典范英语6-05-Captain Comet and the Purple Planet(2up打印版).docVIP

典范英语6-05 PAGE 6 第 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 第 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 页 共 NUMPAGES \* MERGEFORMAT 4 页 典范英语2up打印版，打印前请将版面分页设置为“2up”，即可在一张A4纸上打印两页。 Captain Comet and the Purple Planet 1 Spanner is bored It was quiet morning at stardust space Station. Captain Stella was checking the space shuttle.Captain Comet was watering the plants and Spanner the robot was bored. ‘Can I sit at the control desk?’He asked. ‘All right’, said Captain Comet,‘but don’t touch anything and don’t press that red button.’ Spanner sat down at the desk and looked at all the buttons. There were buttons to open all the space station doors and buttons to turn on all the lights.There was even a button to flush all the toilets!There was also a big red button, labeled Gravity. Spanner was not sure what ____ was. ‘I’ll press it very quickly’, said spanner, ‘to see what it does.’He pressed the red button. Captain Comet was watering the plants when he had a strange feeling.He was floating above the floor ,the plants all floating, too.He guessed what had happened. ‘Spanner! ’He shouted, ‘I told you not to touch that red button!’ There was no gravity in space, so the space station made its own. Spanner pressed the red button to make the gravity cone back on again,and all the pot plants fell to the floor. ‘Spanner!’Comet groaned. 2 It must be a planet Spanner was cleaning up the mess for the rest of the morning.When he turned the cleaner off, everyone heard a beeping noise. The noise was coming from the space scanner.Everyone stopped what they were doing and came to look. ‘The scanner has found something’, said Comet. ‘He pointed to a found something’, said Comet. ‘He pointed to a flashing, dot that was moving across the screen.I wonder what it is?’ Said Captain Stella. ‘Is it an asteroid?’Asked spanner.‘An asteroid?’Asked Spanner.‘An asteroid is a lump of rock that floats in space.’ ‘I know that!’Said captain Comet.‘Anyway, it’s too big to be an asteroid.’ Then it must be a planet, spanner said. ‘Where