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Directions
：
Read the following passages carefully.
Each passage is followed by some
questions or unfinished sentences. For
each of them there are four choices marked A, B,
C, and D. Choose the best answer to
each question.
Governments throughout
the world act on the assumption that the welfare
of their people
depends largely on the
economic strength and wealth of the community.
Under modern
conditions, this requires
varying measures of centralized control
and
hence the
help
of
specialized scientists
such as economists and operational research
experts. Furthermore,
it is obvious
that the strength of
country
’
s economy is
directly bound up with the efficiency
of its agriculture and industry, and
that this in turn rests upon the efforts of
scientists and
technologists of all
kinds. It also means that governments are
increasingly compelled to
interfere in
these sectors in order to step up production and
ensure that it is utilized
(
利用
)
to
the
best
advantage.
For
example,
they
may
encourage
research
in
various
ways,
including
the
setting
up
of
their
own
research
centers;
they
may
alter
the
structure
of
education,
or
interfere
in
order
to
reduce
the
wastage
of
natural
resources
or
develop
resources hitherto
(
到目前为止
) unexploited; or they
may cooperate directly in the growing
number
of
international
projects
related
to
scientific
and
technological
manpower
of
all
kinds.
Owing to the remarkable
development in mass-communications, people
everywhere are
feeling new wants and
are being exposed to new customs and ideas, while
governments
are often forced to
introduce still further innovations
(
创新
) for the reasons given
above. At
the same time, the normal
rate of social change throughout the world is
taking place at a
vastly accelerated
speed compared with the past. For example, in the
early industrialized
countries of
Europe, the process of industrialization
—
with all the
far-reaching changes
in social patterns
that followed
—
was spread over nearly a century,
whereas nowadays
a developing nation
may undergo the same process in a decade or so.
All this has the
effect
of
building
up
unusual
pressures
and
tensions
within
the
community
and
consequently presents serious problems
for the governments concerned. Additional social
stresses
may
also
occur because
of the
population explosion
or
problems arising
from
mass
migration
movements
—
themselves
made
relatively easy
nowadays
by
modern
means
of
transport.
As
a
result
of
all
these
factors,
governments
are
becoming
increasingly
dependent
on
biologists
and
social
scientists
for
planning
the
appropriate
programs and
putting them into effect.
1)
What is believed to directly affect the
welfare of people according to the passage?
A.
Varying measures of
centralized control
B.
Economic strength and wealth of the community.
C.
Economists and
operational research experts.
D.
Help of specialized scientists.
2)
How can the
governments do to promote the production?
A.
By interfering in
different sectors that can promote science and
technology to ensure
smooth operation
B.
By asking the scientists
and technologists to improve efficiency.
C.
By utilizing natural
resources to the best advantage.
D.
By changing the structure of education
to train more scientists.
3)
What can be inferred from the
development in mass-communications?
A.
People are constantly changing their
customs and ideas.
B.
People always want something new and remarkable to
feel better.
C.
Governments
are under greater pressure of bringing about new
inventions.
D.
Governments
are often forced to keep up with new customs and
ideas.
4)
What
has posed pressures and problems for the
governments concerned according to the
passage?
A.
Social changes throughout the world are speeding
up compared with the past.
B.
The rate of social changes in the
early industrialized countries is becoming slow
now.
C.
The
far-
reaching
changes
in
social
patterns
can
be
spread
over
in
a
developing
country within a
decade.
D.
The normal rate
of social changes is taking place at a steady
speed.
5)
Why
are
governments
becoming
increasingly
dependent
on
biologists
and
social
scientists?
A.
Because governments need
to handle social stresses and problems.
B.
Because governments want
to learn from early industrialized countries.
C.
Because governments have
to make modern means of transport relatively easy.
D.
Because governments need
them for the industrialization of their own
countries.
参考答案：
1) B
2) A
3) C
4) A
5) A
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Why do
smokers tend to weigh less than nonsmokers and
gain weight when they give up
the
habit?
Contrary to
“
common
knowledge
”
, nonsmokers do
not generally eat more than smokers,
nor do they exercise less, studies
find. Research performed on smokers at rest
indicates
that
nicotine
(
尼古丁
)
itself
can
increase
basal
metabolic
(
新陈代谢的
)
rates,
meaning
smokers
burn
more
energy
than
nonsmokers
during
periods
of
inactivity.
