首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Rich Americans are willing to take conspicuous consumption to new heights by spending big bucks to fly into space, including pay
Rich Americans are willing to take conspicuous consumption to new heights by spending big bucks to fly into space, including pay
admin
2016-12-06
31
问题
Rich Americans are willing to take conspicuous consumption to new heights by spending big bucks to fly into space, including paying 100,000 for a 15-minute trip into the heavens, according to a poll released on Monday.
Possibly bored by the banal baubles(老套的小玩意)of mundane Mother Earth or inspired by the dashing derring-do of such pioneers as first American in space Alan Shepard and first millionaire in space Dennis Tito, the poll says 7 percent of rich Americans would pay 20 million for a two-week orbital flight and 19 percent would pay 100,000 for 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
The poll by Zogby International was commissioned by Futron Corp., a Maryland aerospace consulting group which has a 1.8 million contract with NASA to explore the commercial applications of space travel, including what space tourism could look like in the next 20 years.
Zogby International conducted telephone interviews with 450 Americans whose yearly incomes exceed 250,000 or whose net worth exceeds 1 million. The polls, conducted in January but only released Monday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent.
Futron’s NASA project program manager Derek Webber said, "We commissioned this survey in order to get an idea of what rich people think and not the man in the street who loves the idea of going into space but can’t afford it."
He added, "We are saying these trips will cost a minimum of 100,000 for a 15-minute trip, which was the amount of time the first American in space, Alan Shepard, had and for that you get to feel space weightlessness and see the world from up there." That trip would take a tourist 50 miles(80 km)into space.
Webber said a surprising 7 percent of the wealthy polled said they would be willing to take a two-week flight to an orbiting space station, paying the 20 million that the Russians charged the two pioneering space tourists who have already made the trip, South African Mark Shuttleworth and American Dennis Tito.
If the price dropped to $50,000, 16 percent of those surveyed would be interested.
Space tourists would have to meet medical standards and only be able to go to the International Space Station.
’N Sync singer Lance Bass is currently undergoing tests to see if he could become the third space tourist. He wants to become the first entertainer in space.
What can we learn about the space tourists from the passage?
选项
A、The first space tourist had a fifteen-minute flight into space.
B、The only two millionaire space tourists are both from the United States.
C、Both the millionaire space tourists visited an orbiting space station.
D、A singer, but not a millionaire, is going to be the third space tourist.
答案
C
解析
倒数第4段中的the two pioneering space tourists who have already made the trip中,the trip指的就是该句开头提到的a two-week flight to an orbiting space station,因此C为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/0CJK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Therehasbeena______lackofcommunicationbetweentheunionandthemanagement.
Fortheadvertisedposition,thecompanyoffersa(n)______salaryandbenefitspackage.
Acompanyhaslaunchedrevolutionarysoftwarefortrackingstolenmobilephonesthatisimpossibletoremovefromthedevice—eve
Acompanyhaslaunchedrevolutionarysoftwarefortrackingstolenmobilephonesthatisimpossibletoremovefromthedevice—eve
He______tenlecturesonAmericanhistory,butheonlygavetwobecauseofhisillness.
Thepolicehaveofferedalarge______forinformationleadingtotherobber’sarrest.
Itwassuggestedthatallgovernmentministersshould______informationontheirfinancialinterests.
Manyanelderlyman______willingtocontinueworkingafterretirementsothattimecanbeeasilykilled.
TheyearsoftheAmericanRevolutionwerea(n)______intheUnitedStateshistory.
Chancesforaquicksettlementofdisputesarebeginningto_____becauseneithersideiswillingtocompromise.
随机试题
下列哪些骨折属于开放性骨折
A.无关节炎,无发热症状B.进行性多发性关节炎C.侵犯单个或4个以内的关节D.无发热症状E.发热为主多关节型类风湿主要表现为()
患者,男,30岁。因低热,食欲减退,肝区疼痛半个月就诊,查体:肝肋下2指轻压痛,检查血清转氨酶升高,HBsAg阳性,确诊为乙型肝炎,家属询问预防乙型肝炎最佳措施是什么,护士的回答正确的是
A.X线钡剂造影:回盲部呈线样征B.X线钡剂造影:回盲部呈跳跃征C.X线钡剂造影:结肠袋消失,呈铅管征D.X线钡剂造影:升结肠呈充盈缺损,肠腔狭窄,肠壁僵硬E.X线钡剂造影:结肠边缘不规则,呈锯齿状溃疡性结肠炎的典型X线表现
有一种含氮的药物,如用红外光谱判断它是否为腈类物质时,主要依据的谱带范围为
关于组织液的说法正确的是
顾某(中国籍)常年居住M国,以丰厚报酬诱使徐某(另案处理)两次回国携带毒品甲基苯丙胺进行贩卖。2014年3月15日15时,徐某在B市某郊区交易时被公安人员当场抓获。侦查中徐某供出了顾某。我方公安机关组成工作组按照与该国司法协助协定赴该国侦查取证,由M国警方
用于公路路基的填料要求强度较高,其中确定其强度要求的指标是()。
下列各项属于当期支付的是( )。Ⅰ.基本工资、奖金、津贴Ⅱ.年红利Ⅲ.年薪Ⅳ.当期可以兑现的福利Ⅴ.股票期权
Stereotypesaretroublesomebecausetheyareoftenindiscriminate,exhibitanallnessorientation,andcanproducefrozenevalu
最新回复
(
0
)