高中英语语法讲解与测试-话题语言应用 天文.docVIP

话题语言应用 -- 天文 语言积累 交际用语 指示（Instructions） Please pay attention to … 请注意…… Please check that … 请检查一下…… Please look at… 请看…… Make sure that… 要确保…… Don’t forget to … 不要忘了…… Watch out for… 小心…… You need… 你需要…… You’d better… 你最好……You must/mustn’t…你一定/绝不能…… 话题词句 【高清课堂：403627 Astronomy 探秘天文学 走进宇宙】 What interests you in astronomy? How much do you know about the stars around us? 拓展阅读 Astronomy In ancient times, many people believed the earth was a flat disc. Well over 2,000 years ago; the ancient Greek philosophers were able to put forward two good arguments proving that it was not. Direct observations of heavenly bodies were the basis of both these arguments. First, the Greeks knew that during eclipses of the moon the earth was between the sun and the moon, and they saw that during these eclipses, the earths shadow on the moon was always round, they realized that this could be true only if the earth was spherical, It the earth was a flat disc, then its shadow during eclipses would not be a perfect circle; it would be stretched out into a long ellipse. The second argument was based on what the Greeks saw during their travels. They noticed that the North Star, or Polaris, appeared lower in the sky when they traveled south, in the more northerly regions, the North Star appeared to them to be much higher in the sky. By the way, it was also from this difference in the apparent position of the North Star that the Greeks first calculated the approximate distance around the circumference of the earth, a figure recorded in ancient documents says 400.000 stadium, thats the plural of the world stadium. Today, its not known exactly what length one stadium represents, but lets say it was about 200 meters, the length of many athletic stadiums. This would make the Greeks estimate about twice the figure accepted today, a very goodestimate for those writing so long before even the first telescope was invented. 写作运用 写作指导 看图作文 看图作文也叫做图画式作文，是一种常见的高考题型。它是指根据图画所提供的信息写一篇短文，或叙述一件事，或