2021-2022学年度第35-36期总第866期 (6版)
Anybody out there? (P6)

I. Answer the following questions.
1. When will the mission be carried out?
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2. Why do they carry out the mission?
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3. Have we made similar efforts to contact space before?
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4. What will we say and how will we send our messages?
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II. Guess the Chinese meaning of following expressions in the text.
1. follow                                 _____________
2. make contact                             _____________
3. be in touch                             _____________
4. regardless                                 _____________
5. be around                                 _____________

III. Sentence structure.
1. It was an image, in binary code, of a cartoon person and some chemistry diagrams.
2. Three years later, the two capsules on Voyager spacecraft, launched by NASA, carry golden phonograph records full of images and sounds of Earth.
两句的划线部分，前后都有逗号，为句中的_______，提供细节信息，将句子分割开来。理解句子时可先忽略，抓句子_______。

参考答案：
I. 1. According to Scientific American, the technology needed to send the message is not
yet ready. So, the schedule hasn’t been set.
2. “We want … to say, ‘Hey, we are here,’ even if we are not here some years later,” Jiang, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, told Live Science.
3. Humans have long sought ways to contact other worlds. In the early 19th century, Austrian astronomer Joseph Johann von Littrow said we should communicate with space by making giant geometric patterns in the sands of the Sahara Desert, filling them with kerosene and lighting them on fire.
4. •Nearly all the messages humans have sent so far start with some basic science and math information – two topics that aliens with a radio telescope would understand.
•As early as 1974, a team sent a radio message which was an image, in binary code, of a cartoon person and some chemistry diagrams.
•Three years later, the two capsules carry golden phonograph records full of images and sounds of Earth.
•With improvements in digital technology, they can do much better.  

II. 1. 讲述的是；2. 联系；3. 保持联系；4. 不管，不顾，不过；5. 存在
III. 插入部分/插入语；主干