But
surveys
suggest
most
smokers
smoke
not
while
completely
at
rest,
but
while
performing
light
activities
such
as
desk
work
that
can
increase
metabolic
rates
by
two
or
three
times.
Unless
nicotine
’
s
metabolic
effects
increase
proportionally
with
metabolic
rates,
its
influence on weight might be
insignificant.
Now
a
study
shows
that
nicotine
’
s
effects
on
body-
fuel
consumption
indeed
increase
proportionally with
increases in activity.
“
These results indicate that
the metabolic effect of
nicotine
may
play
a
greater
part
in
accounting
for
body-weight
differences
between
smokers and
nonsmokers than was previously
believed,
”
says
Kenneth A. Perkins and
his colleagues
at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine.
The researchers
gave a nicotine nose spray to individuals
performing light work
—
in this
case riding an
exercise bicycle modified to allow easy riding
while subjects remain seated
in a
comfortable armchair. The activity raised resting
metabolic rates two to three times.
By
analyzing
air
breathed
out,
the
researchers
calculated
energy
consumption
in
the
armchair
bicyclists
before
and
after
giving
the
nose
spray
and
compared
the
relative
changes with
subjects in the control group given placebo
(
（试验药物用的）无效对照剂
)
nose
sprays.
Relative
to
their
baseline
bicycle
expenditures,
individuals
in
the
nicotine
group expended considerably more energy
than did those in control group while doing the
same amount of work. With nicotine,
Perkins says,
“
It
’
s
as if the body is becoming much
less
efficient in using its stored
energy.
”
While the results may seem discouraging
to smokers who
’
d like to
quit without gaining
weight, Perkins
notes that walking an extra mile a day should make
up for the difference in
metabolic
efficiency. And he says smokers would have to gain
“
well more than 50
pounds
”
to
counterbalance the health risks of continued
smoking.
6)
What
might
“
common
knowledge
”
say
about smokers and nonsmokers?
A.
Smokers eat more and exercise less
than nonsmokers.
B.
Smokers
eat less and exercise more than nonsmokers.
C.
Smokers eat more and
exercise more than nonsmokers.
D.
Smokers eat less and exercise less
than nonsmokers.
7)
When might nicotine influence
smokers
’
weight
significantly?
A.
While
smokers are at rest.
B.
While smokers are exercising.
C.
When Nicotine
’
s
metabolic effects and metabolic rates increase at
the same rate.
D.
When
Nicotine
’
s
metabolic
effects
increase
proportionally
with
the
amount
of
light
activities.
8)
The word
“
subject
s
”
in the fourth
paragraph means .
A.
researchers
B.
addicted
smokers
C.
people under
medical treatment
D.
people
undergoing an experiment
9)
What have the researchers found out in
their study?
A.
People in
the nicotine group consumed more energy.
B.
People in the control
group breathed out more air.
C.
People without nicotine nose spray are
becoming much less efficient in using energy.
D.
People in the armchair
expended more energy than people doing desk work.
10)
Why do the
study results seem discouraging to some smokers
according to the passage?
A.
Because they want to keep fit without
having to quit smoking.
B.
Because they want to quit smoking and still keep
fit.
C.
Because they want
to gain weight to tackle the health risks of
continued smoking.
D.
Because they want to walking an extra mile a day
to lose some weight.
参考答案：
6) B
7) C
8) D
9) A
10) B
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According to
the new school of scientists, technology is an
overlooked force in expanding
the
horizons
of
scientific
knowledge.
Science
moves
forward,
they
say,
not
so
much
through
the
insights
of
great
men
of
genius
as
because
of
more
ordinary
things
like
improved techniques and tools. In
short, a leader of the new school contends
(
声称
), the
scientific revolution, as we call it,
was largely the improvement and invention and use
of a
series
of
instruments
that
expanded
the
reach
of
science
in
innumerable
(
无数的
)
directions.
Over the years, tools and technology
themselves as a source of fundamental innovation
(
创新
) have largely
been ignored by historians and philosophers of
science. The modern
school
that
hails
technology
argues
that
such
masters
as
Galileo,
Newton,
Maxwell,
Einstein, and inventors such as Edison
attached great importance to, and derived great
benefit
from,
craft
information
and
technological
devices
of
different
kinds
that
were
usable
in scientific experiments.
