2018年6月16日大学英语四级听力原文及详解_第3页

　　News Report 3

　　The first private mission outside of the earth orbit is closed to many of our think. U.S. government officials outset to approve a mission by privately held space company-Moon Express to travel outside of the earth orbit in late 2017. Moon express’s mission involves plans to land a suitcase size package of scientific equipment on the moon for on-going exploration on commercial development. The decision involved amounts of lobbying and coordinative conversations between a number of factual agencies. On the international treaties ,US is responsible for the cargo of both public and private space craft .This makes commercial space travel a complex legal issue not just domestically but abroad . A Moon Express representative declined to comment on the story. But noted that the company is very optimistic about its proposal. Moon express is not the only company seeking for the right to travel to outspace . Elon Musk’s space X aims to send an manned aircraft to Mars by 2018

　　5. What is the news report mainly about?

　　6. What is the Moon Express planning to do?

　　7. what does Moon Express think of its mission?

　　主旨内容：

　　Moon Express(月球捷运)是一家美国公司，长期目标是在月球采矿，是民间探月计划 。它的目的和任务是使一个手提箱大小的科学设备着陆月球，并进行商业开发的持续探索。该公司对自己的计划十分乐观。

　　1. The first private mission outside of the earth orbit is closed than many of our think.

　　2. Moon Express’s mission involves plans to land a suitcase size package of scientific equipment on the moon for on-going exploration on commercial development.

　　3. But noted that the company is very optimistic about it’s proposal.

　　解析：

　　本篇相对来说，是三篇新闻中考生最不熟悉的话题，因此难度大于前两篇，但是答案出题点并不难，第一题为主旨题，答案出现在开头第一句导语部分，后面两题细节题，关注重点提示，如“but”词后给正确答案。