DAY 18 中国电影行业终于在科幻片上发力-备战2020年高考英语之热点话题外刊精读（第一辑）

DAY 18 China’s Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race 自主学习文本 自我思考问题 自行查阅资料 I. 写出下列词汇的汉语释义 （1）第一组形容词1个（adj.）： 1. grandiose 2. impending 3. desperate 4. plausible （2）第二组动词6个（v.）： 1. represent 2. expand 3. devour 4. force 5. renaissance （3）第三组名词8个（n.）： 1. blockbuster 2. expectation 3. dawn 4. peril 5. scramble 6. humanity 7. annihilation 8. release II. 词汇拓展积累 1. desperate adj. 不惜冒险的→ n. 绝望，拼命，铤而走险 2. represent v. 代表→ n. 代表 3. expectation n. 预料，预期，期待 → v. 预料，预期，预计 4. annihilation n. 歼灭，消灭，毁灭 → v. 消灭，歼灭，毁灭 III. 重点短语英译汉 1.space exploration 2. 3. a new era 4. take place 5. a red giant 6. a new solar system 7. save humanity from annihilation 8. the Lunar New Year 9. a peak box-office period 10. be adapted from 11. plausible fantasies IV. 翻译下列句子 1. China was a latecomer to space exploration, and in the movies, it has been a latecomer to science fiction, too. That is about to change. 翻译： 2. The country’s first blockbuster set in space, “The Wandering Earth,” opens Tuesday amid grandiose expectations that it will represent the dawning of a new era in Chinese filmmaking. 翻译： 3.“The Wandering Earth,” shown in 3-D, takes place in a distant future in which the sun is about to expand into a red giant and devour the Earth. 翻译：