北师大版高中英语必修第二册unit6 the admirable 导读话题妙切入学案

UNIT 6 The admirable

There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths where highways never ran.

在那没有大道可通的地方，先驱者开辟了他们的道路。

—Sam Foss

We always like those who admire us；we do not always like those whom we admire.

我们总是喜欢崇敬我们的人，但并不永远喜欢我们所崇敬的人。

—duc de La Rochefoucauld

Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

很多人的失败，是因为他们不知道他们放弃时，距离成功是多么地近。

—Thomas Edison

We do not admire the man of timid(胆怯的) peace.We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts，the man who never wrongs his neighbor，who is prompt to help a friend，but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.It is hard to fail，but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.In this life we get nothing save by effort.Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.A man can be free from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose.

Qian Xuesen was a rocket scientist.He was famous all over the world as the father of China's space technology.He was born in 1911.On October 31，2009，he passed away peacefully.

Qian Xuesen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1934.In 1935，he went to the United States for further study.In 1950，he heard that the new China had been founded，he began to try his best to go back to his motherland.Since 1958，Dr.Qian had devoted all his  life to China's aerospace science and technology and made great achievements.He set up China's first missile­and­rocket­research institute (导弹、火箭研究机构)，which later helped start China's space program.He retired in 1991，the year before China's manned space program (载人航天计划) was started.His research formed the basis (基础) of the Long March CZ­2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.

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1．Find out how old when Qian Xuesen passed away?

98.

2．Find out when China started manned space program.

In 1992.