广东省广州市中考英语真题试卷及解析一、语法选择(共 1 小题;每题 15 分,共 15 分)读下面短文,按照句子构造的语法性和上下文连贯的规定,从所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项
The first astronautsSince the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets
Today people use modern machines 1 at the sky
This is very different from the situation 2 years ago when people could only use their eyes
Perhaps they dreamed of 3 the universe
When did humans first go into space
The story began not so very long ago, 4 the first astronauts were not peoplethey were animals
﹣Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as 5 as possible for humans
So they decided to experiment with animals and test 6 in spaceflights
Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals 7 first went into space
Many of them 8 , but they helped to make space trav