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33 阿波罗登月计划(三)

DATE=4-25-01
TITLE=EXPLORATIONS #1949 - PROJECT APOLLO, PART 3 TYPE=SPECIAL ENGLISH FEATURE BYLINE=MARILYN RICE CHRISTIANO

    ANNCR:
     EXPLORATIONS -- A PROGRAM IN SPECIAL ENGLISH BY THE VOICE OF AMERICA.     (THEME)
     The summer of nineteen- sixty- nine was a special time in history. That was when men from earth -- American (1) astronauts -- flew their Apollo eleven (2) spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely. The world honored the astronauts as heroes.
     Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first to land on the moon. But they were not the last. (2) NASA -- the national (3) aeronautics1 and space administration -- launched six more apollo flights.
     Today, Harry2 Monroe and kay Gallant3 tell about the flights that followed Apollo eleven to the moon.
     Voice one:
     Apollo twelve lifted off only four months after the Apollo eleven flight. Rain had fallen the night before. The clouds cleared, but more rain was expected. Space (4) officials decided4 the weather was safe enough for them to launch the spacecraft.
     Thirty-six seconds after lift-off, lightning hit the huge Saturn5 five rocket. The Apollo spacecraft lost electrical power to its control system. The astronauts worked calmly to get the power back on. Then lightning (5) struck again. And power was lost again
.     The lightning, however, did not affect the Saturn (6) rocket. The rocket continued to push the spacecraft on its path. The astronauts soon fixed6 the electrical problem. The situation returned to normal. Apollo twelve could continue its flight to the moon.
     Voice two:
     All three astronauts of apollo twelve were navy fliers. Charles Conrad was the flight commander. Richard Gordon was pilot of the command (7)module7. Alan bean was pilot of the moon Lander
.     After four days, apollo twelve was near its landing area on the moon. It would land in an area called the ocean of storms. The ocean of storms was about two- thousand kilometers west of the place where Apollo eleven had landed.
     Richard Gordon remained in the command module circling the moon. Charles Conrad and Alan bean flew the Lander craft to the surface. They came down near surveyor three, an unmanned spacecraft that had landed on the moon two years before. (8)Surveyor had sent back six- thousand pictures of the moon before it stopped working.
     Conrad stepped out of the Lander onto the moon. He described the surface as he walked away from the spacecraft. "Oh," he said, "is this soft! I don't sink in it too Far."
     Voice one:
     Alan Bean followed Charles Conrad to the surface. The two astronauts collected about thirty-five kilograms of rocks. They left five scientific instruments designed to send information back to earth. And they visited the old surveyor spacecraft.
     The two astronauts spent more than thirty-one hours on the moon. Then they returned to the orbiting command module and started back to earth. They landed in the (9)Pacific Ocean, only six kilometers from the ship that waited to rescue them.
     Voice two:
     The next flight in America’s Apollo space (10)project -- Apollo thirteen -- never landed on the moon. Three days after launch, an (11)explosion damaged the spacecraft. The astronauts lost most of their (12)oxygen. They had to cancel the moon landing and use the moon Lander as a lifeboat. Oxygen from the Lander kept them alive during the long trip back to earth.
     Apollo fourteen was launched in January, nineteen- seventy- one. It landed in the hilly Fra Mauro area of the moon.
     Fra Mauro is a huge highlands east of Apollo twelve's landing place. A large (13) meteorite8 hit the area four- thousand- million years ago. The force of the crash spread material from deep inside the moon. Scientists wanted to study this material. They believed it would give them important information about the early history of the moon.
     Voice one:
     The commander of the Apollo fourteen flight was Alan Shepard. He had been the first American in space. Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell were the other members of the crew; one piece of equipment on apollo fourteen was a light- weight vehicle with two (14)wheels. The astronauts used it to carry tools and cameras while they were on the moon. The vehicle made it possible for them to travel farther from the spacecraft to collect rocks and do experiments. They walked as far as three kilometers from the moon Lander. Even with the two-wheeled vehicle, however, Shepard and Mitchell could not reach one of their goals -- a (15)crater called cone9. They did not have enough oxygen to walk that far. They had to return to the Lander.
     Apollo twelve and Apollo fourteen produced much new scientific information. And they increased the interest of scientists in the next Apollo flights to the moon.
     Voice two:
     The last three flights would permit astronauts to stay much longer on the moon. They also would provide a vehicle with four wheels in which astronauts could ride. With such a vehicle, astronauts could explore a much larger area of the moon's surface. The vehicle was called a lunar rover.
     The lunar rover was powered by electricity. It could carry two astronauts more than thirty kilometers from the Lander. It could carry more than one- hundred- ten kilograms of equipment. The lunar (16) rover also had a television camera and an antenna10 for sending color television (17)broadcasts back to earth.
     Voice one:
     David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin were the crew for Apollo fifteen. They landed at Hadley Rille near the Apennine Mountains, (18)northwest of the place where Apollo eleven had landed.
     Scott and Irwin were the first to use the (19)lunar rover vehicle. They made several trips from the landing area to study the surface of the moon. They gathered seventy-six kilos of moon rocks. And they placed a small satellite in lunar orbit before they returned to earth.
     The Apollo fifteen astronauts returned safely. Scientists were excited about the moon rocks the astronauts brought back. They named one of them "the (20) genesis rock." it is believed to be more than four- thousand- million years old. Scientists say the rock was created very early in the life of the moon.
     Soil brought back contained bits of orange glass. Scientists said the glass came from material created as deep as three- hundred kilometers below the moon's surface.
    Astronauts john Young, Thomas Mattingly and Charles duke flew Apollo sixteen to the moon in April, nineteen- seventy- two. Young and duke landed southwest of the Apollo eleven landing place. They spent forty-five hours on the moon. They collected rocks and set up scientific (21)equipment.
     Voice two:
     Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans made the last apollo flight to the moon. That was in December, nineteen- seventy- two.     Cernan and Schmitt landed in a valley almost directly north of the Apollo eleven landing place. They spent seventy-five hours, in all, on the surface. More than twenty-two hours were spent working outside the Lander.
     The astronauts made three trips in the lunar rover to take pictures and collect rocks. The astronauts also left many scientific devices that would continue to report information about the moon.
     Cernan and Schmitt lifted off the moon on December fourteenth. Just before leaving, they placed a metal sign on the surface. The sign was to remain forever.
     It said: "here man completed his first exploration of the moon, December, nineteen-seventy-two. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all(22)mankind."
     voice one:
     Production of the Saturn five rocket and the Apollo spacecraft ended with Apollo seventeen. America's manned explorations of the moon were completed.     It was the end of a special time in human history. It had been the first time people moved beyond their small planet into the huge solar system. Now, once again, the moon was beyond human reach.
     (Theme)
     ANNCR:
     You have been listening to the story of the United States' Apollo space flight program that sent people to the moon. This program was written by Marilyn rice christiania. Your (23)narrators were Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe. Listen again next week for another explorations program on the voice of America.

