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上半场阅读第三篇
第三篇文章与2004年9月S2第四篇文章非常相似。但是这两篇文章虽然题材类似（科技大类，航空航天类题材），但是今年这篇的考点却非常简单（考察的全部是factual information）！下面，让我们来看看原文，选自newscientist ,全文868字）
LIKE the space telescope he championed, astronomer Lyman Spitzer faced some perilous moments in his career. Most notably, on a July day in 1945, he happened to be in the Empire State building when a B-25 Mitchell bomber lost its way in fog and crashed into the skyscraper 14 floors above him. Seeing debris falling past the window, his curiosity got the better of him, as Robert Zimmerman recounts in his Hubble history, The Universe in a Mirror. Spitzer tried to poke his head out the window to see what was going on, but others quickly convinced him it was too dangerous.
开头讲了一则趣闻，可以直接跳过，以第二段首句的转折作为文章的第一个重点。下面的第一个题目即有关这则趣闻说明的问题。关于答案，我们要读完第二段的大致结构才会清楚。
Spitzer was not the first astronomer to dream of sending a telescope above the distorting effects of the atmosphere, but it was his tireless advocacy, in part, that led NASA to launch the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. Initially jubilant, astronomers were soon horrified to discover that Hubble's 2.4-metre main mirror had been ground to the wrong shape. Although it was only off by 2.2 micrometres, this badly blurred the telescope's vision and made the scientists who had promised the world new images and science in exchange for $1.5 billion of public money the butt of jokes. The fiasco, inevitably dubbed "Hubble Trouble" by the press, wasn't helped when even the limited science the crippled Hubble could do was threatened as its gyroscopes, needed to control the orientation of the telescope, started to fail one by one.
第二段中，有一对颇有深意的文字：initially jubilant…The fiasco 从中我们可以看出本文的话题是哈勃望远镜，文章主题是通过第一段的例证反映出来的，科学家们艰苦探索不畏艰难的精神。
By 1993, as NASA prepared to launch a rescue mission, the situation looked bleak. The telescope "probably wouldn't have gone on for more than a year or two" without repairs, says John Grunsfeld, an astronaut who flew on the most recent Hubble servicing mission. Happily, the rescue mission was a success. Shuttle astronauts installed new instruments that corrected for the flawed mirror, and replaced the gyroscopes. Two years later, Hubble gave us the deepest ever view of the universe, peering back to an era just 1 billion years after the big bang to see the primordial building blocks that aggregated to form galaxies like our own.
