专题11 实习生发现新行星-备战2020高考英语外刊话题阅读语篇精选（第一辑）

This teen found a planet少年实习生发现一颗新行星 文章选自《经济学人》 读前导读： 当一名高中男生说出“普林斯顿大学、麻省理工学院和斯坦福大学是我的首选”，你可能会觉得他是一个不折不扣的学霸。而说出这句话的人是今天故事的男主角，他可以说是学霸中的“战斗机”了。这位来自美国的少年叫做沃尔夫·库基尔，高三结束后，他不仅获得了到 NASA 实习的机会，还在实习的第三天就立了大功 ——发现了一颗新的行星。试问有多少人能在如此青涩的年纪拥有这般硬核的经历？ 一：高级实词荟萃 1. internship/ˈɪn.tɝːn.ʃɪp/n. 2. orbit/ˈɔːr.bɪt/v. 3. Sift /sɪft/ v. 4. flag /flæɡ/ v. /n. 5. dip /dɪp/ n. /v. 6. elusive /iˈluː.sɪv/ adj. 7. transit /ˈtræn.zɪt/ n. 8. astrophysics /ˌæs.troʊˈfɪz.ɪks/ n. 9. humble /ˈhʌm.bəl/ v. /adj. 10. identified adj 11. citizen-scientist n 12. verify vt 13. colleague n 14. brightness n 15. indication n 16. particularly adv 17. involve vt 18. detect vt 19. observable adj 20. aid vt/n 21. contribution n 22. emphasize vt 23. verification n 24. process vt/n 二：高级词汇拓展 1. internship/ˈɪn.tɝːn.ʃɪp/n. 实习期的工作_______________ n. 实习医生；实习生 2. identified确定的 adj vt _________ 3. verify验证 vt n _________ 4. brightness亮度 n adj _________ vt _________ 5. indication指示 n vt _________ 6. particularly尤其 adv adj _________ 7. detect检测 vt n _________ 8. observable可观察的adj vt _________ n _________ 9. contribution贡献 n vt _________ 10. emphasize强调 vt n _________ 三：高级短语荟萃 1. zero in on the target. 2. a summer intern at a law firm 3. dip the fries in the ketchup 4. be humbled by sth. 5. a humble man. 6. sift through data 7. zero in on a system 8. orbiting stars 9. be verified as 英文报刊阅读思维力提升训练 How’s your internship going? This teen found a planet Last year, Wolf Cukier, 17, spent his summer vacation as few other rising seniors have: He helped discover a plane: TOI 1338 b, the newly identified world orbiting two stars more than 1,300 light years away. Last July, just after he finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York, Wolf started an internship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. During the first week of the internship, as he sifted through data that had been f