Unit 6 Space exploration
More reading: Chinese manned space flights
【学习目标】
认读理解单词,通过上下文,掌握核心单词、短语和句子的含义。
【学习重难点】
理解单词,通过上下文,掌握核心单词、短语和句子的含义。
【学习过程】
1 Around ad 1500, a man named Wan Hu made the first attempt at space flight. He sat down in his chair, tied 47rockets to it, and then lit them.
attempt n. / v. 企图,尝试,试图
attempt at sth / doing sth
attempt to do sth
make an attempt at sth / doing sth
make an attempt to do sth 企图、试图做某事,尝试(做)某事
They made no attempt to escape. 他们并没有试图逃跑。
Don't attempt to do what you can't do. 不要企图做那些办不到的事情.
练习:
他企图离开现场,但被警察发现了。
He made an attempt to leave the scene, but was watched by the police.
2 When the smoke cleared, Wan Hu was gone.… He most likely was consumed in the explosion.
clear v. 澄清, 清除障碍, 放晴 clear up 放晴,解决,澄清
I hope it'll clear up this afternoon. 我希望今天下午天会放晴。
consume v. 消耗, 消费, 饮食;毁灭;消磨;枯萎
We consume energy when we move. 我们运动的时候要消耗能量。
We can not imagine what it will be like if a man-made black hole is to consume the earth.
我们无法想象人造黑洞吞食地球会是什么一种情形。
3 This time was beaten by China's next manned space flight, Shenzhou 6, which began on 12October 2005. On this flight, Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng spent five days orbiting Earth.
beat v. “打,打败”,在文中指“时间上超过”的意思。
练习:
在所有的科学家中,俄罗斯人在太空的逗留时间最长。
Russians beat all the other scientists in the time duration of their stay in space.
Our team beat their team yesterday. 昨天,我们队打败了他们队。
I felt my heart beating violently. 我感觉到自己的心跳得很厉害。
4 China is also developing a programme, named Chang'e after the story of a beautiful young girl who floated to the Moon, of missions leading to a lunar station.
name after 以……命名
练习:
这个城市是以为它献出生命的英雄的名字来命名的。
The city was named after a hero who laid down his life for it.