九、阅读下列短文，从A，B，C，D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案填空。 　　Ludwig is a scholar.His father's family were from France,and his ,mother's were German.His parents had net soon after the war in France.They soon decided to emigrate to America,but while they were waiting for their visas they first went on a brief visit to England so as to improve their English.Here young Ludwig had achieved an English birth,and with it the right to British nationality,although before his first birthday he was already in the U.S.A.,he grew up happily enough,normally enough,as an American child,his parents joy.Yet ,in his blood,too,old European things lived and waited,and as he became an adult and an intellectual he found himself an unidentified person.His parents,perfectly hi-lingual in French and German,spoke only English at home,laboriously consersing even when they were alone together,in this language which they never fully mastered.Ludwig learnt his French and German at school. 　　When he came at last to Europe,no blood relations awaited him.All had died or scattered.What mainly confronted him was the ghost of Hitler.This and many other things need to be driven out.As a historian wand as a man he needed somehow in thought to go through the whole passion of recent history,but he could not do it.Faced with what he had so significantly missed,his intellect became faint.He remained outside it all and yet burdened by it as by something heavy forever reailing behind him,a part of himself which he could never properly see.In america he felt European,in France he felt German,in Germany american.Only in England,which he found in some ways most American.Only in Engliand,which he found in some ways most alien of all,could he somehow forget or postpone the problem of who he was.The company of other historians suited him,and they just took him for granted and assumed quietly that of sourse he would stay and hecome British.He was so grateful for that. 　　1.Ludwig was born in England because his parents had ________. 　　A.gone there to get visas 　　B.wanted him to be eligible for British nationality 　　C.happened to be in England at that time 　　D.been requited to go there to learn English 　　2.the way Ludwigs parents brought him up made him________. 　　A.conscious of his European heritage 　　B.content to be an American 　　C.secure in his position 　　D.an anxious intellectual 　　3.Ludwig's parents spoke English at home because they________. 　　A.were of different nationalities 　　B.needed to practise the language 　　C.wanted to be thoroughly American 　　D.did not want Ludiwig to favor French or German 　　4.Ludwig had hoped,in Europe,to be able to________. 　　A.look up some of his relatives 　　B.see the past in a different light 　　C.involve himself passionately in history 　　D.make a special study of Hitler 　　5.Europe had the effect of making Ludwig feel________. 　　A.a loss of identity 　　B.conscious of his origin 　　C.part of a historical process 　　D.burdened with guilt 　　6.Ludwig felt the company of other historians________. 　　A.exciting 　　B.comforting 　　C.disturbing 　　D.boring 　　For nearly a century before there was such a thing as a space program,a view of space was possible.People could see detailed views of the Moon,explore Mars,and study the geometric beauty of Saturn's rings.All of this was made possible by a small group of artist astronomers who made a career of illustrating how other worlds in space might look. 　　Lucien Rudaux,a French artist,was the first to combine his artistic talents with his knowledge of astronomy.His paintings show a mixture of skilled observations,brilliant imagination,and painstaking(煞费苦心的)attention to detail.As a result,many of his works have come surprisingly close to actual conditions on distant planets.His paintings of Mars included moonlike craters (碗形洞)that were first photographed by the Mariner 4 probe(探测卫生)in 1965.His 1930 painting of a dust storm looks remarkably like a photograph of a storm taken by Orbiter 2 in 1976. 　　The srtist astronomers,in cluding Rudaux,stimulated interest in outer space by painting what enevtually turned out to be precise portraits(准确的模型)of the planets. 　　7.The main idea of the passage is ________. 　　A.the amazing accuracy of space artist 　　B.the poprlar success of Lucien Rudaux 　　C.the imaginations of great artists 　　D.the similarities of the Moon to Mars 　　8.People were first able to see paintings showing the appearance of other planets in________. 　　A.almost one hundred years ago 　　B.in the 1930s 　　C.in 1965 　　D.in 1976 　　9.It can be seen that artist-astronomers spent their lives________. 　　A.exploring the planets 　　B.studying geometry 　　C.creating images of space 　　D.producing rockets for space travel 　　10.according to the passage,the works of Lucien Rudaex represent a combination of ________. 　　A.astronomy and mathematics 　　B.general and detailed information 　　C.photography and pictures 　　D.fact and imagination|