阅读下面的短文，按要求完成短文后的题目。
One day an Australian farmer, Joe, saw a bright light in the sky. 1 The light came nearer and nearer
and suddenly Joe saw that it was a spaceship .The spaceship landed in a field quickly.
The door of the spaceship opened and two strange beings climbed out. 2 They seemed to be half man
and half bird. Joe was afraid of them. He tried to run away. But the spacemen walked towards him,
picked him up and carried him into the spaceship. They put wires( 电线) from a machine onto his head
and they could speak to him in English.
They asked him some questions about the earth. "We are from Venus," they said, "but it's getting very
hot there .A lot of our people are dying and we don't have much time left. We are trying to find a new
home."
After some time they 3 freed Joe and at last the spaceship took off and could not be seen again. Joe
told his friends about the spaceship, but no one believed his story.
"You'll believe me one day," Joe told them. "The spaceman will come back…"
1. 翻译1 处画线部分的句子。
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2. 不变句意，改写2 处句子。
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3. According to the conversation between Joe and the aliens, what do we know about Venus?
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4. 3处单词的意思是___________.
A. let …go
B. paid no money
C. took away
D. locked
5. 用文中的两个词填空。
(1) Some people ________ in everlasting life after death.
(2) The girls are ________ of going out at night.
