2024届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案 太空话题

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜将骨灰送入太空深处：人类最浪漫的墓葬之地？ 据多家媒体近日报道，人类首次商业化太空葬礼于美国当地时间1月8日凌晨启航，共计330份装有人类骨灰和DNA样本的钛金属“胶囊”被送往太空，其中包括美国前总统华盛顿、肯尼迪的头发样本。之后，一部分钛金属“胶囊”将离开地月系统，进入约3亿公里外的深空，无限期地绕太阳运行。一场“太空葬礼”的价格不菲，收费最高昂的“深空葬礼”价格约1.3万美元。为什么人们会选择“太空葬”这种形式？我们该如何与这个世界告别？ Their Final Wish? A Burial in Space. by Jon Mooallem There are two ways to contemplate the question "Where do we go when we die"? One is philosophical, ultimately unanswerable; the other is logistical. Humans, being human, have tended to see them as being intertwined: The many traditions we've devised for handling our remains are meant to honor the selves that left those bodies behind. The seven people pictured here have chosen to send their ashes, or in some cases a sample of their DNA, into outer space. They have contracted with Celestis, one of a handful of companies offering such services. The people shown here settled on their final wishes for different reasons: spiritual, pragmatic, romantic. Many consider it the culmination of a lifelong fascination with space exploration, the impulse to look up with wonder. For some, a space burial signals acceptance of the idea that, in the end, there may be only a void awaiting us. For others, a space burial acts in defiance of that idea. In an era when many people are less likely to stick close to the places where they were raised and when landscapes are remade rapidly, it's understandable that the question of where, and in what form, we should remain for eternity is swinging wide open. Gray is a graphic designer who has worked on space-themed postage stamps for the United States Postal Service. Gray is single. She does not have children. Even if she wanted to be buried with her parents, there are no more open neighboring plots. Untethered from tradition, from any definitive physical resting place, she felt that launching her ashes into deep space made sense. "I'm interested in looking into the unknown, going into the unknown," she says.