News Report 3

　　The first private mission outside of the earth orbit is closed to many of our think. U.S. government officials outset to approve a mission by privately held space company-Moon Express to travel outside of the earth orbit in late 2017. Moon express’s mission involves plans to land a suitcase size package of scientific equipment on the moon for on-going exploration on commercial development. The decision involved amounts of lobbying and coordinative conversations between a number of factual agencies. On the international treaties ,US is responsible for the cargo of both public and private space craft .This makes commercial space travel a complex legal issue not just domestically but abroad . A Moon Express representative declined to comment on the story. But noted that the company is very optimistic about its proposal. Moon express is not the only company seeking for the right to travel to outspace . Elon Musk’s space X aims to send an manned aircraft to Mars by 2018

　　5. What is the news report mainly about?

　　6. What is the Moon Express planning to do?

　　7. what does Moon Express think of its mission?

　　主旨內(nèi)容：

　　Moon Express(月球捷運)是一家美國公司，長期目標是在月球采礦，是民間探月計劃 。它的目的和任務是使一個手提箱大小的科學設備著陸月球，并進行商業(yè)開發(fā)的持續(xù)探索。該公司對自己的計劃十分樂觀。

　　1. The first private mission outside of the earth orbit is closed than many of our think.

　　2. Moon Express’s mission involves plans to land a suitcase size package of scientific equipment on the moon for on-going exploration on commercial development.

　　3. But noted that the company is very optimistic about it’s proposal.

　　解析：

　　本篇相對來說，是三篇新聞中考生最不熟悉的話題，因此難度大于前兩篇，但是答案出題點并不難，第一題為主旨題，答案出現(xiàn)在開頭第一句導語部分，后面兩題細節(jié)題，關(guān)注重點提示，如“but”詞后給正確答案。