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Unit 4
Space Exploration
Listening and Speaking
You’re going to listen to an interview with an astronaut. Before you listen, discuss the questions in groups.
1. Can you name any famous astronauts from China or abroad
China’s first astronaut
The first Chinese woman to reach space
The first Chinese woman to carry out a spacewalk
The first man to travel into space
The first man to walk on the moon
Yuri Gagarin
尤里·加加林
Neil Armstrong
尼尔·阿姆斯特朗
杨利伟
刘洋
王亚平
You’re going to listen to an interview with an astronaut. Before you listen, discuss the questions in groups.
2. Do you know anything about the selection procedure for astronauts
Education Background
Health Condition
Experience
physical and mental health
1. The audience is curious about how Yang Liwei became the first Chinese astronaut.
2. Mr Yang always believed that he would become an astronaut one day.
3. Mr Yang was selected to attend pilot training with 13 other people.
4. To become an astronaut in China, you have to have 1,350 hours of flying experience.
5. Astronauts not only had to learn how to use space equipment, but also had to do a lot of mental and physical training.
Listen to the interview and tick the correct statements.
2. He dreamed to be an astronaut but he never thought his wish would come true.
4. It’s not mentioned.
Listen for numbers
Numbers questions are typically related to: time, telephone numbers, addresses, prices, weights, distances, etc. When you listen for numbers, you need to pay special attention to big numbers as well as those that sound quite similar, such as thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty, etc.
Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers.
Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers.
1. Yang Liwei graduated from college at the age of ____.
2. Before he joined China’s space programme, Mr. Yang trained as a
fighter pilot for ___ years.
3. Mr Yang was one of the ____ pilots who were chosen to train
for space flights.
4. At the time when Mr Yang entered the space programme, astronauts
had to be shorter than ___ cm in height and less than __ kg in weight.
5. Mr Yang became China’s first astronaut when he was ___ years old.
22
10
14
172
70
38
Listen to the interview again and make a list of the requirements for becoming an astronaut.
Education background: ______ degree, trained to be a __________
Experience: ____ hours of flight experience
Health condition: must be in perfect _____________
Courses: ______, ______ and ________
Special training: practise using _____________, and do a lot of _____ and ______ training
college
fighter pilot
1,350
health and shape
English
science
astronomy
space equipment
mental
physical
Interviewer: Today we are pleased to chat with Mr Yang Liwei, the first Chinese
astronaut.
Mr Yang: Thanks you.
Interviewer: Mr Yang, our audience is very curious about how you succeeded in
becoming China’s first astronaut. It must have been a very difficult
thing to achieve. Did you always want to be an astronaut
Mr Yang:Yes, I dreamt of it when I was young, but I never thought my wish
would come true. It took a long time. First, I got my college degree
when I was 22, and then I worked as a __________ for around 10 years.
I finally became China’s first astronaut when I was 38 years old.
Interviewer: Oh, so you must be a really _________ pilot. Do you think that was
one of the reasons why you were chosen for the ________________
Mr Yang: Sure, I had 1,350 hours of flight experience, which I think really helped
me.
Education Background
experienced
fighter pilot
space programme
Experience
Interviewer: So how difficult was it to join the space programme
Mr Yang: There was a lot of competition. Altogether, 14 of us were chosen from
among 1,500 pilots to train for space flights.
Interviewer: That sounds really difficult. Did you also have to be _____________
__________
Mr Yang: Yes, at the time, you had to be shorter than 172 centimetres in height
and weigh less than 70 kilograms. You also had to be in perfect health
and perfect shape.
Interviewer: So you were the perfect choice! As we all know, an astronaut needs
to be healthy and calm in order to work in space. But you also had to
study a lot, too, right
Mr Yang: Yes, I had to learn English, science, and astronomy. I also had to
practise using _______________, and do a lot of mental and physical
training. It was very tiring, but I was so proud to have the opportunity.
Health Condition
Special Training
a certain size
and weight
space equipment
Courses
Work in pairs. Discuss whether you would like to be an astronaut in the future and give your reasons. Use what you have learnt from the interview to help you.
A: You know, I think being an astronaut would be cool.
B: Do you want to work in space in the future
A: I'm not sure, but I think it might be too difficult for me. There are so many requirements. First of all, you must be intelligent enough to get a related college degree. Then you have to...
B: So what might be the most difficult part for you
A: I guess it might be the...
1. What do you think of being an astronaut
2. Do you want to be an astronaut in the future Why or why not
Unit 4
Space Exploration
Pronunciation
Work Read the poem. Mark the stressed syllables with ○ and unstressed syllables with ○. Then try reading the poem to each other with rhythm.
Gravity
One day, Isaac Newton sat Not only apples, but all of us
And saw an apple fall. Stay still though Earth spins round.
Then he thought, “It’s not just fruit! Of course, we know that this is true!
Something pulls us all.” Earth goes round but we stay still.
“There is a force,” he said to himself, What goes up must come down,
“That pulls things to the ground, And it always will.”
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
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○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
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1. Education background
To become a fully q_______(有资格的) astronaut,
ualified
2. Experience
3. receive extremely d________(要求高的) physical training
4. undergo extreme mental challenges
master or PHD degree _____ engineering, science, math, astronomy
learn to stay c______ under pressure
learn to c__________ with the teammates
handle the ___________(突发事件)
need to be p_________ in the job (精通的)
f___________ the equipment in aircraft or spaceship
have energy to wear the spacesuit
adapt to the ____________
(失重)
in
roficient
amiliarize
emanding
weightlessness
alm
ooperate
emergency

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