The
core
of the
argument of a
technology-
yes, genius-no
advocate was an analysis
of
Galileo
’
s role
at the start of the scientific revolution. The
wisdom of the day was derived
from
Ptolemy, an astronomer of the second century,
whose elaborate system of the sky
put
Earth at the center of all heavenly motions.
Galileo
’
s greatest glory was
that in 1609
he was the first person to
turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens
to prove that
the planets revolve
around the sun rather than around the earth. But
the real hero of the
story, according
to the new school of scientists, was the long
evolution in the improvement
of
machinery for making eyeglasses.
Federal policy is necessarily involved
in the technology vs. genius dispute. Whether the
Government should increase the
financing of pure science at the expense of
technology
or vice versa
(
反之
) often depends on the
issue of which is seen as the driving force.
11)
What leads to
the expansion of science in terms of the new
school of scientists?
A.
The creative ideas of the great minds.
B.
The scientific knowledge
of the geniuses.
C.
The
improvement of ordinary tools and techniques.
D.
The neglected force in
scientific innovations.
12)
What is the nature of scientific
revolution according to a leader of the new
school?
A.
It helps to
invent a series of new instruments.
B.
It is actually the result of the
development of a series of instruments.
C.
It pushes the science
toward a particular direction
.D.
It has improved the techniques in
innumerable directions.
13)
Why does modern school of scientists
pay attention to the invention and improvement of
tools and technology?
A.
Because they can be applied in
scientific experiments.
B.
Because they are greatly admired by scientists and
inventors.
C.
Because they
are overlooked by historians and philosophers.
D.
Because they can be
served as a source of basic innovations.
14)
What
can
be
inferred
from
the
statement
“
the
real
hero
of
the
story,
…
,
was
the
long
evolution in the improvement of
machinery for making
eyeglasses
”
?
A.
The role of Galileo at the start of
the scientific revolution was underestimated.
B.
Ptolemy was the first
astronomer to elaborate the system of heavenly
motions.
C.
The
improved technology and machinery contributed to
Galileo
’
s great discovery.
D.
Galileo proved that the
sun rather than the earth is the center of the
universe.
15)
What conclusion can be drawn from the
last paragraph?
A.
The
government
’
s decision on its
finance allocation is determined by its opinion on
the
priority between science and
technology.
B.
The
government has developed pure science at the
expense of technology.
C.
The government has attached more importance to
technology than pure science.
D.
The government will no longer increase
the financial support to pure science.
参考答案：
11) C
12) B
13) D
14) C
15) A
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Recently
there has been a tendency to sympathize with
thieves whose operations have
been
carried out on a grand scale, and no attempt
whatever has been made to hold them
responsible. Some of the most thievish
(
像窃贼的
) transactions have
flourished and are
still flourishing.
Their success and their wealth are the only things
recognized. They are
honored as
financiers and men of affairs, looked up to and
respected.
In
reality they are nothing
more and
nothing less than a
lot of merciless
and
heartless
thieves. Fraud is
fraud and cheating is cheating despite the
artistic manner in which it is
committed or the size of the scale upon
which it is operated.
It
is time these men were classed properly and placed
where they rightly belong, for they
are
no better than the miserable sneak-thief who
steals a penny from a blind
man
’
s dog.
For the past two or three years working
people who have made sacrifices to save a few
pennies
have
been
cheated
most
unmercifully.
Their
hard-earned
savings
have
been
stolen
from them by every possible scheme from the
obvious looting (
打劫
) of a
bank to
the higher and more artistic
method of legalized high risk, complex financial
products. Men
high
up
in
the
financial
world
have
lent
their
names
to
some
of
the
most
shady
and
notorious schemes that ever dishonored
a community or a people. Because of this the
most diligent and economical
(
节俭的
) American people have
been induced to place their
hard-earned
and carefully guarded savings in what they were
led to believe was a safe
investment,
only to find out when too late that they had
fallen into the hands of a gang of
extremely respectable cheats. They
cannot recover what they have lost.
The thief is too powerful to be
affected by the law while the victim is too weak
to put its
machinery in motion. It may
be that the law is defective, or it may be that
those having its
machinery in charge
are influenced by the wealth of the transgressors
(
违犯者
). Whatever
or whichever it is that is responsible
ought to be investigated and the evil remedied.
