新英美报刊选读（第五版） 课件 unit 5 passage 2.pptx

Unit 5The First Light Machine Passage 2The First Light MachineBackground InformationWarming-up QuestionsOrganization Analysis Detailed ReadingPost-ReadingBackground Information The most exciting thing that has ever happened in cosmology is the launch of the James Webb telescope on December 18, 2021. It is a wonder in science. The telescope will search for strange new world and for life in our galaxy and beyond. We might be on the edge of finding the answer to the biggest question in science: are we alone in the universe? The telescope might change the way we understand the universe and show us things that we have never seen before. No wonder some scientists call it a time machine. Listen to the news and answer the questions: Question 1: Who is the Webb telescope named after?Question 2: What is the Webb telescope optimized for?The telescope was named after the second administrator of NASA who led the Apollo mission and was responsible for more than 75 launches in space in the 1960s.It is optimized for infrared wavelength and will complement the Hubble telescope’s abilities. It will extend our discovery of the galaxy and exoplanet.Listen to the news and answer the questions: Question 3: What induced scientists to build the Webb telescope?Question 4: Why did some scientists call it a time machine?The Hubble telescope created a revolution in astronomy and raised new questions that required new, different, and more powerful telescope to be built.Because the longer wavelength coverage will allow the telescope to look further back in time to find the first galaxies and stars that formed in the early universe.Listen to the news again and fill in the blanks. The Webb telescope will complement the Hubble telescope’s abilities and ____________________________and exoplanets_________________. The Hubble telescope created a revolution in astronomy and raised new questions ______________________________________________________. extend our discovery of galaxiesthat could have