D. was a peace-loving man, who hates weapons and all the military actions

　　答案:C

　　解析:文中He was a stage actor at heart有暗示。

　　3

　　The word “cult”in the fourth paragraph probably means

　　A. popular fashion

　　B. lovely and interesting

　　C. of the present time

　　D. bad — tempered dog

　　答案:A

　　解析:从although引导的状语从句可以推断出答案。

　　4

　　On May 27,1995, Reeve __

　　.

　　A. acted out the role of a lawyer in The Bostonians

　　B. fell down during the horse - riding and became paralyzed

　　C. won critical cheers for his performance in Somewhere in Time

　　D. opened the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center

　　答案:B

　　解析:最后一段第一句。

　　Passage 2

　　A historic journey across the Solar System reached its end on Friday as a little probe (探测器) took a big step for human knowledge.

　　The US$3 billion Cassini — Huygens mission (使命), a joint project of NASA and the European and Italian space agencies was launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Saturn, its rings, its moons and its magnetosphere—which surrounds it.

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