[00:00.00] Unit 2 Heroes
[00:-1.00]lesson 5 Modern Heroes
[00:-2.00]Yang Liwei returns safely to earth after 21 hours in space
[00:-3.00]China's first manned spaceship lifted off at 9 a.m.on Wednesday,
[00:-4.00]Octber 15th,2003 in Jiuquan,Gansu.
[00:-5.00]The spaceship,called shenchou V,
[00:-6.00]was carrying China's first astronaut,Yang Liwei.
[00:-7.00]Yang, who was a pilot in the army,
[00:-8.00]was chosen from 1500 other army pilots
[00:-9.00]and started training fot his historic space flight in 1998.
[00:10.00]The launch went very smoothly,"When the spaceship was lifting off,
[00:11.00]I could really feel the high gravity",sai Yang Liwei.
[00:12.00]"When the spaceship separated from the rocket,
[00:13.00]I usddenly got a feeling of soaring into the sky
[00:14.00]because of the zero gravity."
[00:15.00]During the 21-hour space flight,
[00:16.00]the Shenzhou V cicled the earth 14 times,
[00:17.00]While the spaceship wsa circling the earth for sixth time,
[00:18.00]Yang Liwei spoke with ground control in Gansu Province.
[00:19.00]He wsa also able to speak with his wife and 8-year-old son.
[00:20.00]Yang Liwei had several talks to complete during the flight
[00:21.00]and only slept in the space capsule for about 3 hours.
[00:22.00]While he was sleeping,the spaceship circled the earth twice.
[00:23.00]When the spaceship was doing its seventh circle,
[00:24.00]Yang Liwei showed the flags of China and the United Nations,
[00:25.00]expressing the wishes of the Chinese people
[00:26.00]to exlpore and use space peacefully.
[00:27.00]At 6:23 a.m.on October 16th,
[00:28.00]Yang Liwei landed in Inner Mongolia safely.
[00:29.00]He told reporters later,
[00:30.00]'The surface of the spaceship was glowing red
[00:31.00]When it came back into the earth's atmosphere.
[00:32.00]When Shenzhou V released its parachute,
[00:33.00]I felt the ship was shaking .'
[00:34.00]As Yang Liwei returned into the earth's atmosphere,
[00:35.00]helicopters were already flying to the landing site,
[00:36.00]ready to collect him.
[00:37.00]Millions of people all over China were watching TV
[00:38.00]When the spaceship touched down safely.
[00:39.00]When Ynag Liwei climbed out of the spaceship,
[00:40.00]he smiled and waved to the crowds waiting for him.
[00:41.00]Yang Liwei was happy to be home
[00:42.00]but he said"I thought 21 hours was too short to stay in space.
[00:43.00]lesson 7 Sports Stars
[00:44.00]LAST WEEK,VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS
[00:45.00]played each other in the final of a tennis tournament.
[00:46.00]Venus is now eleventh in the world,
[00:47.00]and her younger sister Serena has moved up to third.
[00:48.00]The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California.
[00:49.00]It was full of drugs and violence.
[00:50.00]In a recent interview,
[00:51.00]Venus spoke about the time when she and Serena
[00:52.00]were practising on a local tennis court
[00:53.00]and they had to run and hide
[00:54.00]as bullets started flying through the air.
[00:55.00]Finally,in 1991,
[00:56.00]the sisters and their family moved to a safer arer
[00:57.00]and since then they have never looked back.
[00:58.00]The sisters'flther,Richard,
[00:59.00]started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children.
[-1:00.00]He has always been very strict with his daughters,
[-1:-1.00]training them hard to compete against each other .
[-1:-2.00]Brandi,the sister's mother ,
[-1:-3.00]home-schoolde her daughters
[-1:-4.00]so that they completed their high school
[-1:-5.00]without disrupting their tennis careers.
[-1:-6.00]Today,both sisters are studying fashion
[-1:-7.00]and interior design at college.
[-1:-8.00]They have already expressed a keen interest in working in design
[-1:-9.00]after their tennis careers come to an end.
[-1:10.00]The sisters'road to success has been astonishing .
[-1:11.00]The first time Venus played in a big tounament was in 1996.
[-1:12.00]Since then,she has won the Wimbledon and the US Open twice,
[-1:13.00]Serena has continued to improve and make fantastic progress.
[-1:14.00]In 1999 and 2002,she won the US Open,
[-1:15.00]and in 2002 and 2003
[-1:16.00]she was the women's singles champion at Wimbledon.
[-1:17.00]Has tennis ever caused problems between the sisters?
[-1:18.00]Fortunately,no.
[-1:19.00]When they put down their rackets,
[-1:20.00]they leave their tennis rivalry behind them.
[-1:21.00]'We've played each other before
[-1:22.00]and it hasn't worried us yet!says Venus .
