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1. Based on the information in the article, what can be inferred about the communication blackout during the flyby?

A. It was caused by a malfunction in the spacecraft's communication system.

B. It occurred when the spacecraft was at its farthest point from Earth.

C. It happened when the Moon physically blocked the signal between the spacecraft and Earth.

D. It lasted for the majority of the seven-hour flyby period.

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The Artemis II Crew Has Sent Back Stunning Images From The Far Side of The Moon

From: ScienceAlert

After a historic lunar flyby that carried four astronauts farther from Earth than humanity has ever been, the Artemis II crew has sent home spectacular photos of the far side of the Moon.

The images include Earth peeking over the limb of the Moon, both setting and rising again; a rare in-space solar eclipse as the Moon passed between the Orion spacecraft Integrity and the Sun; and high-resolution images of the geology of the far side, heavily pocked with craters that are comparatively absent on the near side.

The seven-hour flyby took place on Monday 6 April 2026, including a 40-minute communication blackout as the signal was blocked by the Moon itself.

As Integrity passed behind the Moon, the four crew members – mission commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen – took pictures of the far side.

It was during this leg of the mission that the spacecraft made its closest approach to the Moon – just 6,545 kilometers (4,067 miles) from the surface – before reached its maximum distance of 406,771 kilometers from Earth.

Just after Integrity emerged and resumed communication with Earth, the spacecraft observed a total solar eclipse for nearly an hour as the Sun disappeared behind the Moon. A solar eclipse is a rare opportunity to observe details in the solar corona that are usually obscured by the blazing light of the Sun.

In addition, without the glare of the Sun, the crew was able to see the faint flashes of six meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface.

The lunar far side is also a region of intense interest because it's so very different from the lunar near side. The near side is partially covered by large, flat, dark plains of volcanic basalt that seeped from below the lunar surface millions of years ago. The far side, by contrast, has very little basalt resurfacing and is heavily scarred by craters.

The reason for this difference is a mystery that we have yet to solve. Observations using cutting-edge technology may help discover clues.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为机器翻译，仅供参考

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The Artemis II Crew Has Sent Back Stunning Images From The Far Side of The Moon

From: ScienceAlert

After a historic lunar flyby that carried four astronauts farther from Earth than humanity has ever been, the Artemis II crew has sent home spectacular photos of the far side of the Moon.

在历史性的绕月飞行后，阿尔忒弥斯二号（Artemis II）的宇航员们向地球传回了月球背面的壮丽图像。这次飞行将四名宇航员带到了人类从未到达过的遥远深空。

flyby /ˈflaɪ.baɪ/ 表示“（尤指航天器的）近天体飞行”，英文解释为“a flight, especially in a spacecraft, past a particular point in space”举个🌰：The pictures were taken during the spacecraft's 25-minute flyby of the asteroid. 这些照片是在航天器靠近小行星的25分钟飞行期内拍摄的。

spectacular /spekˈtæk.jə.lər/ 1）表示“壮观的；精彩的；令人印象深刻的”，英文解释为“very impressive”如：a mountainous area with spectacular scenery 景色壮丽的山区，a spectacular success 辉煌的成就。

2）表示“非常大的，巨大的；惊人的，突如其来的”，英文解释为“very sudden, unexpected, or extreme”举个🌰：The news caused a spectacular fall in the stock market. 这一消息引起了股市的暴跌。

The images include Earth peeking over the limb of the Moon, both setting and rising again; a rare in-space solar eclipse as the Moon passed between the Orion spacecraft Integrity and the Sun; and high-resolution images of the geology of the far side, heavily pocked with craters that are comparatively absent on the near side.

传回的图像内容丰富：有地球从月球边缘“探头”、落下又升起的景象；有月球运行到猎户座飞船“坚毅号”（Orion spacecraft Integrity）与太阳之间时，在太空中捕捉到的罕见日食；还有月球背面地质的高清照片，其表面密布的陨石坑与相对平坦的月球正面形成鲜明对比。

limb /lɪm/ 1）表示“肢体；树枝，树杈”，英文解释为“an arm or leg of a person or animal”举个🌰：The accident victims mostly had injuries to their lower limbs (= legs). 事故受害者大多腿上都有伤。

2）在天文学和地球物理学中，limb是一个专业术语，特指：（太阳、月亮、行星等天体的）可见圆盘的边缘、外周。

表示“日食”，英文解释为“an occasion when the sun disappears from view, either completely or partly, while the moon is moving between it and the earth”

integrity /ɪnˈteɡ.rə.ti/ 1）表示“完整”，英文解释为“the quality of being whole and complete”举个🌰：A modern extension on the old building would ruin its architectural integrity.  在古老建筑物上附加扩建的现代建筑会破坏建筑风格的完整统一。

