2. 外语
  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.
【C5】
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答案F
解析 分析空格所在句的句子结构可知，本句句子成分完整，且空格在主语之后，系动词之前，因此空格处需要填入一个副词。根据本句提到的“火箭推进燃料的成本其实不到发射一次所花费的总成本的百分之一”可知，此处是说他认为未来火箭发射最终会便宜很多，故F项eventually“最后，终于”为答案。
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