第八課 Space Tourism

1. 王前恩、黃立翰、莊雅涵、蘇大森、陳靜宜 第八課Space Tourism

2. Main idea 1 • Human’s foray into space is difficult in early days, but now people with enough money can visit space easily.

3. Vocabulary • Foray: to make a raid • Potential: possible • Colonization: to settle in a colony. • Distant: far off or apart in space (dis:=un=de =negative ) • Ordinary: normal

4. Main idea 2 • At first, the space travelers were called space tourists, but later they were called “spaceflight participants”.

5. Vocabulary • Adventure: a bold, usually risky undertaking • Estimate: an approximate judgment • Object: to refuse  (Ob: toward) • Term: a word or group of words designating something • Perform: execute • Research: to make researches (re: again / search: to explore in order to discover) • Assist: aid to • Refer: to assign to a class (re: again) • Voyager: a journey, travel, or passage, especially one to a distant land or by sea or air

6. Main idea 3 • This paragraph points out Dennis Tito is the first person to purchase a ride on a space ship and Charles Simonyi is the first person to make a repeat space journey.

7. Main idea 4 • This paragraph points out that one company plans to sell space walks, in which spaceflight participants can cavort in space while tethered to the ship by a special line in the future.

8. Vocabulary • Vocabulary • Participant (n) 參與者 • someone who takes part in an activity • Orbit (v) 環繞 • the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another • Edge (n) 邊緣 • a strip near the boundary of an object • Engine (n) 發動機 • motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work • Weightlessness (n) 無重狀態 • Gaze (v) 凝視 • a long fixed look

9. Main idea 5 • Space Adventures isn’t the only company devising plans to launch ordinary citizens into space.

10. Vocabulary • 後綴詞：adventure accommodate名詞：space company guest形容詞：ordinary former pop shaped動詞：devising launch estimate

11. Main idea 6 • The main idea of the paragraph is to say that Bigelow Aerospace wants to wants to launch a series of habitable complexes in the suborbital atmosphere. His firm plans to unveil the first module, called Sun dancer.

12. Vocabulary • Entrepreneur 企業家; 事業創辦者 • Facility 能力; 技能(+in/with) • Launch 使(船)下水 • Habitable 可居住的; 適於居住的 • Complex 複雜的, 錯綜複雜的; 難懂的 • Suborbital (人造衛星因高度不夠)未進入地球軌道的 • Firm 穩固的; 牢固的; 結實的 • Unveil 除去...的面紗(或覆蓋物); 揭開...... • Module 模數(建築部件等的度量單位); (航天器的)艙 • Accommodate 能容納; 能提供...膳宿 • Craft 工藝, 手藝 • Orbital 軌道的 • Ordinary 通常的, 平常的 • Unique 唯一的, 獨一無二的; 獨特的 • Relative 相對的, 比較的 • Bargain 協議特價商品, 便宜貨 • Project 計劃; 企劃

13. Main Idea7 • Virgin Galactic hopes to offer civilian space flights within a few years.

14. Vocabulary • Boundary 邊界 • the closure minus the interior of a subset of a topological space. • bound限於(場所等)的 • -ary與...有關的 • Civilian平民 • A civilian under international humanitarian law (also known as the laws of war) is a person who is not a member of his or her country's armed forces or other militia. • civil市民的 • ian人 • Inaugural開始的 • An inauguration is a formal ceremony to mark the beginning of a major political leader's term of office.