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UNIT 4 SPACE EXPLORATION
Listening and Speaking
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.
The first man
to land on the moon.
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。
Talk about how to become an astronaut
You are going to listen to an interview with an astronaut. Before you listen, discuss the questions in groups.
China’s first astronaut:
the first Chinese woman to reach space:
the first Chinese to carry out a spacewalk:
the first man to travel into space:
the first person to walk on the moon:
Yang Liwei
Liu Yang
Zhai Zhigang
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
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Do you know about the selection procedure for astronauts?
requirements
height
weight
Educational background
?
Health condition
Listen to an interview with Yang Liwei to learn how he became China’s first astronaut.
interviewer
interviewee
Listening
Listen for the basic information
1. The conversation happened in a stadium.
2. The audience is curious about how Yang Liwei became the first Chinese astronaut.
3. Mr Yang always believed that he would become an astronaut one day.
4. Mr Yang was selected to attend pilot training with 13 other people.
5. To become an astronaut in China, you have to have 1,350 hours of flying experience.
6. Astronauts not only had to learn how to use space equipment, but also had to do a lot of mental and physical training.
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studio
Welcome to our show.
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F
never
I never thought...
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Altogether, 14 of us were chosen from...
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I had 1350 hours ..., which I think really helped me.
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1. Yang Liwei graduated from college at the age of _____.
2. Before he joined China’s space programme, Mr Yang trained as a fighter pilot for about ____ years.
3. Mr Yang was one of the ____ pilots who were chosen to train for space flights.
4. At the time when Mr Yang entered the space programme, astronauts had to be shorter than _____ cm in height and le