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Unit 1 China’s development in aerospace

Intensive reading

Exercise I

1. featured; 2. combustion; 3. test out; 4. kicked off; 5. autonomous;

6. regenerative; 7. rendezvous; 8. propulsion; 9. positioned; 10. fixture

Exercise Ⅱ

Part A

中国载人航天实现了这一系列里程碑后，还专注于研制新的、更大的长征重型运载火

箭，以使空间站建造成为可能。长征五号B运载火箭就是为将庞大的空间站舱段送入近地

轨道而专门设计的。2014年，中国在文昌建成了新的沿海航天港，专门用于发射这些直径

更大的、需要通过海运运输的火箭。

Part B

In September 2021, three Chinese astronauts successfully completed a

three-month stay on board, during which they worked on the station’s Tianhe

core module and conducted two spacewalks to install equipment. In the following

month, October 16, China launched the Shenzhou-13 crewed spaceship, to the

Tianhe core module of China’s Tiangong space station in low Earth orbit.

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Exercise Ⅲ

Tiangong space station caught the eyes of the world again as the three

astronauts of the Shenzhou-13 mission entered its core module on October 16,

2021. As China’s low-Earth-orbit space station, though Tiangong is smaller and

lighter than the International Space Station, its core, the Tianhe module, can

receive spacecraft, modules, and serve as the main habitat for astronauts. If

completed successfully, Tiangong will share its orbit with a space telescope to

survey the sky. China has striven for a long and arduous time to make a space

station possible. In the future, experiments in more areas will be carried out, and

thus Tiangong is expected to be a fixture in the sky for at least 10 years.

Exercise IV

1. launched; 2. module; 3. blasted off; 4. crewed; 5. approximately;

6. carry out; 7. assemble; 8. conduct; 9. psychologically; 10. deploy

Further reading

Exercise I

1. C (Para. 1)

2. C (Para. 4)

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