Unit 11 Space Travel课件.ppt

Unit 11 Space Travel;Spacewoman: Bitter yet Happy in Orbit;Spacewoman: Bitter yet Happy in Orbit;Spacewoman: Bitter yet Happy in Orbit;True/False Exercise The American astronaut Peggy Whitson, who had spent more than four months in space, said that she was happy in orbit except that she had brought along with her too much pork. Whitson had planned more than 50 shrimp meals for her stay in orbit. Whitson’s American crewmates like the shrimp because they get all her shrimp. Whitson is scheduled to return to Earth with her Russian crewmates Korzun and Treschev aboard a Russian space shuttle soon. The spacewoman never actually stands in weightlessness, but does sway about with her feet in foot restraints. The American spacewoman was quoted as saying that she got more hard skin on the bottom of her feet after being up in orbit for a few months. ;Tips for Reading 新闻语句中的超常定语 (一) American journalist Terry Anderson, the longest-held American hostage, and Germans Thomas Kemptaner and Heinrich Struebig, are the last remaining Western prisoners in Lebanon. The talks to resolve the 43-year-Arab- Israeli bitter conflict were launched on October 30 to a mostly symbolic session in Madrid, Spain. The city was totally paralyzed yesterday by about 20 barricades across main access routes as the public trans- port was at a no-one-dared-to-walk-in-the-street standstill.;1. 副词+过去分词 hard-won results highly-sophisticated technology richly-paid job newly-found coal mine sparsely-populated area well-informed circles The re-emergence of Nanjing Road as a top commercial district marks the end of long-fought battle for a dominant position in the city’s competitive retail market.;名词+过去分词 bottle-necked road college-bred white-collar girl disaster-hit area examination-directed education export-oriented economy state-owned enterprise wasp-waisted road As the Palestinian leader arrived home from Camp David last week, a