注释:
(1) astronaut[5AstrEnC:t]n.太空人, 宇航员
(2) spacecraft[ 5speiskrB:ft ]n.太空船
(3) aeronautics[ 7ZErE5nC:tiks ]n.航空学, 航空术
(4) official[ E5fiFEl ]n.官员, 公务员adj.职务上的, 正式的
(5) struck[ strQk ]adj.受罢工影响的
(6) rocket[ 5rCkit ]n.火箭v.飞速上升
(7) module[ 5mCdju:l ]n.模数, 模块, 登月舱, 指令舱
(8) surveyor[ sE:5veiE ]n.测量员, 检查员
(9) pacific[ pE5sifik ]adj.和平的, 平静的n. 中太平洋
(10) project[ 5prCdVekt ]n.计划, 方案 v.设计, 计划,
(11) explosion[ iks5plEuVEn ]n.爆发,[矿]煤气爆炸
(12) oxygen[ 5CksidVEn ]n.[化]氧
(13) meteorite[ 5mi:tjErait ]n.陨星
(14) wheel[ wi:l, hw- ]n.轮, 车轮
(15) crater[ 5kreitE ]n.弹坑
(16) rover[ 5rEuvE ]n.流浪者, 漫游者
(17) broadcast[ 5brC:dkB:st ]n.广播, 播音v.播撒(种子), 广播
(18) northwest[ 5nC:W5west ]n.西北方adj.西北的
(19) lunar[ 5lju:nE ]adj.月的, 月亮的
(20) genesis[ 5dVenisis ]n.起源
(21) equipment[ i5kwipmEnt ]n.装备, 设备
(22) mankind[ mAn5kaind ]n.人类, 男性
(23) narrator[nE5reItE(r)]n。讲述者,叙述者


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1 aeronautics BKVyg     
n.航空术,航空学
参考例句:
  • National Aeronautics and Space undertakings have made great progress.国家的航空航天事业有了很大的发展。
  • He devoted every spare moment to aeronautics.他把他所有多余的时间用在航空学上。
2 harry heBxS     
vt.掠夺,蹂躏,使苦恼
参考例句:
  • Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天,人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
  • Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
3 gallant 66Myb     
adj.英勇的,豪侠的;(向女人)献殷勤的
参考例句:
  • Huang Jiguang's gallant deed is known by all men. 黄继光的英勇事迹尽人皆知。
  • These gallant soldiers will protect our country.这些勇敢的士兵会保卫我们的国家的。
4 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 Saturn tsZy1     
n.农神,土星
参考例句:
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings.天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。
  • These comparisons suggested that Saturn is made of lighter materials.这些比较告诉我们,土星由较轻的物质构成。
6 fixed JsKzzj     
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
参考例句:
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
7 module iEjxj     
n.组件,模块,模件;(航天器的)舱
参考例句:
  • The centre module displays traffic guidance information.中央模块显示交通引导信息。
  • Two large tanks in the service module held liquid oxygen.服务舱的两个大气瓶中装有液态氧。
8 meteorite 2wNy1     
n.陨石;流星
参考例句:
  • The meteorite in Jilin Exhibition Hall is believed to be the largest in the world.吉林展览馆的陨石被认为是世界上最大的。
  • The famous Murchison meteorite smashed into the Australian ground in 1969.1969年著名的默奇森陨石轰然坠落在澳大利亚。
9 cone lYJyi     
n.圆锥体,圆锥形东西,球果
参考例句:
  • Saw-dust piled up in a great cone.锯屑堆积如山。
  • The police have sectioned off part of the road with traffic cone.警察用锥形路标把部分路面分隔开来。
10 antenna QwTzN     
n.触角,触须;天线
参考例句:
  • The workman fixed the antenna to the roof of the house.工人把天线固定在房顶上。
  • In our village, there is an antenna on every roof for receiving TV signals.在我们村里,每家房顶上都有天线接收电视信号。

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