TEXT C Venus, one of the four
inner planets of our solar system, is the closest body in the sky apart from the
Moon, sometimes coming only 40 million km from the Earth. Thus, in the not-
so-distant future, when man has colonized the Moon, he will start looking at
Venus as his next step into space. As it is now, Venus’s
environment is totally unfavourable to human life. Its surface temperature is
almost 480℃. Its face is almost completely hidden from view by poisonous clouds
of 90% carbon dioxide. But scientists have a simple plan which,
they predict, could make Venus habitable. With the help of
rockets, they plan to bombard the carbon dioxide clouds with colonies of
blue-green algae. Experiments carried out on Earth have proved that blue-green
algae can survive and reproduce normally in such an environment. The algae will
consume the carbon and liberate the oxygen. They reproduce so quickly that the
carbon dioxide could be broken down within one year. After that, the surface of
Venus will be partly visible to telescopes on Earth. The
increase in oxygen will have spectacular effects on the desert planet. As oxygen
re- places the carbon dioxide, the sun’s infra-red radiation, which up to that
moment was trapped under the clouds of carbon dioxide, will escape into space
and the temperature of the lower atmosphere will decrease. Soon, water will
collect from the atmospheric vapor and rain will start falling for the first
time. That first rain will never reach the surface. It will vaporize into steam
high up in he Venusian atmosphere, but it will have a very important effect. It
will lower the ground temperature, perhaps by 35℃. Soon the rain will fall again
and again, until the ground temperature is about 70℃. Then the "Big Rain" will
strike the soil of Venus for the first time and the clouds will partly clear
away, leaving an oxygen-rich atmosphere and a temperature cool enough to sustain
hardy plants and animals from Earth. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage
A.Venus--Man’s Colony in the Space B.Can Venus be Made Habitable C.Blue-Green Algae--the Only Survivor on Venus D.A Plan to Make Venus Cooler