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1、Module5 The Conquest of the Universe 話題 激發(fā)對探索宇宙的興趣，學習天文航天的相關詞匯。 重點知識 joint, accustomed, historic, assume, in spite of, advanced, accuse 等詞用法 閱讀導學案 使用方法：自主閱讀P2-3課文，然后嘗試完成下面的練習。作完后，自行查閱教材進行答案校對。 Ⅰ: 漢譯英填空 Ever since Neil Armstrong first ___________(踏上) the Moon back on 21st July, 1969,

2、 people ___________(習慣于) the idea of space travel. Millions of people watched that first moon landing on television, , ___________（心跳到嗓子眼）aware of how difficult and dangerous an adventure it was, and what risks had to be taken. With Armstrong`s now famous words:“That`s one small step for man, one

3、giant leap for mankind”,_____________（夢想實現(xiàn)了）. All three astronauts ________________（成功安全返回地球）using a spaceship computer that was much less powerful than the ones used by the average school students today. There were several more journeys into space over the next few years but the single spa

4、ceships were very expensive as they could not take off more than once. People were ___________（不再） so enthusiastic about a peace travel programme that was costing the United States $10 million a day. That was until the arrival of the space shuttle——a spacecraft that could be used for several jou

5、rneys. The first ________________(飛入太空的飛船)was the Columbia——launched from the Kennedy Space Centre on 12th April, 1981,. The aim of this flight was to test the new shuttle system, to go safely up into orbit and to return to the Earth for a safe landing. It was a success and ____________(十年多一點)after

6、Apollo 11`s historic voyage, the Columbia made a safe, controlled, aeroplane-style landing in California. This was the start of a________________(太空旅行的新時代). By the time the Challenger took off in 1986, the world __________(似乎應經(jīng)失去)its fear and wonder at the amazing ________(成就)of people going to be

7、a special flight and so millions of people turned in to _____________（目睹這個起飛）on TV. An ordinary teacher, Christa McAuliffe, 37, who was married with two children, was to be the first civilian in space. She was going to give two fifteen-minute lessons from space. The first was to show the controls of

8、 the spacecraft and explain how gravity worked. The second was to describe the aim of the Challenger space programme. Christa hoped to ________(傳達)a sense of excitement and create new interest in the space programme. Sadly, she never came back to her classroom again, as the shuttle ________（爆炸）just

9、 over a minute after taking off in Florida and all seven astronauts were killed. The world was_________(震驚了)—— maybe they assumed this space flight would be no more dangerous than getting on an aeroplane. But how wrong they were——in one moment excitement and success ________（變成了）fear and disaster.

10、It was the worst space accident ever. As one Russian said at the time,“When something like this happens we are neither Russians nor Americans. We are just human being who have the same feelings.” Ⅱ: 語法填空 I can remember that day so clearly, ________ (watch) the take-off on TV at school. There was _

11、_______ ordinary teacher on the Challenger, and we were all very excited. We didn`t have much ________ (patient) waiting for the launch. We had seen the smiling ________(face) of the astronauts waving to the world as they ________ (step) into the shuttle. Then, little more than a minute ________ tak

12、e-off, we saw a strange red and orange light in the sky, ________ (follow) by a cloud of white smoke. The Challenger had exploded in mid-air and we all started screaming. It happened so quickly and everyone was ________ a state of shock. Like every schoolboy I had thought that going into space __

13、______ an astronaut must be the best job in the world. When I heard, a few weeks later, that the bodies of the astronaut and even the teacher`s lesson plans ____________(find) at the bottom of the ocean, I was not so sure it was worth it at all. In spite of all our advanced technology, the world is

14、still only at the very beginning of its voyage into space. III. 課文重點句型翻譯: 1.自從尼爾阿姆斯特朗在1969年7月21日首次踏上月球以來，人們對太空旅行這一概念已經(jīng)非常熟悉。 ________________________________________________________________________ 2. 人們對每天要花掉美國1000萬美元的太空旅行計劃不再那么熱衷了。 _________________________________________________________________________ 3. 全世界都震驚了，也許他們原本都認為這次太空旅行跟乘坐飛機一樣沒什么危險。 ________________________________________________________________________ 4. 即便我們掌握了現(xiàn)在的全部先進技術(shù)，我們這個世界依然只是處于太空旅行的起步階段。 ________________________________________________________________________