Sally Ride
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Introduction Half a million people cheered when Sally Ride took off at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角起飞时,50万人欢呼.
The space shuttle Challenger shot into space on June 18,1983.
挑战者号航天飞机于1983年6月18日被射入太空.
Sally was the first American woman in space.
莎莉是第一个在太空的美国女人.
And she was the youngest American astronaut,male or female,at age 32 Sally and four other astronauts were strapped inside the space shuttle.
她是美国最年轻的宇航员, 男性或女性, 在32岁萨利和其他4名宇航员被绑在航天飞机内。
The shuttle was attached to a huge fuel.
航天飞机被接入了巨大的燃料中.
tank.
油罐车
Two smaller rocket boosters.
两个更小的火箭助推器.
were mounted onto the fuel tank.
被安装在燃料箱上
They helped power the shuttle into space.
他们把太空梭送入太空
The tank and boosters dropped into.
坦克和助推器掉入了其中.
the ocean after they used up their fuel.
在他们耗尽了燃料之后的海洋里
In 44 minutes and 27 seconds,the Challenger was circling the Earth Sally was the flight engineer on board.
在44分27秒内,挑战者号正在环绕地球,萨利是机上飞行工程师.
During the time in space she and John Fabian,another scientist,worked on forty experiments.
在太空期间,她和另一位科学家约翰·法比安(John Fabian)共同研究了四十个实验.
They also tested a.
他们还测试了a.
15-meter (50-ft) robot arm.
15米(50-ft)机器人臂.
It was used to pick up broken satellites in space.
它被用来在太空取出被破坏的卫星.
The whole crew returned to Earth in.
全体队员返回地球
six days.
6天时间
They had traveled 4 million kilometers (2 5 million mi)!
他们已经走了400万公里(2500万米)!
Growing Up Sally was born on May 26,1951.
成长后萨利生于1951年5月26日.
Two years later,her parents,Dale and Joyce Ride,had another daughter,Karen.
两年后,她的父母,Dale和Joyce Ride,又有一个女儿Karen.
The family lived in Encino,California.
全家住加州恩西诺.
The planets,stars,and galaxies always fascinated Sally.
行星,星等星系 总是迷上莎莉
Yet she never thought about becoming an astronaut.
但她从未想过要成为宇航员
When Sally was nine,the whole family spent.
莎莉9岁时,全家花光了.
a year traveling in Europe.
一年在欧洲旅行。
She started to get an idea of how big the world was In high school,she was very interested in science.
她开始了解到 高中的世界有多大 她对科学很感兴趣
Sally loved sports.
莎莉喜欢体育
She worked hard at tennis,often winning big matches.
她在网球方面很努力,常常赢得大赛.
She went on to college.
她上大学了
and earned degrees in physics and literature.
并获得物理学和文学学位。
She even earned a Ph D, making her Dr.
她甚至还获得了博士学位 让她成为博士
Sally Ride.
莎莉·莱德
Her field was astrophysics—the study of stars and other bodies in space Early Astronaut Training One day Sally saw an ad recruiting NASA astronauts.
她的球场是天体物理学——在太空早期宇航员训练中研究恒星和其他天体 有一天,莎莉看到一个招聘NASA宇航员的广告.
NASA is short.
NASA是短。
for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
代表美国国家航空航天局。
NASA was looking.
NASA在寻找。
for the very best people to learn about space travel.
让最好的人了解太空旅行
Sally was chosen for the 1978 NASA astronaut class.
萨利被选入1978年美国国家航空航天局宇航员班.
She was very proud.
她非常骄傲。
Two women from the Soviet Union had already been in space.
苏联的两名妇女已经进入太空。
She wanted to be the first American woman in space Learning to become an astronaut was hard work.
她想成为第一位在太空学习中成为宇航员的美国女性是艰苦的.
Sally had to learn to pilot.
莎莉必须学会驾驶。
a plane.
飞机
She had to learn how to control the launch and reentry of the shuttle.
她必须学会如何控制航天飞机的发射和再入.
She needed to know how to operate.
她需要知道如何操作。
the computer systems and switches on the shuttle.
电脑系统和交换机在航天飞机上。
As flight engineer,she had to learn to use the shuttle’s robot arm.
作为飞行工程师,她必须学会使用航天飞机的机器人臂.
to pick up satellites from space Sally in Space On Sally’s first ride in space,she sped along at 28,164 kilometers per hour (17,500 mph).
她以每小时28,164公里(17,500 mph)的速度走动。
The space shuttle circled the Earth in ninety minutes.
航天飞机于90分钟后环绕地球.
It circled the Earth rather than flying off into space because of the Earth’s gravity.
它环绕地球,而不是因为地心引力而飞入空间。
The shuttle’s speed was just fast enough to keep it from falling back to Earth.
太空梭的速度足够快,
It circled about 322 kilometers (200 mi) above the Earth Sally wrote a book about her space travels.
它在地球上空盘旋了大约322公里(200米),莎莉写了一本关于她太空旅行的书.
