Unit 4 Section Ⅱ Reading and Thinking-【金版教程】2024-2025学年高中英语必修第三册创新导学案word（人教版2019）

“Are we alone? What's out there？” People have always looked up at the stars and wondered about space. Today, scientists design vehicles to carry astronauts into space to make important discoveries1. Space__exploration__has__come__a__long__way,__and__we__now__hope__to__discover__other__planets__that__are__suitable__enough__to__support__life.

1不定式短语作目的状语

Before the mid­20th century, most people felt travelling into space2 was only a dream that3 could never come true. However, scientists were determined to realise that dream.  After__many__experiments,__they__succeeded__in__making__rocket

2动名词短语作主语

3引导定语从句，修饰dream

4不定式短语作后置

s__that__could__escape__Earth's__gravity. On 4 October 1957, the Sputnik 1 satellite was launched by the USSR and successfully orbited around Earth. Afterwards, the USSR focused on sending people into space, and on 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in the world to enter space4. Over eight years later, on 20 July 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon, famously saying5，“That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Following this, there were many more important space achievements.  For example, on 5 September 1977, America's NASA space agency launched Voyager 1  to study deep space6, and7 it still transmits data to this day. And the International Space Station (1998) has provided a continuous human presence in space, with astronauts from many different countries on board8.

定语，修饰the__first__person

5现在分词作伴随状语

6不定式短语作目的状语

7连接并列分句

8with复合结构作状语

Although__scientists__try__to__make__sure__nothing__goes__wrong,__accidents__can__still__happen. For example, all the astronauts on the Soyuz 11, Challenger, and Columbia spacecraft died during their missions. However, while9 such disasters brought much sadness and disappointment, the desire to explore the

9引导让步状语从句，意为“虽然，尽管”

10不定式短语作后置定语，修饰the__desire

11引导表语从句

12动名词短语作介词of的宾语