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  3. One night in the early 1600s Galileo got tired of using the newfangled(新花样的)

One night in the early 1600s Galileo got tired of using the newfangled(新花样的)

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问题     One night in the early 1600s Galileo got tired of using the newfangled(新花样的)telescope to spot ships and pointed it to the heavens instead. Suddenly the moon had mountains. A fleet of moons encircled Jupiter. And people would never again gaze at the night sky in the same way.
    Now astronomers looked 8,000 light-years into the cosmos with the Hubble Space Telescope. Orbiting 370 miles up, above city lights and the rippling atmosphere, Hubble has confirmed the existence of black holes, revealed a gallery of bizarre galaxies, and chronicled the catastrophic(灾难的)explosions of dying stars.
    Not bad for a satellite that in the beginning had something of a catastrophic reputation itself, Hubble was lifted into orbit with great expectation by the space shuttle Discovery in April 1990. Almost immediately it was clear that the primary mirror was misshapen(变形的)—not to the extreme but enough to pull some lace curtains across Hubble’s "window on the universe." The telescope’s true golden age began in December 1993, when the crew of the shuttle Endeavor rode to the rescue.
    With hinged doors and modular(组合式的)parts, Hubble was designed to be serviced in space.
    Like roadside mechanics, the astronauts pulled up to Hubble, opened the hood, and installed replacement parts. They included corrective mirrors that canceled out the existing mirror flaw. In the following months astronomers marveled at razor-sharp views of a universe dizzy with exploding stars and colliding galaxies, stretching off from here to the edge of eternity.
    When you look into space, you are looking back through time. Even at 186,000 miles a second, light requires a measurable amount of time to get from one place to another. Sunlight bounced off the moon requires a second to reach earth, so when you look at the moon, you are actually looking at the moon a second ago. With its unobstructed view, Hubble can look back some 11 billion years—just two billion years or so after the creation of the universe—to see galaxies already forming. These galaxies are speeding away from us. The farther they are, the faster they’re going—the most distant approach the speed of light. In the 1920s astronomer Edwin Hubble came up with a formula that expresses the proportional relationship of distances between clusters of galaxies and the speeds at which they are moving.
    For the rest of us Hubble is simply the greatest tour guide ever. The Eagle Nebula’s towering pillars evoke the same awe as any ancient temple. The violence of Eta Carinae’s explosion is as heart-stopping as the eruption of a volcano. And thanks to Hubble we can begin to register the notion that while earth is our local address, we have an entire universe that we can call home. [br] The astronomers felt that the first images sent back by Hubble after the rescue were _____.
选项 A、extremely clear
B、a bit bewildering
C、infinitely valuable
D、enormously diverse
答案 A
解析 第4段末句中的marveled at razor-sharp views表明天文学家对哈勃望远镜拍回来的图片的清晰度感到很惊讶，由此可见，他们应认同选项A。该句中虽有dizzy一词，但该词在文中表明哈勃望远镜拍回来的照片让科学家们眩目，它没有“使人迷惑”的意思，B不正确；该句末的eternity指的是哈勃望远镜能让科学家看到宇宙的深处，与图片的价值无关，C不正确；哈勃望远镜拍到了星球爆炸和星系撞击的图片，但这与enormously diverse(千变万化)相差还甚远，D错。
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