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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 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 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 future 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 plane 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.
This text was written to________.
选项 A、encourage young people to take up science
B、describe the process of a scientific competition
C、show scientists what young people can do
D、report on a new scientific technique
答案A
解析 本题题干中没有特殊关键词，问的是文章目的，即主题题，需定位各段主题：第一段：13名欧美学生将进行未知的飞行体验。第二段：飞机的内部结构。第三段：各大洲的理科生竞争飞行机会，以进行失重实验。第四段：飞机先冲向天空后冲向地面是为了获得短暂的失重状态。第五段：飞机飞行过程的描述。第六段：各国团队进行失重实验。第七段：学生们对失重实验的感受。从以上各段主题可知，本文主要讲述了13名欧美学生的一次飞行经历，这些学生亲历了各国科学团队在失重条件下进行科学实验的过程，体验结束后，这些年轻的科学家都觉得这是一次难忘的经历，感到很兴奋。由此可知，参与飞行体验的学生们感受到了科学的奇妙与魅力，而作者写下这篇文章，把自己的经历分享出来，让更多的人了解这次科学实验过程，希望大家也能感受到科学的奇妙，感受这份兴奋和震撼，从而对科学产生兴趣，参与进来，因此选项A与原文的主旨一致，为正确选项。本文唯一提到竞赛的地方是在第三段第一句，介绍学生们是通过竞争得到此次飞行机会的。其他内容与竞争无关，所以选项B无中生有。文章并没有提及此次飞行是为了“向科学家展示年轻人的能力”，虽然年轻人有能力做各项实验，但不能推出本文目的是年轻人想证明自己的能力，选项C属于主观推导。如果本文目的是为了报道科学技术的话，那么文中应该围绕技术的性质、原理、意义等方面说明，但本文仅仅是对一次飞行体验的叙述，没有对专业技术的说明，所以选项D属于无中生有。
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