UNIT 4 SPACE EXPLORATION（Word教参）-【优化指导】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语必修第三册（人教版2019）

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. —Neil Armstrong 神秘感激发好奇心，而好奇心则是人们探索未知事物的前提。——尼尔·阿姆斯特朗 单元素养目标 文化、思维、学习 能力目标 了解人类太空探索的历史成就，积累天文知识，提高科学素养；能够梳理人类太空探索的历史发展、成就及其重要意义；能够分析和评判关于太空探索的不同立场和态度；能够准确而简练地归纳段落大意，通过理解和记忆词块提高语言学习的效率和语言运用能力 语言能力目标 核心单词 astronaut，procedure，mental，centimetre，intelligent，rocket，gravity，frontier，vehicle，universe，determine，satellite，launch，orbit，mankind，agency，data，disappointed，desire，independent，signal，recycle，muscle，lack，otherwise，beyond，solar，current，sufficient，towel，tissue，facility，globe，argue，shallow，pattern，monitor，regular，limited，attach，oxygen 重点词块 carry on，on board，in the hope of doing sth.，so as to (do sth.)，solar system，figure out，result in，as a result，provide for sb.，in closing，run out 单元语法 动词不定式(短语)作定语和状语 写作能力 写一篇关于是否支持太空探索的议论文 单元话题导入 [品读话题短文] The Call of the Challenger Ever since Neil Armstrong first set foot on① the Moon back on 20 July 1969，people have become accustomed to② the notion of space travel③.Millions watched that first lunar landing on black and white television sets，their hearts in their mouths，aware of④ how arduous and hazardous an undertaking it was，and of the many things that could go wrong⑤.With Armstrong's now famous words “That's one small step for man，one giant leap for mankind”，what had once been considered impossible had now been achieved.Guided by a computer that was much less powerful than the ones used by today's average school students，all three astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission made it safely back to Earth. Following the Moon landings，space travel rapidly became unexceptional to the public，as innovations succeeded each other.By the early 1980s，the great rockets previously used in the American space programme⑥ had been replaced by the space shuttle⑦.When the Challenger space shuttle took off⑧ on 28 January 1986，the world seemed to have lost its wonder at the amazing achievements of the astronauts involved.But this was going to be no ordinary excurs