Space tourism Team members:朱冠燁 4000z058蕭騏帛 4000z065吳冠慧 4011x001葉氏美若 4011z003

New words Colonization 殖民 To sent people to live in and govern another

country.

Planet 行星 an extremely large, round mass of rock and

metal.

Main ideas of the first paragraph

One ideal of early human forays into space was potential colonization of distant planets. That goal still seems far off. But today, ordinary people with enough money can visit space.

Adventure( 冒險 ):escapade ， risky venture ，dangerous undertaking

I wish to hear the details of your adventure. 我希望聽到你這次奇遇的詳情。

Estimated( 估計 ) He estimated the speed of the winds from

the degree of damage... 他根據破壞的程度估計風速

New words

Tourist(旅行者，觀光客 ):tourer ， holidaymaker

A tourist guide will show you around. 一位導遊將陪您到處參觀。

Ａ ssisted( 輔助的 ):having help; often used as a combining form; aided

Julia was assisting him to prepare his speech.

朱利亞正在幫他準備演講稿。

Ｃ osmonaut( 俄國宇航員 ): a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; astronaut ， spaceman

“the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts”

Can I talk to you for a second, Cosmonaut? 我可不可以和你說句話，蘇聯宇航員？

Voyager( 旅行者 ): a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea) fifteenth-century voyagers to the lands now

called America and the Caribbean. 在 15 世纪到达今天被称为美洲和加勒比地区的航海家

们

Main ideas of the second paragraph

In 1998, a United States company called Space Adventures started selling space flights in the world market.

New words

• Participant (n): a person who is taking part in an activity or event.

• Orbit (v): to move in an orbit (= a curved path) around a much larger object, especially a planet, star, ect.

• Purchase (v): to buy something.

Main ideas of the third paragraph

There are three people come from different country, they traveled into space.

In April 2011, US millionaire: Dennis Tito.

In 2002, South Africa: Mark Shuttleworth.

In 2009, a Hungarian: Charles Simonyi.

New words 1. array 一系列 [S][(+of)] n. 名詞 The government is beset with a complex

array of economic problems. 政府為一系列複雜的經濟問題所困擾。

2. suborbital flight 次軌道飛行 次軌道太空飛行機是用來給人做太空旅遊用的，是穿越大

氣層到 62 英里 ( 約 100 公里 ) 高的外太空，體驗無重力的太空之旅所開發出來的。飛機會飛離大氣層，但速度不會到達可以像衛星一樣繞軌道運行

3. soar 升騰 vi. 不及物動詞 Flames were soaring into the sky. 火焰直竄天

空。

4. gaze 注視 vi. 不及物動詞 She turned to gaze admiringly at her

husband. 她轉過身來贊賞地凝視她的丈夫。

5. spaceport 太空中心 n. 名詞

6. cavort 跳躍 vi. 不及物動詞

7. tether 繫 , 栓 v. 名詞

Main ideas of the fourth paragraph

The company, Space Adventures, plans to offer a full array of space flight experience, such as soaring to the edge of space, letting passengers experience weightlessness and walking and jumping there.

New wordsEntrepreneur(企業家；主辦人；承包人 ): enterpriser An entrepreneur is a person who sets up businesses

and business deals.

The entrepreneur takes business risks in the hope of making a profit.

企業家為了追求利潤而冒險。

Aerospace( 宇宙空間 ; 宇宙航行 ):the atmosphere and outer space considered as a whole

Edward Murphy was an aerospace engineer for the US Army.

爱德华 · 墨菲是一名美军的航宇工程师。

Accommodate( 容納；使適應；向…提供住處 ): provide housing for; provide a service or favor for someone

You should soon accommodate yourself to the new circumstance.

你應盡快適應這新環境。

Main ideas of the fifth paragraph

Space Adventures isn’t the only company devising plans to launch ordinary citizens into space.

New wordsEntrepreneur 企業家 -someone who starts

their own business facility 設施 -the buildings.Atmosphere 大氣 - the mixture of gases

around the Earth .module 組件 -one of a set of separate parts.Accommodate 能容納 - to provide with a

place to live.Orbital 軌道的 - to follow a curved path

around a planet.Bargain 討價還價 -something on sale at a

lower price than its true value

Main ideas of the sixth paragraph

American entrepreneur, Robert Bigelow, meanwhile, is designing different types of space facility. His company, Bigelow Aerospace, wants to launch a series of habitable complexes in the suborbital atmosphere. His firm plans to unveil the first module, called Sun dancer.

New words Aircraft (n): any vehicle that can fly and carry

goods or passengers. Boundary (n): a real or imagined line that

marks the limits or edges of something and separates it from other things or places, a diving line.

Inaugural (adj): first, and making the beginning of something important, when a new organization is formed or when something is used for the first time.

Apiece (adv): having, costing or measuring a particular amount each.

Main ideas of the seventh of paragraph

At least, two other companies, Virgin Galactic in America and EADS Atriums in Europe, are developing “rocket planes” for commercial passenger flights.

Virgin Galactic hopes to offer civilian space flights within a few years.