晨读材料 Module 3 Journey to space 2023-2024学年外研版英语八年级下册

Module 3 Journey to space 【重点短语】 be up to 忙于；正在做 not yet 还没有 make a model spaceship 做宇宙飞船模型 a school project 学校项目 the latest news 最近的新闻 several months 几个月 on the news 在新闻中播放 a piece of news 一则消息/新闻 the discovery of... ⋯的发现 make some new discoveries有一些新发现 be far away from... 离...远 be close to... 离...近 in order to 以便，为了 get information 得到信息 search for information 搜素信息 on the earth 在地球上 hundreds of millions of years 数亿年 on any other planets 在其他任何行星上 go around the sun 绕着太阳转 sever other planets 其他七颗行星 none of... 没有... the solar system 太阳系 a small part of... 一小部分 in the universe 在宇宙中 communicate with sb. 与某人交流 【重点短语】 What are you up to? Has it arrived yet? Astronauts have already been to the moon. I haven't started yet because I'm not sure how to make it. No one has been to Mars yet, because Mars is very far away, much farther than the moon. Lots of scientists are working hard in order to send astronauts to Mars one day. Scientists think that there has been life on.the earth for hundreds of millions of years. However, we have not found life on any other planets yet. None of them has an environment like that of the earth, so scientists do not think they will find life on them. However, no spaceship has travelled far enough to reach other stars in our Galaxy. 【佳作背诵】 Dear aliens, I'm a boy from the earth, one of the planets of the solar system. The solar system include the earth and seven other planets, they all go around the sun. They are very far away from each other. There has been life on the earth for hundreds of millions of years. However, we haven' t found life on any other planets yet. Scientists have already discovered many other galaxies in the universe. They have also sent some spaceships into space. We all want to know more about the other galaxies and the universe. We know there must be life on other planets. The people on the earth are ve