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Unit 4  Space Exploration

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Reading for Writing (P44 )

IS EXPLORING SPACE

A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY?

探索太空

浪费时间和金钱？

Countries around the globe are spending billions of dollars and lots of time on various space missions, whether to Mars or other planets much further away. Some people argue that we should stop wasting time and money exploring space. Instead, we should feed the world's poor and find immediate solutions to other problems, such as pollution and fatal diseases.However others feel this is a shallow view which fails to realise now exploring space helps us.

全球各国正在花费数十亿美元和大量时间执行各种太空任务，无论是前往火星还是更远的其他行星。有些人认为我们应该停止浪费时间和金钱探索太空。相反，我们应该养活世界上的穷人，并立即找到解决其他问题的办法，例如污染和致命疾病。然而，其他人认为这是一个浅薄的看法，未能意识到现在探索太空有助于我们。

Firstly,exploring space has already made a difference in the fight against world hunger. It has directly resultedin the many satellites that now orbit Earth. A number of the satellites record data on land and weather patterns. Then the data is transmitted to scientists on Earth. After careful analysis, the scientists can provide useful recommendations and advice for farmers. As a result, space-based science has helped farming in its efforts to grow enough food to feed Earth' sincreasing population.

首先，探索太空已经在战胜世界饥饿方面发挥了作用。它直接导致了现在环绕地球运行的许多卫星。一些卫星记录了陆地和天气模式的数据。然后数据被传送给地球上的科学家。经过仔细分析，科学家们可以为农民提供有用的建议和建议。因此，天基科学帮助农业努力种植足够的粮食来养活地球上不断增长的人口。

Secondly, space exploration has already promoted technological improvements that benefit us all. High-end products around the world are made toa higher standard now because of advanced technology which was first created to meet the requirements for space exploration. For example space technologies have helped the research and development of different types of new material. They have also helped companies make better heart monitors and other machines that doctors regularly use. Today, space technologies are widely used in all kinds of industries, and everyday products such as GPS,memory foam pillows, and smart phone cameras are changing our lives。

第二，空间探索已经促进了有益于我们所有人的技术改进。世界各地的高端产品由于最早是为满足太空探索的需要而创造的先进技术，现在正朝着更高的标准发展。例如，空间技术有助于研究和开发不同类型的新材料。他们还帮助公司制造更好的心脏监护仪和其他医生经常使用的机器。如今，空间技术广泛应用于各个行业，GPS、记忆泡沫枕头、智能手机摄像头等日常用品正在改变我们的生活

Finally, sending astronauts into space has helped people to think about the world's problems and even to find ways to solve them. Seeing pictures of our planet as an island in a black sea made people realise that our planets resources are limited.In order to provide for such a rapidly increasing population, scientists are trying to find other planets that could one day be our new home. The greatest attention at present is on Mars because it is closer to Earth. In the future humansmay live on both planets.

最后，将宇航员送入太空有助于人们思考世界问题，甚至找到解决问题的方法。看到我们的星球作为黑海中的一个岛屿的照片，人们意识到我们的星球资源是有限的。为了供养如此迅速增长的人口，科学家们正在努力寻找其他行星，它们有一天可能成为我们的新家园。目前最受关注的是火星，因为它离地球较近。将来人类可能生活在这两个星球上。

 In closing, exploring space provides the world with many different benefits. Therefore, it should continue so as to provide new and better solutions to people's short-term and long-term problems.

最后，探索太空给世界带来了许多不同的好处。因此，它应该继续下去，以便为人们的短期和长期问题提供新的更好的解决办法。

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