] $22,000.

[单项选择]When Mike Kelly first set out to build his own private space-ferry service, he figures his bread-and-butter business would be lofting satellite into high earth orbit. Now he thinks he may have figured wrong. "People were always asking me when they could go," says Kelly, who runs Kelly Space Technology, "I realized the real market is in space tourism."Which of the following is the best title for the passage
[A] Take Vacations in Space [C] Flight Regulations in Space Travels
[B] Building Hotels in Space [D] Cost of Space Traveling

[填空题]When did the man set up his own company

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When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was unrealistic. Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.
On April 23, 2004, Holonyak received the $500, 000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington. This marks the 10th year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors. "Anytime you get an award big or little. It’s always a surprise." Holonyrak said. Holonyak, 75, was a student of John Bardeen, an inventor of the transistor, in the early 1950s. After graduate school, Holonyak worked at Ben Labs. He later went to General Electric, where he invented a switch now widely
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

[判断题]Mike goes to his local branch library finding information through the Internet instead of using an encyclopedia.

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My friend Mike was shaking his head in disbelief. "That young woman who just waited on me," he said, pointing to an employee of the fast food restaurant where we were eating, "had to call someone over to help her count the change. The cash register (出纳机) showed her I need 99 cents, but she couldn’t figure out how to count out the coins." I understood Mike’s concern. What we have done in this country, although unintentionally, is to create several generations of individuals most of whom have no idea how to reason, how to do simple math, how to do research, or finally how to be creative. The reason for this is our overuse of information technology: video games, television, digital watches, calculators, and computers. Information technology feeds us information without requiring us to think about it and let us perform operations without understanding them.
It is time for us to take a hard look at an educational system that only teaches our chi
A. be born with talents
B. be taught to read the right books
C. be dragged away from machines
D. have a large vocabulary