16)
What does the
tendency mentioned in the first paragraph reflect?
A.
People only respect
success and wealth without any moral judgment.
B.
People prefer to carry
out operations on a grand scale.
C.
People have made attempt to hold
thieves responsible.
D.
People encourage some of the most thievish
transactions to flourish.
17)
How did
working people lose their hard-earned savings?
A.
They were robbed by the
thieves nearby.
B.
They
were unlucky in investment.
C.
They lent their money to men high up
in the financial world.
D.
They were cheated by the bank.
18)
When the
writer says
“
a gang of
extremely respectable
cheats
”
in
Paragraph Four, it is
implied that .
A.
they are respectable in
artistic cheating
B.
they
are well-educated but ill-behaved
C.
they are not well-educated but
respected
D.
they are
cheats with respectable goals
19)
What
could
be
a
possible
reason
for
the
thieves
to
escape
from
law
according
to
the
passage?
A.
They are powerful enough to ignore the
law.
B.
There are defects
in the law.
C.
The victim
is too weak to investigate them.
D.
They are wealthy enough to compensate
the victims.
20)
It can be inferred from the passage
that .
A.
any thief should
be punished
B.
moral
standards are always upheld
C.
there are too many thieves and robbers
D.
industrious and honest
people should be highly paid
参考答案：
16) A
17) D
18) B
19) B
20) A
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There is
something grimly ridiculous
as well as
pathetic in
the
messy way we
manage
things in our crude attempt as
civilization. While we are spending hundreds of
thousands
of dollars of the
people
’
s money annually in
improving the breed of pig, or in fighting cattle
disease, we are neglecting the most
valuable asset of all, the
children of
the
nation. A
million
dollars of the people
’
s
money can be spent upon a speedway so that rich
people
might
have an
opportunity
of
exercising
their blooded
stock,
while
not
a
penny
can
be
found in the State
appropriations (
拨款
) to find
food for starving children.
This
foolish
state
of
affairs
was
brought
out
in
strong
relief
when
the
school
teachers
organized
themselves into a relief committee to find ways
and means for supplying food to
the
hungry
children
under
their
charge.
This
organization
was
brought
about
by
the
pitiable plight of the
children, many of whom had become so weakened for
lack of proper
nourishment
that
they
fainted
at
their
desks
while
trying
to
study
their
lessons.
The
teachers have called their organization
the
“
Children
’
s Relief Society,
”
and the day after
the
organization was perfected they were enabled to
issue tickets to the most destitute
(
赤
贫的
) of the
children which entitled them to immediate relief.
Besides
this
effort
on
the
part
of
the
teachers,
emergency
measures
for
the
relief
of
hundreds of pupils in other schools
have been adopted by the committee of school board
members. The newspapers reported that
relief came in this case in the form of two soup
kitchens which were opened and equipped
so as to provide for hundreds of the starving
children.
Destitution has visited hundreds of
families as the result of the business depression.
Not
only have the educational
authorities taken up the matter, but various
generous societies
have begun active
work for relieving the distress. All of which is
excellent in every way, yet
it is not
enough; it does not go far enough, for it ought
not to be left to charity, but ought to
be made a State duty.
21)
We learn from
the first paragraph that _____.
A.
we manage things well as civilization
B.
we are rich enough to
spend money freely
C.
we
need to care for the starving children
D.
rich people should
exercise their blooded stock
22)
What
motivated school teachers to organize the
< br>“
Children
’
s
Relief Society
”
?
A.
The distressing
situation of the children.
B.
The improper ways of supplying food to
the children.
C.
The charge
of food unaffordable for children.
D.
The weak performance of children in
study.
23)
What
would the Children
’
s Relief
Society do after its establishment?
A.
They would provide food directly to
poor children.
B.
They
would teach lessons to poor children for free.
C.
They would give poor
children tickets to get food.
D.
They would relieve poor
children
’
s pressure.
24)
What other
effort for the relief of children is mentioned in
the passage?
A.
The
committee of school board members has taken
emergency measures.
B.
People from the newspapers have built soup
kitchens to provide for starving children.
C.
The educational
authorities have set up funds to provide help.
D.
Generous societies have
adopted hundreds of pupils in schools.
25)
According
to
the
passage,
who
should
be
most
responsible
for
the
relief
of
children
’
s
starvation?