[-1:23.00]'If she wins,'Serena jokes,'Mama says she has to do the dishes!'
[-1:24.00]lesson 8 Superhero
[-1:25.00]Not long ago.Christopher Reeve had everything.
[-1:26.00]He was a successful actor,famous for the Superman films.
[-1:27.00]But in 1996,when he appeared at Hollywood's Oscar ceremony,
[-1:28.00]he went in a wheelchair.
[-1:29.00]Disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and broke his back.
[-1:30.00]The doctors did not expect him to live.
[-1:31.00]However,sice then he has made remarkable progress.
[-1:32.00]At first,he couldn't breathe without a machine,
[-1:33.00]but now he can breathe on his own.
[-1:34.00]His personal campaign to promote medical research is also impressive.
[-1:35.00]Christopher has made speeches all over the USA about his experiences.
[-1:36.00]This has encouraged a lot of people with all kinds of problems.
[-1:37.00]From their home,
[-1:38.00]Christopher and his wife Dana spoke about their life since the accident.
[-1:39.00]Did you suffer from depression after the accident?
[-1:40.00]'No.Four days the injury,I came to understand my situation.
[-1:41.00]Dana and I were in the hospital.
[-1:42.00]The doctor said I was not going to pull through.
[-1:43.00]Dnan said:"But you're still you,and I love you."
[-1:44.00]And that saved my life.Since that moment I have never thought of giving up.
[-1:45.00]Of course,I've had moments of feeling sorry for myself,
[-1:46.00]but I've never had any thoughts of committing suicide.'
[-1:47.00]Did you think that your marriage was so strong?
[-1:48.00]'Yes,because Dnan's so terrific.
[-1:49.00]We have always got on really well.
[-1:50.00]Our relationship has always been fantastic.'
[-1:51.00]How did your parents react to the accident?
[-1:52.00]'They divorced when I was four.
[-1:53.00]They've got closer since the accident.'
[-1:54.00]How did you pull through?
[-1:55.00]I know a lot of people with disabilities need my help.
[-1:56.00]This is how I got involved with my charity work to raise monty
[-1:57.00]for improving the quality of life for all disabled people.
[-1:58.00]With the progress of new medical research
[-1:59.00]I'm confident that people like me would be able to walk again one day.
[-2:00.00]So you can see,
[-2:-1.00]I'm far too busy with living to think of giving up!
[00:-1.00]lesson 5 Modern Heroes
[00:-2.00]Yang Liwei returns safely to earth after 21 hours in space
[00:-3.00]China's first manned spaceship lifted off at 9 a.m.on Wednesday,
[00:-4.00]Octber 15th,2003 in Jiuquan,Gansu.
[00:-5.00]The spaceship,called shenchou V,
[00:-6.00]was carrying China's first astronaut,Yang Liwei.
[00:-7.00]Yang, who was a pilot in the army,
[00:-8.00]was chosen from 1500 other army pilots
[00:-9.00]and started training fot his historic space flight in 1998.
[00:10.00]The launch went very smoothly,"When the spaceship was lifting off,
[00:11.00]I could really feel the high gravity",sai Yang Liwei.
[00:12.00]"When the spaceship separated from the rocket,
[00:13.00]I usddenly got a feeling of soaring into the sky
[00:14.00]because of the zero gravity."
[00:15.00]During the 21-hour space flight,
[00:16.00]the Shenzhou V cicled the earth 14 times,
[00:17.00]While the spaceship wsa circling the earth for sixth time,
[00:18.00]Yang Liwei spoke with ground control in Gansu Province.
[00:19.00]He wsa also able to speak with his wife and 8-year-old son.
[00:20.00]Yang Liwei had several talks to complete during the flight
[00:21.00]and only slept in the space capsule for about 3 hours.
[00:22.00]While he was sleeping,the spaceship circled the earth twice.
[00:23.00]When the spaceship was doing its seventh circle,
[00:24.00]Yang Liwei showed the flags of China and the United Nations,
[00:25.00]expressing the wishes of the Chinese people
[00:26.00]to exlpore and use space peacefully.
[00:27.00]At 6:23 a.m.on October 16th,
[00:28.00]Yang Liwei landed in Inner Mongolia safely.
[00:29.00]He told reporters later,
[00:30.00]'The surface of the spaceship was glowing red
[00:31.00]When it came back into the earth's atmosphere.
[00:32.00]When Shenzhou V released its parachute,
[00:33.00]I felt the ship was shaking .'
[00:34.00]As Yang Liwei returned into the earth's atmosphere,
[00:35.00]helicopters were already flying to the landing site,
[00:36.00]ready to collect him.
[00:37.00]Millions of people all over China were watching TV
[00:38.00]When the spaceship touched down safely.
