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【版本:人教 册别:必修三】
Reading for Writing:
Present an argument about space exploration
Unit 4 Space Exploration
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Leading-in
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What’s your opinion on space exploration?
Are you for or against it? And why?
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Reading
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Is exploring space a waste of time and money?
Countries around the globe are spending billions of dollars and lots of time on ______________________(各种太空任务), whether to Mars or other planets much further away. Some people___________ (认为) we should stop wasting time and money exploring space. Instead, we should_____________________(解决世界上穷人的温饱问题) and__________________________(尽快找到解决方案) other problems, such as pollution and fatal diseases. However, others feel this is ________________(一种肤浅的观点) which fails to realise how exploring space helps us.
Firstly, exploring space has already __________________(发挥了重要作用) in the fight against world hunger. It has directly___________ (促成)the many satellites that now orbit Earth. A numlber of the satelites record data on land and weather patterns. Then the data is transmitted to scientists on Earth. After careful analysis,
various space missions
argue that
feed the world’s poor
find immediate solutions to
a shallow view
made a difference
resulted in
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the scientists can provide__________________________________(有用的建议和意见) for farmers. ____________(因此), ______________________(基于太空的科学) has helped farming in its efforts to grow enough food to feed Earth’s _______________________(不断增长的人口).
Secondly, space exploration has already _____________________________________ (推动了科技进步) that benefit us all. ____________________(高端产品) around the world are made to a higher standard now because of ____________________(先进的技术) which was first created to _____________________(满足要求) for space exploration. For example, space technologies have helped the research and development of different types of new material. They have also he