《英语听力教程3》第二版_Unit10_答案

Part I Getting ready

A.

B. Keys:

1:July 20. 1969 2:U.S.3:descended4: the first person

5:step6: leap

7: two-and-a-half hour 8: flag9:a phone called10: feat

11: heavens 12.world 13: moment 14: people 15: pride

16: astronauts 17:module18.legacy

19:demonstration 20:chained21:further 22:unlimited

Part II Standing on the moon

A. Keys:

1:the fifth person 2: nine hours and twenty-three minutes

3:gather and photograph4:peacefull, insignificant

B. Keys:

1: F 2: F 3: F 4: T

Part III Grand projects of the age

A. Keys:4,2,5,3,1,6

B. Keys:

1: 1931, 102-floor high, 42 years, its limestone majesty

2: 2009, $24 billion, electrity

3: $330 billion, (still counting), 4300 miles, (still counting), automobile society, jobs, trade 4: 1994, 24 miles, England, the Continent

5: 1914, $380 million, 7800 miles

Part IV More about the topic: World Wars (I&II)

Missing…

Part V Do you know…?

Keys: 1: T 2: F 3: F 4: F 5: T 6: F

Tape script

Part I Getting ready

Thirty-five years ago, on July 20, 1969, humans first set foot on another world. U.S. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong descended from a landing craft named "Eagle" to become the first person to step on the moon, a momentous event he eloquently consecrated.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,"

During their two-and-a-half hour moonwalk, the Apollo crewmen planted the U.S. flag

in the soil and received a phone call from President Richard Nixon, who paid tribute to what he called their immense feat.

"Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one, one in their pride in what you have done,"

21.5 hours after descent, astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin fired their ascent rockets and rejoined Michael Collins aboard the orbiting "Columbia" command module for the flight home, establishing forever what Mr. Armstrong has called Apollo 11's lasting legacy.

"The important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited,"

Part II Standing on the moon

A.3.07

On February 4, 1971, Alan Shepard, commander of the Apollo 14 space mission, became the fifth person to walk on the moon. He and fellow astronaut Edgar Mitchell spent nine hours and twenty-three minutes in space suit on lunar surface. Their major job was to gather and photograph samples of the materials on the moon’s surface, including rocks and stones, to take back to geologists on earth.

When he was asked about his lunar experience, Mitchell said,” What it did for me is really force me to get a picture of the universe from a totally different perspective and the start to question our conventional ways of looking at ourselves, our place in the universe, our place in life, what it’s all about.”

A year and a half earlier, on July 20, 1969, the astronauts of Apollo 11 had made the first landing on the moon. At that time, Commander Neil Armstong was the first person to walk on the moon. As he took his first step out of the lunar module, he radioed these words to the earth:” That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.”

In a July 1994 interview 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 Earth couldn’t 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: What surprised you most about how the surface the moon looked?

A: I don’t think we had any surprises about the actual surface of the moon—about 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 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 weren’t any surprises there. the surprise I had was standing on the surface after we’d been there for a few minutes, having a chance to rest a little bit, and looking up at the earth for the first time—you have to look up because that’s 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 the brown landmasses—the brown continents—and you can see ice on the caps on the North Pole, and so on.

It’s just an absolute, incredible view, and then you say—ah—hey—um—that looks a little small to me .It looks like it—it does have limits. It’s a little fragile. You know, down here we think it’s infinite. We don’t worry about resources--.un. Up there you’re saying,” Gosh, you know, it’s a shame those folks down there can’t get along together—ah—and think about trying to conserve, to save what limited resources they have.” And it’s just very emotional. I actually shed a couple of tears looking up at the earth 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 world's tallest. A few skyscrapers have since soared higher, but none has surpassed its limestone majesty.

·Chinese people have dreamed of taming the Yangtze, China's 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 leap forward as it generates electricity for China's 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 greatest 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 linking 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 Canal 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 7 800 miles when it was completed in 1914.

Part IV More about the topic: World Wars (I&II)

Missing…

Part V Do you know…?

The photograph shows a man kissing a woman. And it's quite a kiss. He has a bent almost over backwards. The photographer was the renowned Alfred Eisenstein, who published the picture on the cover of a nation wide magazine. But since the subject was kissing, it's 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 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 saw the magazine's cover, she said she was too embarrassed to tell anyone because she didn't 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 she's received several 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 didn't have any trouble persuading Edith Sheng that he was the man in Eisenstein's photograph when he met her in July, nearly 50 years after their first encounter. Mr Muscarrela said he didn't even know the picture had been taken because he was shipped out a few days later and didn't return for 3 months. He said his mother saw the picture, however, and was shocked.

"My mother went to visit the doctor's office in Berklin. This is several weeks after the photograph was taken and she picked up a magazine in the doctor's office and she said: 'This is my boy. This is my little boy.'"

When he did learn about the picture, Carols said he didn't 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.