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For nearly a century before there was such a thing as a space program, a view of space was possible. People could see detailed v

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问题    For nearly a century before there was such a thing as a space program, a view of space was possible. People could see detailed views of the Moon, explore Mars, and study the geometric beauty of Saturn’s rings. All of this was made possible by a small group of artist-astronomers who made a career of illustrating how other worlds in space might look.
   Lucien Rudaux, a French artist, was the first to combine his artistic talents with his knowledge of astronomy. His paintings show a mixture of skilled observations, brilliant imagination, and painstaking attention to details. As a result, many of his works have come surprisingly to close to actual conditions on distant planets. His painting of Mars included moonlike craters that were first photographed by the Mariner 4 probe in 1965. His 1930 painting of a dust storm looks remarkably like a photograph of a storm taken by Orbiter 2 in 1976.
   The artist-astronomers, including Rudaux, stimulated interest in outer space by painting what eventually turned out to be precise portraits of the planets.
What is the main idea of the passage?
选项 A、The amazing accuracy of space artists.
B、The popular success of Lucien Rudaux.
C、The imaginations of great artists.
D、The similarities of the Moon to Mars.
答案A
解析 本题要求考生通读全文。文中主要讲述了一个多世纪前的艺术天文家对太空的想像和现在所知的太空非常地相像。因此，正确的答案为 A。
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