2020届高三英语一轮复习 Module 5 The Conquest of the Universe阅读案（无答案）外研版选修8（通用）

Module5 The Conquest of the Universe话题激发对探索宇宙的兴趣，学习天文航天的相关词汇。重点知识joint, accustomed, historic, assume, in spite of, advanced, accuse 等词用法阅读导学案使用方法：自主阅读P2-3课文，然后尝试完成下面的练习。作完后，自行查阅教材进行答案校对。: 汉译英填空Ever since Neil Armstrong first _(踏上) the Moon back on 21st July, 1969, people _(习惯于) 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 Armstrongs now famous words:“Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”,_（梦想实现了）. 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 spaceships 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 shuttlea spacecraft that could be used for several journeys. The first _(飞入太空的飞船)was the Columbialaunched 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 _(十年多一点)after Apollo 11s historic voyage, the Columbia made a safe, controlled, aeroplane-style landing in California. This was the start of a_(太空旅行的新时代).By the time the Challenger took off in 1986, the world _(似乎应经失去)its fear and wonder at the amazing _(成就)of people going to be a special flight and so millions of people turned in to _（目睹这个起飞）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 the spacecraft and explain how gravity worked. The second was to describe the aim of the Challenger space programme. Christa hoped to _(传达)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 over a minute after taking off in Florida and all seven astronauts were killed.The world was_(震惊了) maybe they assumed this space flight would be no more dangerous than getting on an aeroplane. But how wrong they werein one moment excitement and success _（变成了）fear and disaster. 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.”: 语法填空I can remember that day so clearly, _ (watch) the take-off on TV at school. There was _ ordinary teacher on the Challenger, and we were all very excited. We didnt 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 _ take-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 _ 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 teachers 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 still only at the very beginning of its voyage int