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$35 million and the willingness to risk your life.
On July 21, a private Virginia firm that had already sent three super-rich men to the international space station for $20 million each announced it would offer an even rarer adventure: a stroll (漫步) outside the space station for an extra $15 million.
“It’s something very few of the astronauts have done,” said Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures Ltd.
Former NASA spacewalker Kathy Thornton, who is on the firm’s advisory board, added, “It’s just sort of the feeling of freedom that you can’t experience anywhere else.”
“With the blessing of the Russian space agency, Space Adventures is arranging for the first spacewalking tourist to go into orbit in about a year or so,” Anderson said. The trip would include an eight-day stay aboard the international space station and a 90-minute spacewalk. The plan still needs the approval of the other 15 partners in the international space station, but Anderson said, “Russian space officials are confident that they can get the OK.” “They’re going to be right outside the door of the ship for an hour and a half,” Anderson added. “Of course, they will have an astronaut with them.”
A spacewalking tourist is “probably unwise”, said one former astronaut, who almost died during a February 2002 fire aboard the Russian Mir space station. “If a spacewalking tourist does something wrong, he could endanger the astronaut accompanying him. And if the astronaut has a problem, the tourist would not be of much help,” said Jerry Linenger, another astronaut.
But others among the people who have spacewalked say it offers great excitement. “It was such a beautiful experience physically,” said an astronaut. “It brought tears to my eyes.”
60. The most cherished adventure mentioned in the passage is to ______.
A. learn how to be an experienced astronaut
B. walk in space outside the space station
C. manage the satellite alone
D. board the satellite with astronauts
61. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that ______.
A. no one can help you except the satellite
B. you should own a satellite if you want to feel completely free
C. freedom is the only feeling you can experience in the satellite
D. walking in space makes you feel completely free
62. From the passage we can infer that ______.
A. most astronauts have walked outside the space station
B. tourists need one year to prepare for a spacewalk
C. the plan of spacewalking needs the approval of all members
D. Anderson doesn’t support the plan of spacewalking
63. Jerry Linenger doesn’t support the plan of spacewalking because ______.
A. he almost died during a spacewalk with a tourist before
B. he thinks the tourist and the astronaut may face danger
C. he thinks it costs too much money
D. the government is against the plan
C难度：中
Clara Barton was born in a middle-class family on Christmas Day in 1821 in Oxford,
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