高二英语TheConquestoftheUniverse课件.ppt

Space: the Final Frontier Part 1: human exploration of the universe Part 2: a description about the Challenger disaster Para. 1: the first moon landing Para. 2: single spaceships and the first shuttle flight Paras. 3-5: the Challenger disaster Part 1 To get detail information 1. How did people feel when they watched the first moon landing? A. Excited. B. Nervous. C. Excited but nervous. D. Worried. 2. What was different about the space shuttle? A. It was smaller. B. It was better. C. It could be used several times. D. It could hold more people. Reading ComprehensionⅠ 3. What did the Challenger disaster teach the world? A. We’d better not be an astronaut. B. Space flight was still dangerous. C. Space flight will be dangerous for ever. D. We should respect all of the astronauts. 4. Why does the writer call the passage Space: the Final Frontier? A. Because there are no places on Earth. B. Because he is interested in space travel. C. Because there are no new places left for humans to discover and we haven’t exploded space. (1) Armstrong is the first one to set foot on the moon back in 1969. (2) The aim of the Columbia was to test the new shuttle system. (3) The Challenger took off on 12th April, 1981. (4) Christa McAuliffe never came back to her classroom. T T F T True or false Reading ComprehensionⅡ 1. How did people feel about space travel a few years later? They got used to it and thought it was safe and normal. 2. Why did people want to watch the Challenger take off? Because it was a new spacecraft and it had a teacher on board as well as astronauts. Reading Comprehension Ⅲ 3. How did the boy feel before the take-off? He was very excited. 4. What happened when the Challenger exploded? They all started screaming. 5. How did he feel after witnessing the accident on TV? He was in a state of shock. 6. What did he think about space travel a f