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Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars Listening 教学案 Using Language THEORIES OF GRAVITY Michael Jones of the New Space Magazine is talking with space traveller Li Yanping about changes in the theory of gravity. LY = Dr. Li Yanping MJ = Michael Jones Listen to Part 1. Listen again and fill in the blanks. MJ: Hello, Dr. Li Yanping. It’s so good of you to talk to me. Some _______ ask us why things always fall back to _____ if you throw them up in the air. Could you ________ it? LY: Well, at first people thought it was because the earth was the ______ of the universe. Of course that was ______. One day Isaac Newton watched an ____ fall to the ground. He said that something else must be ______ the apple back to earth. He called it “gravity”. MJ: I see. Did people _______ his idea? LY: They did. Later they worked out that bigger _______ (like the sun) have stronger gravity than _______ objects (like our planets). If you’re travelling in ____ space, you couldnt fall back to the earth. You’re just too far ______. Listen to Part 2. Listen again and fill in the blanks. MJ: Does it mean there’s no ______ in space? LY: No. In a spaceship you would feel the pull as it got ______ to such an object. You would travel faster and faster ________ it. MJ: Until you hit it? LY: Not exactly. You may _____ it very fast and then it would throw you out into space again. After that you would slow down to the _____ speed. MJ: How do you know this? LY: In ____ Einstein said that in space large objects make space-time bend; the larger the object, the ______ space-time bends. So time goes ______ in very strong gravity. MJ: What about ______ holes? LY: That’s a place in space which has such a strong ______ that nothing can escape ____ its gravity. There is a kind of edge around this mass. If you cross over this edge, it’s _________ for you to get back. However if you don’t cross this edge, you can still ______. Stephen Hawking has done a lot of ________ into black holes. He has shown that