【课堂新坐标】2016-2017学年高中英语 Module 5 The Conquest of the Universe Section Ⅳ Grammar Writing学业分层测 外研版选修8.docVIP

Module 5 The Conquest of the Universe Section Ⅳ Grammar Writing Ⅰ.完成句子 1．他没来的原因是他不得不照顾母亲。 That he didnt turn up was ________________________. 2．你说大家应该相互平等，这就是我不同意的地方。 You are saying that everyone should be equal，and this is __________________. 3．他问我哪个队能赢得这场比赛。 【导学号 He asked me___________________. 4．他又撒谎了这个事实让我们感到很吃惊。 The fact ________________ greatly surprised us. 5．谁来这儿都受欢迎。 ______________ will be welcome. 【答案】　1.because he had to look after his mother　2.where I disagree　3.which team could win the match　4.that he lied again　5.Whoever comes here Ⅱ.阅读理解 A A home science experiment recently took the world by storm.Two teens from Toronto，in Canada，sent a Lego man rising above the Earth and captured their tiny astronauts trip on film. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad，both 17，used a weather balloon to launch their plastic lego model 16 miles above the Earth.This is inside a part of Earths atmosphere. The two teens were inspired by a similar project performed by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)．The MIT students had launched a weather balloon with a camera into near space and taken many unusual images of the Earth.Mathew and Asad then spent four months figuring out how to launch their own spacecraft into the space. Traveling to space is expensive for NASA，but Mathew and Asad worked hard to keep their costs down.They bought much of their equipment used and even sewed the Lego mans parachute (降落伞) by hand.In total，the project cost only $400. “We had a lot of anxiety on launch day because there were high winds when we were going up，” Mathew told reporters.They had to pump extra helium into the balloon so that it would rise quickly and avoid being blown too far off course by the strong winds. The toy astronauts journey lasted 97 minutes before the balloon broke and he fell back to Earth.Mathew and Asad then spent two weekends looking for their spacecraft.It had landed 76 miles away from the launch site. The student scientists are currently fini