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What’s the real meaning of the word “peace(和平,安宁)”? The   1 _ story may tell us something about it .

There was once a king who offered an award to an artist who could paint the   picture of peace .  _3  tried . The  king  looked at  all  the pictures .But there were only  two  he  really  liked  and  he had  to choose between the two .

One picture was a calm  lake .The lake was a perfect thing for peace  _4__ of the high  mountains  around it .Overhead was  a  blue sky with clouds .Anyone who saw this picture thought that  it was  a perfect picture of peace.

The other picture had mountains too . But they were rugged(高低不平) .Above was the dark sky, from which heavy rain fell . A waterfall was rushing down the side of the mountain . This did not look peaceful at all . But  when the king look __5__  ,he found behind the waterfall a very small bush  _6__ in  the middle of the waterfall and a mother bird sitting on her nest in perfect peace .

The king gave the award to the artist who  painted the __7_ picture . Why?

“because” , explained the king. “ peace doesn’t mean  __8_  in a place where there is no__9__ , no trouble or hard work” . Peace 10 in the midst of all those things, you’re still calm in you heart .This is the real meaning of peace.

答案

小题1:following 

小题2:best 

小题3:Many 

小题4:because

小题5:closely

小题6:growing 

小题7:second 

小题8:being

小题9:noise

小题10:means

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空,使短文通顺正确连贯,注意时态和人称。

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The marvelous telephone and television network that has now enmeshed the whole world, making all men neighbors, cannot be extended into space. It will never be possible to converse with anyone on another planet. Even with today’s radio equipment, the messages will take minutes—sometimes hours—on their journey, because radio and light waves travel at the same limited speed of 186, 000 miles a second.

Twenty years from now you will be able to listen to a friend on Mars, but the words you hear will have left his mouth at least three minutes earlier, and your reply will take a corresponding time to reach him. In such circumstances, an exchange of verbal messages is possible—but not a conversation.

To a culture which has come to take instantaneous communication for granted, as part of the very structure of civilized life, this "time barrier" may have a profound psychological impact. It will be a perpetual reminder of universal laws and limitations against which not all our technology can ever prevail. For it seems as certain as anything can be that no signal--still less any material object—can ever travel faster than light.

The velocity of light is the ultimate speed limit, being part of the very, structure of space and time. Within the narrow confines of the solar system, it will not handicap us too severely. At the worst, these will amount to twenty hours—the time it takes a radio signal to span the orbit of Pluto, the outer-most planet.

It is when we move out beyond the confines of the solar system that we come face to face with an altogether new order of cosmic reality. Even today, many otherwise educated men—like those savages who can count to three but lump together all numbers beyond four—cannot grasp the profound distinction between solar and stellar space. The first is the space enclosing our neighboring worlds, the planets; the second is that which embraces those distant suns, the stars, and it is literally millions of times greater. There is no such abrupt change of scale in the terrestrial affairs.

Many conservative scientists, appalled by these cosmic gulfs, have denied that they can ever be crossed. Some people never learn ; those who sixty years ago scoffed at the possibility of flight, and ten years ago laughed at the idea of travel to the planets, are now quite sure that the stars will always be beyond our reach. And again they are wrong, for they have failed to grasp the great lesson of our age— that if something is possible in theory, and no fundamental scientific laws oppose its realization, then sooner or later it will be achieved.

One day we shall discover a really efficient means of propelling our space vehicles. Every technical device is always developed to its limit and the ultimate speed for spaceships is the velocity of light. They will never reach that goal, but they will get very near it. And then the nearest star will be less than five years voyaging from the earth.

The author of the passage intends to show()

A. the limitations of our technology

B. the vastness of the cosmic reality

C. the prospect of planetary travel

D. the psychological impact of time and space