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第一部分 话题读写练
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山西英语
英语
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话题角度:介绍地球奥秘、星球星系、航空航天的新进展和为航空航天事业做出贡献的人等
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Passage 1
【读前预先练】
1. since prep. ____________
自……以来
2. light-years ______
光年
3. be able to ______
能够
4. a little bit __________
有一点儿
优质语篇读写练(4篇)
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5. planet n. ______
行星
6. take a long time to do sth. __________________
花很长时间做某事
7. show up ______________
看得见;到场
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Do you ever get the feeling that you are being watched?Well, you might be right. According to a study by Nature on June 23, scientists have found 1. _____ 1,715 stars could have watched the earth since people were on it.
The team looked at 331,312 stars within 326 light-years of the earth. In all those stars, only 1,715 of 2. ______ could see the earth in the last
5,000 years. And another 319 stars will be also able 3. ____ see us in the next 5,000 years. “4. _______ I look up at the sky, it looks a little bit friendlier because it’s like someone is saying hello,” said Lisa, leader
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of the institute(研究所) at Cornell University, US and the study’s writer.
If there 5. ___ life on a planet around one of those 1,715 stars, they could easily see that there is life here because of the oxygen(氧气)on the earth. If that didn’t tell them, then the radio waves will also tell them the fact 6. _____ there is life on the earth.
Why haven’t we heard 7. ______ anyone from out space yet?That’s 8.
_________ it takes a long time for messages to travel between stars. When a message arrived, living things would not be there anymore. This long time gives different life fewer chances to talk 9. ______ each other. So we should not expect aliens to show 10. ____ anytime soon.
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一、长难句分析
1. If that didn’t tell them, then the radio waves will also tell them the
fact that there is life on the earth.
翻译:
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分析:本句中,前一分句为由if引导的__________从句,后面分句中包含
一个由that引导的________从句,该从句对“_________”进行解释说明。
如果那不能告诉他们,那么无线电波也会告诉他们地球上有生命的事实。
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