She wrote that the best part of being in space was being weightless.
她写道,在太空中最好的部分是没有重量.
She told how the crew moved around.
她告诉了船员们怎么移动的
by grabbing onto something on the wall to keep from floating away.
抓住墙上的东西 以免漂走
When they were working on a machine,they were always strapped in.
当他们在机器上工作时, 他们总是被绑在里面。
Most of the time they ate with spoons.
大多数时候他们用勺子吃.
They ate sticky food so that it wouldn’t float away.
他们吃黏糊糊的食物,
They used straws to drink.
他们用稻草来喝.
They stored all their trash and brought it back to Earth The astronauts took exciting pictures.
他们把垃圾都储存起来 带回了地球 宇航员拍摄了令人兴奋的照片.
as they circled the Earth.
他们环绕着地球
These pictures help all of us see the wonders that the hguorhT“,etorw yllaS.
这些照片有助于我们所有人都看到这些奇迹, 师曰.
was stuanortsa the small windows of the space shuttle, I looked down on Earth and saw the oceans and land that make up our planet.
我俯瞰了地球,看到了构成我们星球的海洋和陆地。
The view was spectacular ” With these space photos,scientists learn more about the Earth.
“有了这些空间相片, 科学家们更多地了解地球。
They use them.
他们使用它们。
to study how humans and other living things are changing the planet.
研究人类和其他生物如何改变地球
The pictures are also used to learn about.
图片也用来学习.
the layers of air surrounding the Earth Sally returned to space aboard the Challenger on October 5,1984.
围绕地球的空气层 莎莉在1984年10月5日回到了挑战者号上
This time,there was another woman astronaut aboard—Kathryn Sullivan.
这一次,还有另一个女宇航员在船上... 凯瑟琳·沙利文
On that trip,Kathryn was the first American woman to walk in space.
在那次出行中,凯斯林是第一位在太空行走的美国女性.
Sally launched a weather satellite.
莎莉发射了一颗气象卫星.
The satellite would be used to find.
卫星将被用来寻找。
out if the air surrounding the Earth.
如果地球周围的空气。
was getting warmer NASA Space Travels Many space shuttles were launched.
太空之旅越来越暖和了 许多航天飞机被发射.
in 1983 and 1984.
1983年和1984年。
Judith Resnick,a classmate of Sally’s,had been in space in August,1983.
Judith Resnick是莎莉的同学,曾于1983年8月登上太空。
Many new experiments were completed.
许多新的实验已经完成。
Some of the crew walked in space with small jet packs.
一些机组人员用小型喷气式包走入太空.
on their backs.
在他们的背上。
They repaired a satellite in space for the first time.
他们首次修复了太空中的一颗卫星.
Space travel seemed safe and exciting After so many successes,NASA decided that ordinary people could join the astronauts aboard a spaceship.
太空旅行似乎安全而令人兴奋 经过这么多的成功之后,美国航天局决定普通人可以和宇航员一起搭乘太空船.
The.
那个
first one chosen was Christa McAuliffe.
第一个选的是克丽丝塔·麦考利夫
She was an elementary-school teacher.
她是小学老师
She planned to give lessons about space as she circled the Earth The Challenger was ready to launch on January 28,1986.
在她环绕地球飞行时 她计划提供太空课程 挑战者号准备在1986年1月28日发射
Its crew of seven included Judith Resnick and Christa McAuliffe.
其7名船员包括朱迪思·雷斯尼克和克莉斯塔·麦考利夫.
With the world watching on TV,the Challenger launched into space.
随着世界在电视上观看,挑战者号向太空发射.
But just over a minute after launch, there was trouble.
但发射刚刚过一分钟 就有麻烦了
The Challenger exploded.
挑战者号爆炸了
The sky filled with fire and.
天上充满了火和.
a huge cloud of smoke.
巨大的烟雾。
The shuttle and its crew were lost.
太空梭和它的船员失踪了
The accident caused NASA to stop its space program for.
事故导致NASA停止了其太空计划.
a while.
一会儿
They needed to make space travel safer Sally as Educator After this terrible accident,Sally Ride decided not to go on another shuttle trip.
他们需要让太空旅行更加安全 萨利作为教育家 在这次可怕的事故后,萨利·里德决定不进行另一次穿梭旅行。
She kept working at NASA.
她一直在太空总署工作
Then she went to work teaching college science.
后来她去工作,教授大学科学.
Before her death in 2012,she also worked to teach young children about the wonders of space travel.
在她于2012年去世前,她还致力于向幼儿传授太空旅行的奇迹.
She wrote books and taught classes to interest children in space.
她写了书,并教给对空间感兴趣的儿童上课.
She continues to be a role model for girls who want to work in science Sally Ride was the first American woman to go into space.
她仍然是想在科学领域工作的女孩们的榜样,是第一位进入太空的美国女性.
She helped teach us the wonders of space.
她教我们太空的奇观
She showed us that dreams can come true with courage and hard work
她告诉我们,梦想可以凭勇气和辛勤工作实现