[00:39.00]When Ynag Liwei climbed out of the spaceship,
[00:40.00]he smiled and waved to the crowds waiting for him.
[00:41.00]Yang Liwei was happy to be home
[00:42.00]but he said"I thought 21 hours was too short to stay in space.
[00:43.00]lesson 7 Sports Stars
[00:44.00]LAST WEEK,VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS
[00:45.00]played each other in the final of a tennis tournament.
[00:46.00]Venus is now eleventh in the world,
[00:47.00]and her younger sister Serena has moved up to third.
[00:48.00]The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California.
[00:49.00]It was full of drugs and violence.
[00:50.00]In a recent interview,
[00:51.00]Venus spoke about the time when she and Serena
[00:52.00]were practising on a local tennis court
[00:53.00]and they had to run and hide
[00:54.00]as bullets started flying through the air.
[00:55.00]Finally,in 1991,
[00:56.00]the sisters and their family moved to a safer arer
[00:57.00]and since then they have never looked back.
[00:58.00]The sisters'flther,Richard,
[00:59.00]started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children.
[-1:00.00]He has always been very strict with his daughters,
[-1:-1.00]training them hard to compete against each other .
[-1:-2.00]Brandi,the sister's mother ,
[-1:-3.00]home-schoolde her daughters
[-1:-4.00]so that they completed their high school
[-1:-5.00]without disrupting their tennis careers.
[-1:-6.00]Today,both sisters are studying fashion
[-1:-7.00]and interior design at college.
[-1:-8.00]They have already expressed a keen interest in working in design
[-1:-9.00]after their tennis careers come to an end.
[-1:10.00]The sisters'road to success has been astonishing .
[-1:11.00]The first time Venus played in a big tounament was in 1996.
[-1:12.00]Since then,she has won the Wimbledon and the US Open twice,
[-1:13.00]Serena has continued to improve and make fantastic progress.
[-1:14.00]In 1999 and 2002,she won the US Open,
[-1:15.00]and in 2002 and 2003
[-1:16.00]she was the women's singles champion at Wimbledon.
[-1:17.00]Has tennis ever caused problems between the sisters?
[-1:18.00]Fortunately,no.
[-1:19.00]When they put down their rackets,
[-1:20.00]they leave their tennis rivalry behind them.
[-1:21.00]'We've played each other before
[-1:22.00]and it hasn't worried us yet!says Venus .
[-1:23.00]'If she wins,'Serena jokes,'Mama says she has to do the dishes!'
[-1:24.00]lesson 8 Superhero
[-1:25.00]Not long ago.Christopher Reeve had everything.
[-1:26.00]He was a successful actor,famous for the Superman films.
[-1:27.00]But in 1996,when he appeared at Hollywood's Oscar ceremony,
[-1:28.00]he went in a wheelchair.
[-1:29.00]Disaster came in 1995 when he fell from his horse and broke his back.
[-1:30.00]The doctors did not expect him to live.
[-1:31.00]However,sice then he has made remarkable progress.
[-1:32.00]At first,he couldn't breathe without a machine,
[-1:33.00]but now he can breathe on his own.
[-1:34.00]His personal campaign to promote medical research is also impressive.
[-1:35.00]Christopher has made speeches all over the USA about his experiences.
[-1:36.00]This has encouraged a lot of people with all kinds of problems.
[-1:37.00]From their home,
[-1:38.00]Christopher and his wife Dana spoke about their life since the accident.
[-1:39.00]Did you suffer from depression after the accident?
[-1:40.00]'No.Four days the injury,I came to understand my situation.
[-1:41.00]Dana and I were in the hospital.
[-1:42.00]The doctor said I was not going to pull through.
[-1:43.00]Dnan said:"But you're still you,and I love you."
[-1:44.00]And that saved my life.Since that moment I have never thought of giving up.
[-1:45.00]Of course,I've had moments of feeling sorry for myself,
[-1:46.00]but I've never had any thoughts of committing suicide.'
[-1:47.00]Did you think that your marriage was so strong?
[-1:48.00]'Yes,because Dnan's so terrific.
[-1:49.00]We have always got on really well.
[-1:50.00]Our relationship has always been fantastic.'
[-1:51.00]How did your parents react to the accident?
[-1:52.00]'They divorced when I was four.
[-1:53.00]They've got closer since the accident.'
[-1:54.00]How did you pull through?
[-1:55.00]I know a lot of people with disabilities need my help.
[-1:56.00]This is how I got involved with my charity work to raise monty
[-1:57.00]for improving the quality of life for all disabled people.
[-1:58.00]With the progress of new medical research
[-1:59.00]I'm confident that people like me would be able to walk again one day.
[-2:00.00]So you can see,
[-2:-1.00]I'm far too busy with living to think of giving up!
