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It looked just like another aircraft from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964. But appear

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问题     It looked just like another aircraft from the outside. The pilot told his young passengers that it was built in 1964. But appearances were deceptive, and the 13 students from Europe and the USA who boarded the aircraft, were in for the flight of their lives.
    Inside, the area that normally had seats had become a long white tunnel. Heavily padded (填满) from floor to ceiling, it looked a bit strange. There were almost no windows, but lights along the padded walls illuminated it. Most of the seats had been taken out, apart from a few at the back where the young scientists quickly took their places with a look of fear.
    For 12 months, science students from across the continents had competed to win a place on the flight at the invitation of the European Space Agency. The challenge had been to suggest imaginative experiments to be conducted in weightless conditions.
    For the next two hours, the flight resembled that of an enormous bird which had lost its reason, shooting upwards towards the heavens before rushing towards Earth. The invention was to achieve weightlessness for a few seconds.
    The aircraft took off smoothly enough. But any feelings that I and the young scientists had that we were on anything like a scheduled passenger service were quickly dismissed when the pilot put the plane into a 45-degree climb which lasted around 20 seconds. Then the engines cut out and we became weightless. Everything became confused and left or right, up or down no longer had any meaning. After ten seconds of free-fall descent (下降) the pilot pulled the aircraft out of its nosedive. The return of gravity was less immediate than its loss, but was still sudden enough to ensure that some students came down with a bump.
    Each time the pilot cut the engines and we became weightless, a new team conducted its experiment. First it was the Dutch who wanted to discover how it is that cats always land on their feet. Then the German team who conducted a successful experiment on a traditional building method to see if it could be used for building a further space station. The Americans had an idea to create solar sails that could be used by satellites.
    After two hours of going up and down in the lane doing their experiments, the predominant feeling was one of excitement rather than sickness. Most of the students thought it was an unforgettable experience and one they would be keen to repeat.
What did the pilot do with the plane after it took off?
选项 A、He quickly climbed and then stopped the engines.
B、He climbed and then made the plane fall slowly.
C、He took off normally and then cut the engines for 20 seconds.
D、He climbed and then made the plane turn over.
答案A
解析 根据题干的took off定位至第5段。该段讲述飞机的飞行模式：当飞机上升20秒后，飞行员就会关掉引擎，让其作自由落体运动，A所述正与此相符，故为本题答案。B对错参半，前半句(He climbed)与文意相符，但fall slowly与文意不符，飞机在引擎熄掉后处于失重状态时所做的是自由落体运动，而自由落体运动是一种不断增速的下坠过程，并非慢速下降，故排除B。C错在for 20 seconds，由第5句可知，下落时间只是10秒，故排除C。当飞机上升20秒后，就开始自由落下(free-fall descent)，而非D所说的翻转(turn over)，故排除D。
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