A.
The teacher.
B.
Children
’
s Relief Society.
C.
Charitable societies.
D.
The State.
参考答案：
21)
C
22) A
23) C
24) A
25) D
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How is it
that despite our amazing powers of production
there are still hundreds of millions
of
people all over the earth in
continuous
want and
poverty, and
dangerously near the
brink
of starvation? What are the causes of poverty?
Everyone is forced to realize and
recognize its existence and no one has
yet found a cure for it.
Every
thinking
man
has
realized
that
poverty
and
starvation
are
not
inevitable
in
the
scheme of things. On the
contrary, the fruitful earth yields enough for
every one of the
human beings
inhabiting its surface without the twisted
distribution of nature
’
s
generosity
(
慷慨
).
This twisting is caused by our crude and ill
developed ideas of distribution and the
improper ordering of human services. In
the first place, these services can be hindered at
their source, and among the factors
that operate in this direction may be war, crime,
lack
of healthy supervision,
insufficient attention to rising generations,
monopolies (
垄断
) and
various
private
ownerships
that
limit
the
usefulness
of
property,
and
neglected
and
wasteful destruction of property.
In the second place, the
great cause of poverty is unproductive
consumption. Services
become
unproductive
when
they
are
devoted
to
supplying
luxuries
or
an
excessive
quantity of
necessaries, which may be summed up in a single
word: waste. These are the
primary
causes of poverty; they are responsible for the
presence of starvation.
Is
there a remedy?
The
elimination of waste through perfect production
and distribution is a problem that is
slowly but surely being solved by the
great combinations of capital that have destroyed
competition. These monopolies, selfish
in the extreme and with no thought beyond profit
at any price, are rendering us useful
service by teaching us the importance of
cooperation
and
cooperative
methods. When these great industrial combinations,
these wonderfully
smooth running great
business machines become the property of all the
people and cease
to be operated for
private gain, a great step will have been taken in
the direction of the
solution of the
starvation problem. When everyone will produce
according to his ability and
consume
according
to
his
needs,
then,
and
not
until
then
will
poverty
and
starvation
depart entirely
and forever from the minds of men.
26)
According to
the passage, starvation _____.
A.
is inevitable in whatever condition
B.
is the result of
insufficient production
C.
is owing to the improper distribution of
nature
’
s generosity
D.
is due to excessive
consumption by human beings
27)
Which of the
following can hinder human services at their
source?
A.
Private
ownerships and unproductive consumption.
B.
Luxuries and an
excessive quantity of necessaries.
C.
Crime and lack of wealthy supervision.
D.
War and destruction of
property.
28)
Why
does
unproductive
consumption
is
considered
as
the
great
cause
of
poverty
in
Paragraph Three?
A.
Because people stop producing but only
consume.
B.
Because people
devote too much to luxuries and
don
’
t produce anything.
C.
Because people are
supplied with excessive quantity of necessaries
and waste a lot.
D.
Because
people who don
’
t produce are
responsible for the presence of starvation.
29)
How to
eliminate waste through production and
distribution according to the passage?
A.
By seeking profit at any
price and being selfish.
B.
By privatizing business machines and teaching the
importance of cooperation.
C.
By creating more monopolies to make
more profits.
D.
By
cooperating and making the industrial combinations
public property.
30)
When can the starvation problem be
solved according to the passage?
A.
When the great industrial combinations
cease to be operated for private gain.
B.
When
private
monopolies
become
public
property
and
the
element
of
profit
is
eliminated.
C.
When
production
is
organized
based
on
personal
capabilities
and
distribution
on
individual needs.
D.
When efficiency of production has been
greatly enhanced.
参考答案：
26) C
27) D
28) C
29) D
30) C
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When DR.
THOMAS
E.
DEIKER,
59,
remembers
his
life
almost
30
years
ago
in
Pineville, La., he thinks about guns.
Worried that more of his neighbors appeared to be
buying firearms, Deiker, a research
psychologist at Central Louisiana State Hospital
at the
time, wrote a My Turn in 1974
advocating stricter gun-control laws at a time
when any
legislation that existed was
loosely enforced.
Little progress on the issue of gun
control has been made since his My Turn, Deiker
says.
