Unit 1 Section 4 Using Language & Assessing Your Progress-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册（人教版）

Section 4　Using Language & Assessing Your Progress 阳光晨读 微点释疑 原|文|诵|读 THE FATHER OF CHINA􀆳S AEROSPACE Perhaps no other scientist has had a greater impact on China􀆳s aerospace① science than Qian Xuesen. Described by the authors of the Story of Qian Xuesen as a man with “great scientific thought and scientific spirit” who was patriotic② and served his homeland with effort, achievement, and devotion, Qian was an extremely well⁃respected man. 　　Born in Hangzhou in 1911, Qian attended schools in Beijing and then entered Shanghai Jiao Tong University to study Railway Mechanical③ Engineering. However, after the Songhu Battle broke out④ in 1932, Qian made the decision to switch his major to aviation⑤ because he realised that China needed its own powerful air force to protect and defend⑥ the country. 　　Qian went to the United States in 1935 to pursue his graduate studies. Over the course of the 1930s and 1940s, Qian became a pioneer in American jet⑦ and rocket technology. As a graduate assistant⑧ at the California Institute of Technology during the 1930s, Qian helped conduct important research into rocket propulsion, and in the 1940s, he and several other people founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, now one of NASA􀆳s leading space⁃exploration centres. 　　After overcoming some difficulties during his final few years in the US, Qian returned to China in 1955. He received a hero􀆳s welcome from his homeland and was put in charge of⑨ not only developing China􀆳s rocket science but also its space and missile⑩ programme. At that time, China was poor and its rocket science was undeveloped. No institute or university in China offered rocket science as a major, and there were no talents or experts in this field in China. Nevertheless, Qian did not let that discourage him from taking on the challenge. When asked “Can we Chinese possibly make missiles?”, his reply was a determined “Why not? We Chinese are able to make the same things that other people make.” 　　Under Qian􀆳s leaders