Unit 6 developing ideas Eyes Upon the Night 课文语法填空--高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第四册.docx

Unit 6 Space and beyond Developing ideas Eyes Upon the Night The night sky 1________(be) an endless source of fascination since the start of human history. For example, the mysterious large-eyed, bronze statues of the ancient Shu Kingdom, discovered at the Chinese archeological site at Sanxingdui, 2_______________(believe) to have been able to look across great distances into the stars. In reality, humans can see very little of the night sky with the naked eye. And, for a long while, people were unable to understand 3________they could see. Not4___________(know) what the stars were, people in ancient times used their imaginations 5___________(create) a world in the sky. Our power 6_______________(investigate) and thus understand space changed dramatically when the first telescope 7_______________(angel) at the night sky, increasing as it did the power of the human eye and enabling us 8____________(understand) that the universe is far larger than was previously imaginable. The planets 9______________(see) to be worlds similar 10. _____ our own, many of them even 11 ___________(have) their own moons. Soon, it 12 ______________(understand) that the Sun was just one star among billions in the galaxy we call the Milky Way. Some 300 years later, we learnt that the Milky Way itself was just one galaxy among 13 _____________(billion) of others, spread across the 14________________(black) of space like great islands of light and matter floating in a vast cosmic ocean. Almost 400 years after the first Earth-based telescope 15 _______________(invent), the Hubble Space Telescopes was launched into orbit, 16.__________(give) astronomers indeed all of us- the first breathtakingly beautiful images of our universe 17.____________(take) from beyond Earth. Nothing in history has allowed us 18.____________(see) so much over such great distances, from enormous clouds of gas 19.__________ stars are being born, to huge black holes, and even to new planets 20.___________ we might c