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第八課 Space Tourism

王前恩、黃立翰、莊雅涵、蘇大森、陳靜宜. 第八課 Space Tourism. Main idea 1. Human’s foray into space is difficult in early days, but now people with enough money can visit space easily. Vocabulary. Foray : to make a raid Potential : possible Colonization : to settle in a  colony .

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第八課 Space Tourism

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  1. 王前恩、黃立翰、莊雅涵、蘇大森、陳靜宜 第八課Space Tourism

  2. Main idea 1 • Human’s foray into space is difficult in early days, but now people with enough money can visit space easily.

  3. Vocabulary • Foray: to make a raid • Potential: possible • Colonization: to settle in a colony. • Distant: far off or apart in space (dis:=un=de =negative ) • Ordinary: normal

  4. Main idea 2 • At first, the space travelers were called space tourists, but later they were called “spaceflight participants”.

  5. Vocabulary • Adventure: a bold, usually risky undertaking • Estimate: an approximate judgment • Object: to refuse  (Ob: toward) • Term: a word or group of words designating something • Perform: execute • Research: to make researches (re: again / search: to explore in order to discover) • Assist: aid to • Refer: to assign to a class (re: again) • Voyager: a journey, travel, or passage, especially one to a distant land or by sea or air

  6. Main idea 3 • This paragraph points out Dennis Tito is the first person to purchase a ride on a space ship and Charles Simonyi is the first person to make a repeat space journey.

  7. Main idea 4 • This paragraph points out that one company plans to sell space walks, in which spaceflight participants can cavort in space while tethered to the ship by a special line in the future.

  8. Vocabulary • Vocabulary • Participant (n) 參與者 • someone who takes part in an activity • Orbit (v) 環繞 • the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another • Edge (n) 邊緣 • a strip near the boundary of an object • Engine (n) 發動機 • motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work • Weightlessness (n) 無重狀態 • Gaze (v) 凝視 • a long fixed look

  9. Main idea 5 • Space Adventures isn’t the only company devising plans to launch ordinary citizens into space.

  10. Vocabulary • 後綴詞：adventure accommodate名詞：space company guest形容詞：ordinary former pop shaped動詞：devising launch estimate

  11. Main idea 6 • The main idea of the paragraph is to say that Bigelow Aerospace wants to wants to launch a series of habitable complexes in the suborbital atmosphere. His firm plans to unveil the first module, called Sun dancer.

  12. Vocabulary • Entrepreneur 企業家; 事業創辦者 • Facility 能力; 技能(+in/with) • Launch 使(船)下水 • Habitable 可居住的; 適於居住的 • Complex 複雜的, 錯綜複雜的; 難懂的 • Suborbital (人造衛星因高度不夠)未進入地球軌道的 • Firm 穩固的; 牢固的; 結實的 • Unveil 除去...的面紗(或覆蓋物); 揭開...... • Module 模數(建築部件等的度量單位); (航天器的)艙 • Accommodate 能容納; 能提供...膳宿 • Craft 工藝, 手藝 • Orbital 軌道的 • Ordinary 通常的, 平常的 • Unique 唯一的, 獨一無二的; 獨特的 • Relative 相對的, 比較的 • Bargain 協議特價商品, 便宜貨 • Project 計劃; 企劃

  13. Main Idea7 • Virgin Galactic hopes to offer civilian space flights within a few years.

  14. Vocabulary • Boundary 邊界 • the closure minus the interior of a subset of a topological space. • bound限於(場所等)的 • -ary與...有關的 • Civilian平民 • A civilian under international humanitarian law (also known as the laws of war) is a person who is not a member of his or her country's armed forces or other militia. • civil市民的 • ian人 • Inaugural開始的 • An inauguration is a formal ceremony to mark the beginning of a major political leader's term of office.

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