Page 4 - Book III Unit 4

3 Use your own words to summarise the main idea for each paragraph.

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4 What does the title “Space: The Final Frontier” mean to you? Share your ideas
with the whole class.

5 Complete the passage with words from the text.

M is exploring space in the hope of finding out more about the u . However,
exploring space is both dangerous and challenging. One of the most dangerous parts
of space exploration is helping people to escape Earth’s g . If there is a mistake
during the l , it can lead to an accident that kills everyone on b . Getting out
of o and back to Earth’s surface is also very dangerous. Despite the huge risks
though, people will always continue to explore this final f so as to learn its secrets.

Challenger, and Columbia spacecrafts died during their missions.
Challenger after
However, while such disasters brought much sadness and
the accident
disappointment, the desire to explore the universe did not die. This
is because people believe in the importance of carrying on space
exploration despite the huge risks.

China’s space programme started later than those of Russia and the
US, but it has made great progress in a short time. China became the
third country in the world to independently send humans into space
in 2003, when Yang Liwei successfully orbited Earth in the Shenzhou
5 spacecraft. Then Shenzhou 6 and 7 completed a second manned
orbit and the first Chinese spacewalk, followed by the vehicle Jade
Rabbit being sent to the moon to study its surface. On 23 July 2020,
China sent Tianwen 1 to explore the surface of Mars. It arrived in
February 2021 and then sent back lots of valuable information. And
from 2021 to 2022, China completed a number of rocket missions to
establish its own space station. In 2022, the launch of the Mengtian
module signaled the basic completion of the Tiangong Space
Station. This modern space station will allow astronauts to conduct
many important experiments, greatly furthering our understanding of the universe.

Many countries have plans to further
study planets like Mars and Jupiter. Despite the difficulties, scientists hope to make more
valuable discoveries that will enable the human race to survive well into the future.

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