“
My
judgment
would
be
that
from
1974
to
now,
there
has
been
no
change
in
gun-
control laws at a national
level
”
. What makes him angry
is that even after the
“
long
series of copycat
(
模仿犯罪的
) high-school
shootings
”
and
“
a long series of
dissatisfied
employees
walking
into
their
places
of
business
and
killing
large
numbers
of
people
”
,
there
has
still
been
little
action
taken.
“
There
was
some
debate
and
discussion,
but
nothing ultimately happened to improve
the gun-control laws.
”
In
fact,
weapons
today
are
more
deadly.
“
We
have
shifted
clearly
to
a
far
more
dangerous
and
lethal
form
of
firearms
in
the
United
States,
”
he
says,
“
with
the
widespread
use
of
automatic
and
semiautomatic
weapons,
the
Internet
has
proven
a
perfect
provider,
offering
information
on
how
to
build
these
weapons
and
where
to
purchase
them.
Many
of those buyers, Deiker worries, are hardly older
than children. The amount of
graphic
(
图像的
)
violence
youth
are
exposed
to
today
desensitizes
(
使麻木
)
them
to
violence,
he says.
“
How many thousands
of killings will the average child view, either in
cartoon form or in actual graphic form,
on TV and in videogames?
”
he asks.
“
Children
grow up
practicing. They
’
re
desensitized to the experience of violence in
graphic detail.
And they have skills in
weaponry use from practicing videogames, in which
you actually
have something you hold in
your hand that you can point and
shoot.
”
In 1974, Deiker wrote
that the vast majority of killings are committed
by people known
intimately
to
each
other.
In
2002,
“
That
is
still
the
case,
”
he
says.
And
Deiker
is
not
optimistic
about
change:
“
If
we
impose
total
gun
control
from
this
day
forward,
social
scientists predict we
would be years away from seeing any
effect.
”
31)
Why did
Deiker feel angry?
A.
Because there has been little progress on gun
control since 1974.
B.
Because there are long series of copycat high-
school shootings.
C.
Because dissatisfied employees have killed people
in their company.
D.
Because little action has been taken even after
the crazy killings.
32)
Which of the following is NOT mentioned
according to the passage?
A.
In 1974 the legislation that existed
was loosely enforced.
B.
People get information about weapons through
Internet.
C.
The long
series of shootings caused spirited discussion.
D.
More dangerous weapons
are used by American people.
33)
What is the
meaning of
“
lethal
”
in Paragraph 3?
A.
dangerous
B.
Fatal
C.
Automatic
D.
evil
34)
What do we
know from the passage?
A.
Not only adults have access to weapons.
B.
Children can learn a lot
of good things from playing videogames.
C.
Cartoon is beneficial to
the youth.
D.
Many
homicides are committed by those crazy people in
2002.
35)
What is
the author
’
s attitude toward
gun control?
A.
optimistic
B.
Favorable
C.
Indifferent
D.
hostile
参考答案：
31)
D
32) C
33) B
34) A
35) B
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A generation after Americans lost the
habit of knowing who their space heroes really
are,
the
Columbia
astronauts
were
remembered
Tuesday
as
awe-struck
(
肃然起敬的
)
youngsters who longed to
“
reach the
stars
”
, and as fun-loving
but dedicated adults who
never lost
their sense of adventure. President Bush and first
lady Laura Bush attended a
45-minute
memorial ceremony at the Johnson Space Center.
The
president and the chief of the astronaut corps
helped bring the adventurous lives
of
the seven Columbia astronauts who died Saturday
into focus for NASA employees and
the
nation. Navy Capt. Kent Rominger, the astronaut
corps chief, remembered the crew
as a
''generous and caring bunch with a great sense of
humor''.
Bush also eulogized each astronaut. He
spoke on a breezy, clear day as thousands of
space program workers stood around a
tree-lined pond. The televised ceremony was also
broadcast for workers at the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida. ''Their mission was
almost
complete, and we lost them so
close to home,'' Bush said. ''Their loss was
sudden and
terrible. And for their
families, the grief is heavy. Our nation shares in
your sorrow and
your pride. And today
we remember not only one moment of tragedy but
seven lives of
great purpose and
achievement.'' Bush declared that the United
States would continue its
manned
space
program:
''This
cause
of
exploration
and
discovery
is
not
an
option
we
choose. It is a desire written in the
human heart.''