施心远主编《听力教程》3 - （第2版）Unit - 8答案(4)

A: Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary. This news item is about the water discovery on the moon.

B. Directions: listen to the news item again and complete the following chart. Announcements from NASA News Conference Findings Water pretty much over the moon, though more toward the poles, and concentrated at the lunar surface. Source Data from an American instrument flying on an Indian satellite, and confirming data from two other spacecrafts. Controversy It’s unclear whether they’re seeing water or hydroxyl. Reasons for That data comes not from examining the rocks on the moon directly, but from different opinions analyzing spectrographs of the light reflected from the moon. Different chemicals have different spectrographic signatures, but those of water and hydroxyl are very similar.

News Item 2

First Spaceman from Africa The Soyuz rocket lifted off on schedule Thursday morning from launch pad number one at Russia's Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. Aboard was the ship's commander, veteran cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, Italian Air Force pilot Roberto Vittori and South African Internet entrepreneur* Mark Shuttleworth. The 28-year-old multimillionaire had trained for eight months and spent a reported $20 million to

fulfill his childhood dream of going into space. Family members who had flown to Kazakhstan for the occasion watched the liftoff reportedly with big smiles and tears of joy.

The Soyuz will fly to the International Space Station, where it is expected to dock on Saturday. The crew's main mission is to deliver a new Soyuz capsule to be kept at the space station for use as an escape vehicle if needed. Mark Shuttleworth is also to conduct experiments on how animal stem cells react in zero gravity.

The space tourist's trip has been warmly welcomed in South Africa, where his adventure has received blanket media coverage. He is the first African to go into space and has been dubbed the \by many back home, including Nelson Mandela.

Russia initiated the space tourism idea, seeing it as a way to bring badly needed cash into its ailing space program.

Exercise A

Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.

This news item is about the first spaceman from Africa and his adventure with astronauts.

Exercise B

Directions: Listen to the news again and complete the following passage.

The Soyuz rocket lifted off on schedule at Russia's Baikonur base in Kazakhstan. Aboard was the ship's commander, an Italian Air Force pilot and South African Internet entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. The 28-year-old multimillionaire had trained for eight months and spent a reported $20 million to fulfill his childhood dream of going into space. Members of his family watched the launch with big smiles and tears of joy.

The Soyuz will fly to the International Space Station, where it is expected to dock on Saturday. The crew's main mission is to deliver a new Soyuz capsule for use as an escape vehicle if needed. Mark Shuttleworth is also to conduct experiments on how animal stem cells react in zero gravity. He is the first African to go into space and has been dubbed the \

News Item 3

40 years after man landed on the moon, and 39 years after Lovell returned to Earth, NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle in 2010. It is the only vehicle NASA has to carry astronauts into space. At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in late July, NASA held meetings with an independent review panel（独立评审委员会） commissioned by President Barack Obama to evaluate the future of manned space flight（载人航天飞行）.

Part of the meeting focused on the next generation spacecraft that would replace the Space Shuttle Orbiter (航天飞机轨道器). NASA is developing the Constellation program（星座计划）, a beefed-up Apollo-like initiative. It uses a rocket, called Ares, to put a single-use spacecraft, called the Orion, into orbit, and eventually back to the

moon.

Another option favored by the presidential panel is extending the life of the Space Shuttle through 2014, keeping it flying missions until a new spacecraft is ready for flight. The panel is also reviewing an extension to the proposed life（拟用年限） of the International Space Station, currently scheduled to end its mission by 2015. A: Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary. This news item is about NASA’s plan about the future of manned space flight. B: Directions: Listen to the news again and answer the following questions. 1. NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle in 2010.

2. NASA held meetings with an independent review panel commissioned by President Barack Obama to evaluate the future of manned space flight.

3. Part of the meeting focused on the next generation spacecraft that would replace the Space Shuttle Orbiter.

4. The Constellation program is a beefed-up Apollo-like initiative. It uses a rocket, called Ares, to put a single-use spacecraft, called the Orion, into orbit, and eventually back to the moon.

5. Another option favored by the presidential panel is extending the life of the Space Shuttle through 2014, keeping it flying missions until a new spacecraft is ready for flight.

6. The panel is also reviewing an extension to the proposed life of the International Space Station, currently scheduled to end its mission by 2015.

Section Four Supplementary Exercises

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