施心远主编《听力教程》3 (第2版)Unit 8课件.pptVIP

Section Three News Focus: Space News Recognizing facts Summary News Item 1 Vocabulary molecule: [化]分子 hydroxyl: [化] 氢氧根 spectrograph: n. 摄谱仪; 光谱照片 Ex. A: Listen and complete the summary This news item is about water discovery on the moon. Findings Source Controversy Reasons for different opinions Announcements from NASA News Conference Water pretty much over the moon, though more toward the poles, and concentrated at the lunar surface. Data from an American instrument flying on an Indian satellite, and confirming data from two other spacecraft. It’s unclear whether they’re seeing water or hydroxyl. That data comes not from examining the rocks on the moon directly, but from analyzing spectrographs of the light reflected from the moon. Different chemicals have different spectrographic signatures, but those of water and hydroxyl are very similar. B. Directions: listen to the news item again and complete the following chart. Post-listening A research team led by Dr. Carle Pieters of Brown University announced the results at a NASA news conference on Thursday. Using data from an American instrument flying on Indian satellite - and confirming data from two other spacecraft - they found water pretty much all over the moon, though more toward the poles and concentrated at the lunar surface. Carle Pieters spoke of water, as did the other scientists, and certainly the news reports have headlined water found on the moon. But another member of the research team, Jack Mustard, also of Brown, said its unclear whether theyre seeing water - a molecule with two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen - H20 - or hydroxyl, a chemical with only one hydrogen atom - OH. That data comes not from examining the rocks on the moon directly, but from analyzing spectrographs of the light reflected from the moon. Different chemicals have different spectrographic signatures, but those of water and hydroxyl are very similar. Finding water, if thats what it is, probably wont be of