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    Making beers on the moon might seem like a pipe dream to many, but for a group of students from the University of California at San Diego, there is a chance to take their research beyond Earth’s surface.

The Lab2Moon competition, held by TeamIndus, is offering students the chance to secure a spot on the TeamIndus rocket this year.

Taking craft beer to the next level, the students want to test whether it’s possible for yeast(酵母) to work and create beer on the moon. However, they believe the experiment is not just a creative concept for astronauts, it’s also important for the development of drugs and yeast-containing food, like bread.

“The idea started out with a few laughs among a group of friends,” said Neeki Ashari, a fifth-year bioengineering students at UC San Diego. “We all appreciate the craft beer. When we heard that there was an opportunity to design an experiment that would go up on India’s moonlander, w e thought we could combine our hobby with the competition by focusing on the practicality of yeast in outer space.”

The preparation work for the beer — up to the stage of adding yeast — will all be done on Earth, and rather than separating the fermentation ( 發酵) and carbonation stage of making beer, the team plans to combine them.

This removes the need to release CO2 accumulated in the process, which may result in cleanliness and safety issues out in space.

If selected, Team Original Gravity will be the first to make beer in outer space, and the fermentation will take place in a container no bigger than a soda can.

All teams competing for the place will showcase their ideas in Bangalore, India, in March.

Sadly, you won’t be enjoying moon beer in your local craft beer bar anytime soon, as no samples will be brought back. However, this small experiment could provide important data on just how practical it is for us to make and create our own resources on other planets and moons by learning how consumables (消耗品) behave in different environments.

100．How did the students feel when they got the chance to design the experiment ?

A．Excited.                                                    B．Nervous.

C．Confident.                                                 D．Casual.

101．What does the underlined word “This” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A．The mixing of two stages.                           B．Adding yeast on Earth.

C．The preparation work on Earth.                   D．Fermentation and carbonation.

102．What can we learn about the experiment from the passage?

A．It has been designed based on similar experiments.

B．It’s quite competitive compared with other designs.

C．It’s design has already been approved by TeamIndus.

D．Its process was adapted to make it safer and greener.

103．What does the author think of the students ’ idea?

A．It seems like a pipe dream.                          B．It’s extremely complicated.

C．It’s meaningful and hopeful.                        D．It’s creative but impractical.

【回答】

100．A

101．A

102．D

103．C

【分析】

這是一篇夾敍夾議的文章。文章主要講了對許多人來説，在月球上釀造啤酒似乎是天方夜譚，但對於一羣來自加州大學聖地亞哥分校的學生來説，這是一個將他們的研究帶出地球表面的機會。

100．推理判斷題。根據第一段Making beers on the moon might seem like a pipe dream to many, but for a group of students from the University of California at San Diego, there is a chance to take their research beyond Earth’s surface.（對許多人來説，在月球上釀造啤酒似乎是天方夜譚，但對於一羣來自加州大學聖地亞哥分校的學生來説，這是一個將他們的研究帶出地球表面的機會。）由此推斷出，當學生們有機會設計實驗時，他們感覺很興奮，故選A。

101．詞義猜測題。根據上文The preparation work for the beer — up to the stage of adding yeast — will all be done on Earth, and rather than separating the fermentation ( 發酵) and carbonation stage of making beer, the team plans to combine them.可知，啤酒的準備工作——直到添加酵母的階段——都將在地球上完成，而不是將釀造啤酒的發酵和碳*化階段分開，團隊計劃將它們結合起來。所以通過上下文的語境可以判斷出。“This”指的是兩個過程的混合，故選A。

102．推理判斷題。根據倒數第四段This removes the need to release CO2 accumulated in the process, which may result in cleanliness and safety issues out in space.（這消除了釋放過程中積累的二氧化碳的需要，這可能會導致清潔和安全問題。）由此推斷出，我們能從文章中瞭解到這次實驗的生產過程經過了調整，使其更安全、更環保，故選D。

103．推理判斷題。根據最後一段However, this small experiment could provide important data on just how practical it is for us to make and create our own resources on other planets and moons by learning how consumables (消耗品) behave in different environments.（然而，通過了解消耗品在不同環境中的行為，這個小實驗可以為我們提供重要的數據，告訴我們在其他行星和衞星上製造和創造我們自己的資源有多實際。）由此推斷出，作者認為這些學生的想法有意義和充滿希望，故選C。

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