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  3. A. attempt B. charged C. crucial D. delicate E. essentially F. eventually G. expended H. fraction I. individual

A. attempt B. charged C. crucial D. delicate E. essentially F. eventually G. expended H. fraction I. individual

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问题     A. attempt    B. charged    C. crucial   D. delicate   E. essentially
    F. eventually G. expended   H. fraction  I. individual J. maintain
    K. minority   L. negligible M. scrapping N. slashing   O. upsurging
    Space X launched a cheaper, partially-used rocket into orbit. That’s a stride toward【C1】________the price tag of sending payload to space. Successfully flying reusable rockets is a【C2】________step toward the dream of sending people to Mars. Until now, rockets have almost all been single-use. Once the fuel is【C3】________, a rocket stage plummets to Earth, resulting in the destruction of extremely expensive equipment that costs tens of millions of dollars to build.
    Its founder has likened that to【C4】________a 747 jet after one flight, which would make air travel impossibly expensive. He has suggested that rocket launches could【C5】________be much cheaper since the cost of the rocket propellants are less than 1 percent of the full-price ticket for a launch. So, if a rocket could be simply refueled like a jetliner for another flight, the cost of space travel could drop to a【C6】________of what it is now. The stresses of spaceflight on reused boosters, however, are much greater than those on jetliners. The economics will depend on how many times a booster can be flown, and how much the 【C7】________expense will be to repair the booster each time.
    Reusable spaceships are not a new idea. NASA’s space shuttles were the first real【C8】________at a reusable spaceship, but the shuttles proved more【C9】________than hoped, requiring an army of technicians to【C10】________them between flights. As a result, they ended up being more expensive than expendable rockets.
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答案D
解析 由空格后的连词than可知，此处是一个比较句，再由空格前的系动词proved可知，空格处应填入一个形容词。由下文中的an army of technicians及between flights可知，下文提到的是每次飞行后对航天飞机进行维修。由此可知，航天飞机很脆弱，需要及时维修，故D项delicate “微妙的；脆弱的”为答案。
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