高中英语佛山高一02

[00:-1.00]lesson 5 Modern Heroes

[00:-2.00]Yang Liwei returns safely to earth after 21 hours in space

[00:-3.00]China's first manned spaceship lifted off at 9 a.m.on Wednesday,

[00:-4.00]Octber 15th,2003 in Jiuquan,Gansu.

[00:-5.00]The spaceship,called shenchou V,

[00:-6.00]was carrying China's first astronaut,Yang Liwei.

[00:-7.00]Yang, who was a pilot in the army,

[00:-8.00]was chosen from 1500 other army pilots

[00:-9.00]and started training fot his historic 1 space flight in 1998.

[00:10.00]The launch 2 went very smoothly,"When the spaceship was lifting off,

[00:11.00]I could really feel the high gravity",sai Yang Liwei.

[00:12.00]"When the spaceship separated from the rocket,

[00:13.00]I usddenly got a feeling of soaring 3 into the sky

[00:14.00]because of the zero gravity."

[00:15.00]During the 21-hour space flight,

[00:16.00]the Shenzhou V cicled the earth 14 times,

[00:17.00]While the spaceship wsa circling the earth for sixth time,

[00:18.00]Yang Liwei spoke 4 with ground control in Gansu Province.

[00:19.00]He wsa also able to speak with his wife and 8-year-old son.

[00:20.00]Yang Liwei had several talks to complete during the flight

[00:21.00]and only slept in the space capsule for about 3 hours.

[00:22.00]While he was sleeping,the spaceship circled the earth twice.

[00:23.00]When the spaceship was doing its seventh circle,

[00:24.00]Yang Liwei showed the flags of China and the United Nations,

[00:25.00]expressing the wishes of the Chinese people

[00:26.00]to exlpore and use space peacefully.

[00:27.00]At 6:23 a.m.on October 16th,

[00:28.00]Yang Liwei landed in Inner 5 Mongolia safely.

[00:29.00]He told reporters later,

[00:30.00]'The surface of the spaceship was glowing 6 red

[00:31.00]When it came back into the earth's atmosphere.

[00:32.00]When Shenzhou V released 7 its parachute,

[00:33.00]I felt the ship was shaking .'

[00:34.00]As Yang Liwei returned into the earth's atmosphere,

[00:35.00]helicopters were already flying to the landing 8 site,

[00:36.00]ready to collect him.

[00:37.00]Millions of people all over China were watching TV

[00:38.00]When the spaceship touched down safely.

[00:39.00]When Ynag Liwei climbed out of the spaceship,

[00:40.00]he smiled and waved to the crowds waiting for him.

[00:41.00]Yang Liwei was happy to be home

[00:42.00]but he said"I thought 21 hours was too short to stay in space.

[00:43.00]lesson 7 Sports Stars

[00:44.00]LAST WEEK,VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS

[00:45.00]played each other in the final of a tennis tournament.

[00:46.00]Venus is now eleventh in the world,

[00:47.00]and her younger sister Serena has moved up to third.

[00:48.00]The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California.

[00:49.00]It was full of drugs and violence.

[00:50.00]In a recent interview,

[00:51.00]Venus spoke about the time when she and Serena

[00:52.00]were practising on a local tennis court

[00:53.00]and they had to run and hide

[00:54.00]as bullets 9 started flying through the air.

[00:55.00]Finally,in 1991,

[00:56.00]the sisters and their family moved to a safer arer

[00:57.00]and since then they have never looked back.

[00:58.00]The sisters'flther,Richard,

[00:59.00]started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children.

[-1:00.00]He has always been very strict with his daughters,

[-1:-1.00]training them hard to compete against each other .

[-1:-2.00]Brandi,the sister's mother ,

[-1:-3.00]home-schoolde her daughters

[-1:-4.00]so that they completed their high school

[-1:-5.00]without disrupting 10 their tennis careers.

[-1:-6.00]Today,both sisters are studying fashion

[-1:-7.00]and interior 11 design at college.

[-1:-8.00]They have already expressed a keen 12 interest in working in design

[-1:-9.00]after their tennis careers come to an end.

[-1:10.00]The sisters'road to success has been astonishing .

[-1:11.00]The first time Venus played in a big tounament was in 1996.

[-1:12.00]Since then,she has won the Wimbledon and the US Open twice,

[-1:13.00]Serena has continued to improve and make fantastic progress.

[-1:14.00]In 1999 and 2002,she won the US Open

[-1:15.00]and in 2002 and 2003

[-1:16.00]she was the women's singles champion at Wimbledon.

[-1:17.00]Has tennis ever caused problems between the sisters?

[-1:18.00]Fortunately,no.

[-1:19.00]When they put down their rackets,

[-1:20.00]they leave their tennis rivalry 13 behind them.

[-1:21.00]'We've played each other before

[-1:22.00]and it hasn't worried us yet!says Venus .

[-1:23.00]'If she wins,'Serena jokes,'Mama says she has to do the dishes!'

[-1:24.00]lesson 8 Superhero

[-1:25.00]Not long ago.Christopher Reeve had everything.

[-1:26.00]He was a successful actor,famous for the Superman films.

[-1:27.00]But in 1996,when he appeared at Hollywood's Oscar ceremony,

[-1:28.00]he went in a wheelchair.

[-1:29.00]Disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and broke his back.

[-1:30.00]The doctors did not expect him to live.

[-1:31.00]However,sice then he has made remarkable 14 progress.

[-1:32.00]At first,he couldn't breathe without a machine,

[-1:33.00]but now he can breathe on his own.

[-1:34.00]His personal campaign to promote medical research is also impressive 15.

[-1:35.00]Christopher has made speeches all over the USA about his experiences.

[-1:36.00]This has encouraged a lot of people with all kinds of problems.

[-1:37.00]From their home,

[-1:38.00]Christopher and his wife Dana spoke about their life since the accident.

[-1:39.00]Did you suffer from depression after the accident?

[-1:40.00]'No.Four days the injury,I came to understand my situation.

[-1:41.00]Dana and I were in the hospital.

[-1:42.00]The doctor said I was not going to pull through.

[-1:43.00]Dnan said:"But you're still you,and I love you."

[-1:44.00]And that saved my life.Since that moment I have never thought of giving up.

[-1:45.00]Of course,I've had moments of feeling sorry for myself,

[-1:46.00]but I've never had any thoughts of committing suicide 16.'

[-1:47.00]Did you think that your marriage was so strong?

[-1:48.00]'Yes,because Dnan's so terrific 17.

[-1:49.00]We have always got on really well.

[-1:50.00]Our relationship has always been fantastic.'

[-1:51.00]How did your parents react to the accident?

[-1:52.00]'They divorced 18 when I was four.

[-1:53.00]They've got closer since the accident.'

[-1:54.00]How did you pull through?

[-1:55.00]I know a lot of people with disabilities need my help.

[-1:56.00]This is how I got involved with my charity work to raise monty

[-1:57.00]for improving the quality of life for all disabled people.

[-1:58.00]With the progress of new medical research

[-1:59.00]I'm confident that people like me would be able to walk again one day.

[-2:00.00]So you can see,

[-2:-1.00]I'm far too busy with living to think of giving up!