【正文】 the sun is 92,956,000 miles away from the earth. Can you imagine how far away that is? The jet airliner today travels at a speed of 700 miles an hour. Imagine that you were flying to the sun this airliner. You could make no stops for rest, nor for gas or oil, because thee would be no place for you to stop. You would fly day and night at such a speed. Yet by the time you arrived, fifteen years would have passed. The electric train can travel as fast as 110 miles an hour. If a railway could be built on a sunbeam, it would take the train nearly 100 years to reach the sun. You would get very, very tried even if you lived long enough to finish the journey. The aircraft carrier is one of the fastest warships, having a speed of about forty miles per hour. If the ship could sail through space, it would take more than 200 years for her to get the sun. A little over two hundred years ago America won her independence from Britain. Suppose someone had set off to the sun in this ship when Gee Washington became President of the United States. Now after travelling all these years, he would still have a long journey before him. Suppose you lived with your parents in New York and wanted to visit your grandmother in Philadelphia. You would be on the train for nearly an hour and a half. If you took a million trip to your grandmother’s, you would have travelled as far as from the earth to the sun. What a long way it is to the sun! Have you ever thought that the sun was as far away from us as that? ? telescope 望遠鏡 astronomer 天文學家 ? jet airliner 噴氣式飛機 aircraft carrier 航空母艦 ? at a speed of 700 miles an hour ? as fast as 110 miles an hour ? having a speed of about forty miles per hour ? what a/an+ adj +countable noun! ? what + adj +uncountable noun! Reading II Why Early Bird Microwaves that transmit television signals always travel in a straight line. Because the earth is round, it’s impossible to send five televisions by direct transmission over a long distance. For example, if we tried to send television signals directly from Europe to America, the microwaves carrying the signals would shoot into space over the Atlantic and would never reach America. If we want to send television signals around the curve of the earth, we must send them from point to point by a relay system. On land we can set up relay stations for this purpose, and we can pass signals from station to station in a series of straight lines. However, we cannot do this so easily over water. In order to send pictures directly across the Atlantic, for, example, we would need to erect a chain of relay station across the ocean, which is approximately 3,000 miles wide. One alternative would be to erect one enormous tower in the middle of the ocean. But the tower would have to be 500 miles high! Both of these ideas are impossible. So we use a munications satellite thousands of miles away in outer space to relay the television signals across the Atlantic. The satellite receives the picture signals in a straight line from a ground station on one side of the Atlantic。 and if I were lucky enough, I might meet a couple of Martians. ? B: The Martians? I wonder if I there are living creatures there. Where else in space could we go? ? A: Mercury. Don’t fet Mercury. I would be able to break the world’s records in the high jump on Mercury and make a name in history. You know, the gravity there is only about a third as strong as it is on the earth. ? B: Really. It’s very ambitious of us to e up with the idea of touring around the solar system. I wonder if it will happen in three hundred years. ? cherish 珍愛， 喜愛 ? harmony with 與 … 協(xié)調(diào) ? itinerary 旅行計劃 ? schedule 計劃 ? plas, satellites, ets, heavenly bodies 行星，衛(wèi)星，彗星，天體 ? Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Mars, Mercury 金星，木星，土星， 天王星，海王星，冥王星，火星，水星。 but John’s shirt is not cotton, it is nylon. (what) Example: A: Are you a teacher? B: No, I’m a doctor. A: What would you teach if you were a teacher? B: I would teach maths. ―What would you teach if you were a teacher?‖ is a sentence of unreal condition, that is, the action stated in the ifclause or the conditional clause is contrary to the fact. A sentence of unreal condition of this type is usually called a Type II conditional sentence. Type II conditional sentence usually refer to either the present or the future. The verb be in the ifclause is generally in the form of were, regardless of the person or number of the subject。 but this pictorial is not a bimonthly, it is a monthly. (how often) 4. Real flowers will wither in a few days。 but I’m not a teacher, I’m a doctor. (what) 2. Genuine leather shoes cost at least $ a pair。 ? 書面表達能力：能書寫日常應用文，能寫自己專業(yè)論文的英語摘要，能借助參考資料寫出與專業(yè)相關、結構基本清晰、內(nèi)容較為豐富的報告和論文，能描寫各種圖表，能就一定的話題在半小時內(nèi)寫出 160詞的短文，內(nèi)容完整，條理清楚，文理通順。 ? 閱讀理解能力：能基本閱讀英語國家報刊雜志的一般性題材的文章，閱讀速度為每分鐘 80詞，在快速閱讀篇幅較長的材料時，閱讀速度達到每分鐘 120詞，能就閱讀材料進行略讀或?qū)ぷx。能掌握其中心大意，抓住要點。 ? 較高要求的英語能力要求如下： ? 聽力理解能力：能夠基本聽懂來自英語國家人士的談話和講座，能聽懂題材熟悉、篇幅較長的國內(nèi)英語廣播或電視節(jié)目，語速為每分鐘 150詞左右。譯文基本流暢，能在翻譯時使用適當?shù)姆g技巧。能在一般或應用寫作中使用恰當?shù)膶懽骷寄?。能在閱讀中使用有效的閱讀方法。 ? 閱讀理解能力：能夠基本讀懂一般性題材的英文文章，閱讀速度達到每分鐘 70詞，在快速閱讀篇幅較長、難度略低的材料時，閱讀速度達到每分鐘 100詞，能基本讀懂國內(nèi)英文報刊，掌握中心意思，理解主要事實和相關細節(jié)。能就所熟悉的話題經(jīng)準備后作簡短發(fā)言，表達比較清楚，語音、語調(diào)基本正確。 ? 口語表達能力：能在學習過程中用英語交流，并能就某一主題進行討論。 ? 一般要求的英語能力要求如下： ? 聽力理解能力：能聽懂英語授課，能聽懂日常英語談話和一般性題材講座，能基本聽懂英語國家慢速英語節(jié)目，語速為每分鐘 130詞左右，能掌握其中心大意，抓住要點。 ? 一般要求是所有學生應達到的基本要求。閱讀為學生提供語言素材，是語言學習的源泉?？陬^討論要有閱讀的基礎，但又能加深閱讀理解，提高寫作水平。聽說讀寫能力不能再割裂開來作為單項技能訓練，而應該作為一個統(tǒng)一體進行訓練。 ? 本課程著重于加強和提高學