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Space exploration has always been the province of dreamers: The human imagin
Space exploration has always been the province of dreamers: The human imagin
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2024-04-27
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Space exploration has always been the province of dreamers: The human imagination readily soars where human ingenuity(创造力)struggles to follow. A Voyage to the Moon, often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.
In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decade’s end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality. They resonated(共鸣)with optimism and ambition in much the same way as the most famous dream speech of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. two years later. By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete results and transformed American society. And yet in many ways the two dreams ended up at odds with each other. The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic(讲求实用的)and immediate in its impact. The urge to explore space is just the opposite. It is figuratively and literally otherworldly in its aims.
When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out. There was no grand follow-up to the Apollo missions. The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no successor. The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth. Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury as if saving one-thousandth of a single year’s budget would solve our problems.
But human ingenuity struggles on. NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck. They will serve as modern Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public. Private spaceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years. Another decade or two and it could go mainstream.
The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us —not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other. Both Martin Luther King and John Kennedy appealed to the idea that humans can transcend what were once considered inherent limitations. Today we face seeming challenges in energy, the environment, health care. Tomorrow we will transcend these as well, and the dreamers will deserve a lot of the credit. The more evidence we collect that our species is capable of greatness, the more we will actually achieve it. [br] What does the author think of the problems facing human beings?
选项
A、They pose a serious challenge to future human existence.
B、They can be solved sooner or later with human ingenuity.
C、Their solutions need joint efforts of the public and private sectors.
D、They can only be solved by people with optimism and ambition.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。第五段第三句提到。我们现在正面临着能源、环境、医疗保健方面的各种所谓的挑战,第四句中作者表明了自己的态度,将来我们同样也会超越这些挑战。梦想家们也必然获得相应的赞誉。第五句中进一步强调我们要认识到人类的伟大,并且人类将会变得越来越伟大。由此可见。对于人们现在面临的各种问题,作者认为是可以超越的,换句话说,这些问题迟早是能够得到解决的。由此确定B)为本题的答案。
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