1、Part I Getting readyA.B. Keys:1: July 20. 1969 2: U.S. 3: descended 4: the first person 5: step 6: leap 7: two-and-a-half hour 8: flag 9: a phone called 10: feat 11: heavens 12. world 13: moment 14: people 15: pride 16: astronauts 17: module 18. legacy 19: demonstration 20: chained 21: further 22: u
2、nlimitedPart II Standing on the moonA. Keys:1: the fifth person 2: nine hours and twenty-three minutes3: gather and photograph 4:peacefull, insignificantB. Keys:1: F 2: F 3: F 4: T Part III Grand projects of the ageA. Keys: 4, 2, 5, 3, 1, 6B. Keys:1: 1931, 102-floor high, 42 years, its limestone maj
3、esty2: 2009, $24 billion, electrity3: $330 billion, (still counting), 4300 miles, (still counting), automobile society, jobs, trade4: 1994, 24 miles, England, the Continent5: 1914, $380 million, 7800 milesPart IV More about the topic: World Wars (I one giant leap for mankind.”In a July 1994 intervie
4、w with a writer for the New York Times, Alan Shepard talked about looking at earth:”I remember being struck by the fact that it looks so peaceful from that distance, but remembering on the other hand all the confrontation going on all over that planet and feeling a little sad that people on planet E
5、arth couldnt see that same sight because obviously all the military and political differences become so insignificant seeing it from the distance.”In the interview with Alan Shepard that you will hear on the radio program Fresh Air, he reminisces with Terry Gross about his adventure on the moon.B.T:
6、 What surprised you most about how the surface the moon looked?A: I dont think we had any surprises about the actual surface of the moonabout the barrenness. We had looked at picture of our landing site taken by previous missions. We had worked with models that were made from those pictures. We knew
7、 the general configuration of where the craters were supposed to be. We knew the objective of Cone Crater, which was the one we climbed up the side of to get rock samples. There werent any surprises there. the surprise I had was standing on the surface after wed been there for a few minutes, having
8、a chance to rest a little bit, and looking up at the earth for the first timeyou have to look up because thats where it is. And the sky is totally black, and here you have a planet which is four times the size of moon as we look at it from earth, and you also have color. You have a blue ocean(s) and
9、 the brown landmassesthe brown continentsand you can see ice on the caps on the North Pole, and so on.Its just an absolute, incredible view, and then you sayahheyumthat looks a little small to me .It looks like itit does have limits. Its a little fragile. You know, down here we think its infinite. W
10、e dont worry about resources-.un. Up there youre saying,” Gosh, you know, its a shame those folks down there cant get along togetherahand think about trying to conserve, to save what limited resources they have.” And its just very emotional. I actually shed a couple of tears looking up at the earth
11、and having those feelings.Part III Grand projects of the age As a mighty symbol of rebirth, the 102-floor Empire State Building opened in the teeth of the Depression 1931. Built by General Motors executive John Raskob, the building remained for 42 years the worlds tallest. A few skyscrapers have sin
12、ce soared higher, but none has surpassed its limestone majesty. Chinese people have dreamed of taming the Yangtze, Chinas longest river, whose floodwaters have claimed the lives of millions. Now people are expecting this $24 billion Three Gorges Dam to harness the river, giving the nation a great le
13、ap forward as it generates electricity for Chinas fast growing cities and makes the river more navigable. It is scheduled to be finished in 2009. Started in 1956, the Interstate Highway System was created by Dwight Eisenhower. The 43 000-mile, $330 billion (and still counting) network is the greates
14、t project ever. It made the U.S. an automobile society, created millions of jobs and laced the country with superhighways that increased mobility, encouraged trade and opened the countryside to development. Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linki
15、ng England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English workers used 1000-ton boring machines to dig through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides met on Dec.1, 1990 and the Channel was completed in 1994. Like the Suez Cana
16、l that preceded it, the $380 million project the Panama Canal was an epic assault on nature that employed as many as 43 400 workers at a time. More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The canal cut the voyage from New York to California by
17、 7 800 miles when it was completed in 1914.Part IV More about the topic: World Wars (I& II)MissingPart V Do you know?The photograph shows a man kissing a woman. And its quite a kiss. He has a bent almost over backwards. The photographer was the renowned Alfred Eisenstein, who published the picture o
18、n the cover of a nation wide magazine. But since the subject was kissing, its hard to see their faces clearly. So for 50 years no one could figure out who they were.It is one of the most famous kisses in American history: a sailor and a nurse in a victory embrace right in the middle of Broadway. The
19、 image was captured on 14 August, 1945 by photographer Alfred Eisenstein and printed on the cover of Life magazine. But the kissers whose faces are obscured remained anonymous for years. In 1980, Edith Sheng came forward to admit she was the nurse. Although she recognized herself from the minute she
20、 saw the magazines cover, she said she was too embarrassed to tell anyone because she didnt know who the sailor in the picture was. “I was just standing there and I . grabbed and this is a stranger. But this is a man who fought for us, and who helped end the war.“Miss Sheng says shes received severa
21、l calls over the past 15 years from men who claimed to be the sailor who kissed her, but she says none of their stories rang true. But Carols Muscarrela says he didnt have any trouble persuading Edith Sheng that he was the man in Eisensteins photograph when he met her in July, nearly 50 years after
22、their first encounter. Mr Muscarrela said he didnt even know the picture had been taken because he was shipped out a few days later and didnt return for 3 months. He said his mother saw the picture, however, and was shocked.“My mother went to visit the doctors office in Berklin. This is several week
23、s after the photograph was taken and she picked up a magazine in the doctors office and she said: This is my boy. This is my little boy.“When he did learn about the picture, Carols said he didnt come forward to identify himself because he was happily married and really had no interest in the publicity. But, he says, a friend persuaded him to come forward for the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the most famous kiss in American history.