2）表示“正直；诚实；职业操守”，英文解释为“the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change”举个🌰：No one doubted that the president was a man of the highest integrity. 没有人怀疑总裁是个光明磊落的人。

resolution /ˌrez.əˈluː.ʃən/ 1）表示“决议”，英文解释为“A resolution is a formal decision made at a meeting by means of a vote.”举个🌰：He replied that the UN had passed two major resolutions. 他回复说联合国已经通过两项重大决议。

2）表示“决心，决定”，英文解释为“If you make a resolution, you decide to try very hard to do something.”举个🌰：They made a resolution to lose all the weight gained during the Christmas holidays. 他们下了一个决心要减掉圣诞节期间增加的全部体重。

3）表示“（显微镜、电视、计算机显示屏等的）清晰度，分辨率”，英文解释为“the ability of a microscope, or a television or computer screen, to show things clearly and with a lot of detail”如：a high/low resolution image 高/低清晰度图像。

geology /dʒiˈɒl.ə.dʒi/ 表示“地质学”，英文解释为“the study of the rocks and similar substances that make up the earth's surface”如：a geology professor/student/class/department 地质学教授/学生/课程/系。

表示“（使）布满坑洞、麻点”英文解释为“To cover or mark (a surface) with holes, pits, or indentations. In this context, "heavily pocked with craters" means the surface is densely covered or scarred with crater marks.”举个🌰：The lunar surface is heavily pocked with impact craters from meteoroids over billions of years. 月球表面因数十亿年来流星体的撞击而布满了陨石坑。

crater /ˈkreɪ.tər/ 表示“火山口；（火山口似的）坑”，英文解释为“the round hole at the top of a volcano, or a hole in the ground similar to this”如：the huge crater of Vesuvius 巨大的维苏威火山口。

The seven-hour flyby took place on Monday 6 April 2026, including a 40-minute communication blackout as the signal was blocked by the Moon itself.

这次长达七小时的绕月飞越发生在2026年4月6日，星期一。期间，由于月球本身的阻挡，飞船与地球的通信中断了约40分钟。

1）表示“灯火管制时期；断电时期；断电，停电”，英文解释为“a time when all lights must be hidden by law, or when there is no light or power because of an electricity failure”如：wartime blackouts 战时灯火管制，举个🌰： Power lines were blown down and we had a blackout of several hours. 电线被吹断了，我们停了几个小时电。

2）表示“消息封锁”，英文解释为“the action taken to make certain that information about something is not reported to the public”如：a news blackout 新闻封锁。

🎬电影《科洛弗道10号》（10 Cloverfield Lane）中的台词提到：In the wake of this afternoon's widespread blackout 在今天下午的大面积停电之后，...

As Integrity passed behind the Moon, the four crew members – mission commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen – took pictures of the far side.

当“坚毅号”运行到月球背面时，四名宇航员——任务指挥官里德·怀斯曼（Reid Wiseman）、飞行员维克多·格洛弗（Victor Glover）以及任务专家克里斯蒂娜·科赫（Christina Koch）和杰里米·汉森（Jeremy Hansen）——抓紧机会拍摄了月球背面的景象。

It was during this leg of the mission that the spacecraft made its closest approach to the Moon – just 6,545 kilometers (4,067 miles) from the surface – before reached its maximum distance of 406,771 kilometers from Earth.

正是在飞越月球背面的这段航程中，飞船抵达了距离月球表面最近的位置——仅6,545公里（约4,067英里）。随后，飞船继续飞行，达到了距离地球约406,771公里的最远点。

熟词僻义，表示“段，阶段”，英文解释为“a particular stage of a journey, competition, or activity”举个🌰：The last leg of the race was Paris to London. 最后一段赛程是从巴黎到伦敦。

Just after Integrity emerged and resumed communication with Earth, the spacecraft observed a total solar eclipse for nearly an hour as the Sun disappeared behind the Moon. A solar eclipse is a rare opportunity to observe details in the solar corona that are usually obscured by the blazing light of the Sun.

就在“坚毅号”从月球背面飞出、恢复与地球通信后不久，飞船观测到了一次持续近一小时的日全食，此时太阳正被月球完全遮挡。日全食是研究日冕的绝佳机会，因为太阳那耀眼的光芒被遮挡后，通常被掩盖的日冕细节得以显现。

résumé /ˈrez.ə.meɪ/ 表示“简历，履历”，英文解释为“a short written description of your education, qualifications, previous jobs, and sometimes also your personal interests, that you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job”

resume /rɪˈzjuːm/ 1）表示“（中断后）继续，重新开始”，英文解释为“If an activity resumes, or if you resume it, it starts again after a pause.”举个🌰：Normal services will be resumed in the spring. 春天将恢复正常服务。

