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It’s not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of “Shenzhou V”,or “Divine ship/vessel V”.There are also lexicographers,or dictionary compilers.The flight of the Spacecraft last week might help put some new words into orbit.?
One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts.It s a combination of the Chinese pinyin “taikong”,meaning space,and the English “astronaut”,from classical Greek:“star sailor/navigator”,for people who was going into space as a career.
In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15,“taikonaut” was used as a proper noun.For example:The long March 2F rocket carrying “taikonaut” Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over the Gobi desert at 9 am and entered its orbit 10 minutes later.?
A Long March 2F rocket called the Shenzhou V—“divine ship” in Chinese—carried a single “taikonaut” named Yang Liwei,38,following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961.?
The word “taikonaut” is not a newly coined term.It first emerged in November,1999,when China launched its first unmanned “Shenzhou Ⅰ” spacecraft.?
At that lime,some English news media predicted that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word “taikonaut” for the Chinese astronauts.It was then borrowed by the Germans media.?
But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries,such as the Merriam—Webster Dictionary and Cambridge Advanced English ?
Learner’s Dictionary.?
However,the launch of the “Shenzhou V” will most likely help boost its status since there is already a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry.?
An astronaut of Russian (or the former Soviet Union)is called a “cosmonaut”,from the Russian “kosmonaut”.The word was derived from classical Greek:“kosmonaut” (universal)and “nautes”.One might argue that “cosmonaut” is a Russian variation on the earlier word “astronaut”.
On March 14,1995,US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space on-board a Russian launch vehicle,arguably making him the first American cosmonaut.?
And if this trend of coinage continues,more English variations for astronaut will appear as more countries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space,what would Western journalists call an astronaut from India or Africa we’ll have to wait to see.?
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解析:主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了因为中国载人航天事业的发展而派生的一个新英语词汇“taikonaut”的由来。?
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第二节:读写任务(共1小题,满分20分)
阅读下面的短文,然后根据要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman,“How have you done so much in your lifetime?” He replied, “I have dreams. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamed about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning , I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that. It’s impossible.’ I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US, said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So please, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are impossible.
“Sing your song, dream your dreams, hope your hope and pray your prayer.”
【写作内容】
1)以约30词概括短文的主旨大意;
2)然后以约120个词就“梦想”这一主题发表看法,包括如下要点:
a) 请谈谈你是如何理解梦想在人生当中所起的作用的。
b) 列举一个正面或负面的实例支持你的观点,可以是你自己的亲身经历也可以是他人的例子。
【写作要求】
概括要点和使用阅读材料中的实例时,不得直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适,篇章连贯。
第二节:读写任务(共1小题,满分20分)
阅读下面的短文,然后根据要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman,“How have you done so much in your lifetime?” He replied, “I have dreams. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamed about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning , I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that. It’s impossible.’ I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US, said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So please, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are impossible.
“Sing your song, dream your dreams, hope your hope and pray your prayer.”
【写作内容】
1)以约30词概括短文的主旨大意;
2)然后以约120个词就“梦想”这一主题发表看法,包括如下要点:
a) 请谈谈你是如何理解梦想在人生当中所起的作用的。
b) 列举一个正面或负面的实例支持你的观点,可以是你自己的亲身经历也可以是他人的例子。
【写作要求】
概括要点和使用阅读材料中的实例时,不得直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适,篇章连贯。
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第二节:读写任务(共1小题,满分20分)
阅读下面的短文,然后根据要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman,“How have you done so much in your lifetime?” He replied, “I have dreams. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamed about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning , I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that. It’s impossible.’ I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US, said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So please, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are impossible.
“Sing your song, dream your dreams, hope your hope and pray your prayer.”
【写作内容】
1)以约30词概括短文的主旨大意;
2)然后以约120个词就“梦想”这一主题发表看法,包括如下要点:
a) 请谈谈你是如何理解梦想在人生当中所起的作用的。
b) 列举一个正面或负面的实例支持你的观点,可以是你自己的亲身经历也可以是他人的例子。
【写作要求】
概括要点和使用阅读材料中的实例时,不得直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适,篇章连贯。
查看习题详情和答案>>第二节:读写任务(共1小题,满分20分)
阅读下面的短文,然后根据要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman,“How have you done so much in your lifetime?” He replied, “I have dreams. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamed about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning , I saw the way to make my dreams real. While other people were saying, ‘You can’t do that. It’s impossible.’ I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted.” As Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the US, said, “We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nourish them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
So please, don’t let anyone steal your dreams, or try to tell you they are impossible.
“Sing your song, dream your dreams, hope your hope and pray your prayer.”
【写作内容】
1)以约30词概括短文的主旨大意;
2)然后以约120个词就“梦想”这一主题发表看法,包括如下要点:
a) 请谈谈你是如何理解梦想在人生当中所起的作用的。
b) 列举一个正面或负面的实例支持你的观点,可以是你自己的亲身经历也可以是他人的例子。
【写作要求】
概括要点和使用阅读材料中的实例时,不得直接引用原文中的句子。
【评分标准】
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适,篇章连贯。
查看习题详情和答案>>