2）表示“恢复；重新回到，重返（某地或某位置）”，英文解释为“If you resume a place or position that you have left for a period of time, you return to it.”如：to resume your post/job 重返工作岗位，举个🌰：Please resume your seats, as the performance will continue in two minutes. 请大家回到自己的座位上去，两分钟后演出继续。

📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述疫情之下学生上课问题的文章中提到复课就用的resume classes：As well as letting final-year secondary-school students facing exams resume classes, Denmark has also begun to reopen crèches and primary schools. 丹麦除了让面临毕业考试的中学毕业班复课外，还开始逐步重开幼儿园和小学。

corona /kəˈrəʊ.nə/ 表示“（指在日食期间的）日冕；月华”，英文解释为“a circle of light that can sometimes be seen around the moon at night, or around the sun during an eclipse (= a time when the moon is positioned exactly between the sun and the earth)”

obscure /əbˈskjʊə/ 作形容词，表示“无名的；鲜为人知的；默默无闻的”，英文解释为“not known to many people”。也可以表示“费解的，晦涩的；模糊的，朦胧的；不清楚的”，英文解释为“not clear and difficult to understand or see”举个🌰：His answers were obscure and confusing. 他的回答模糊不清，令人费解。

作动词，表示“遮掩；遮蔽；使不分明”，英文解释为“to prevent something from being seen or heard”举个🌰：Two new skyscrapers had sprung up, obscuring the view from her window. 两座新摩天大楼拔地而起，挡住了她窗外的风景。

In addition, without the glare of the Sun, the crew was able to see the faint flashes of six meteoroid impacts on the lunar surface.

此外，由于没有了太阳的强光干扰，宇航员们甚至观测到了六次流星体撞击月球表面时产生的微弱闪光。

glare /ɡleər/ 1）表示“（长久的）怒视，瞪眼”，英文解释为“a long, angry look”举个🌰：She gave me a fierce glare. 她恶狠狠地瞪了我一眼。

2）表示“刺眼的光”，英文解释为“unpleasantly bright or strong light”举个🌰：Tinted windows will reduce the glare/the sun's glare. 有色玻璃窗会遮挡刺眼的阳光。

The lunar far side is also a region of intense interest because it's so very different from the lunar near side. The near side is partially covered by large, flat, dark plains of volcanic basalt that seeped from below the lunar surface millions of years ago. The far side, by contrast, has very little basalt resurfacing and is heavily scarred by craters.

月球背面之所以备受科学家关注，正是因为它与我们所熟悉的月球正面差异巨大。月球正面部分区域覆盖着大片平坦、暗色的火山玄武岩平原，这些是数百万年前从月球内部涌出的熔岩冷却形成的。相比之下，月球背面则很少有这种玄武岩覆盖，其表面布满了密密麻麻的陨石坑。

basalt /ˈbæs.ɒlt/ 表示“玄武岩”，英文解释为“a type of black rock that comes from a volcano”

seep /siːp/ 表示“渗出；渗漏”，英文解释为“to move or spread slowly out of a hole or through something”举个🌰：Pesticides are seeping out of farmland and into the water supply. 杀虫剂正从农田中渗出，进入供水系统。

scar /skɑːr/ 表示“伤疤；伤痕；瘢痕”，英文解释为“a mark that is left on the skin after a wound has healed”如：scar tissue 瘢痕组织，a scar on his cheek 脸上的伤疤。

作动词，表示“结疤；留下伤痕”，英文解释为“to leave a scar”举个🌰：He was scarred as a result of the fire. 那场大火给他留下了伤疤。

The reason for this difference is a mystery that we have yet to solve. Observations using cutting-edge technology may help discover clues.

造成这种差异的原因至今仍是一个未解之谜。而利用此次任务中先进的观测技术所获得的数据，或许能帮助我们找到解开谜团的线索。

cutting-edge /ˌkʌt.ɪŋˈedʒ/ 表示“尖端的，前沿的”，英文解释为“Cutting-edge techniques or equipment are the most advanced that there are in a particular field.”举个🌰：What we are planning is cutting-edge technology never seen before. 我们正在筹划的是前所未见的尖端技术。

🎬电影《像素大战》（Pixels）中的台词提到：I'm thinking this is a cutting-edge multinational enterprise. 我想是某先进跨国组织干的。

📍state-of-the-art表示“（技术上）最先进的”，英文解释为“If you describe something as state-of-the-art, you mean that it is the best available because it has been made using the most modern techniques and technology.”

📍leading edge表示“（某活动领域的）最重要位置，领先地位；（尤指技术上的）前沿，尖端”，英文解释为“The leading edge of a particular area of research or development is the area of it that seems most advanced or sophisticated.”如：at the leading edge of scientific research 在科学研究的前沿。

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