下面小編跟大家一起了解英語四級新聞聽力小技巧分享，希望對大家的學(xué)習(xí)有所幫助。
一、聽力練習(xí)
1.
A. It will be the first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon.
B. it expects to launch the spacecraft named Peregrine in the summer of 2021 from Florida's Cape Canaveral.
C. The mission will bring technology and experiments to the moon to prepare for human flights by 2024.
D. The spacecraft will use the Vulcan rocket developed by an alliance between U.S. aerospace companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
2.
A. The United States.
B. Israel.
C. China.
D. India.
The first American spacecraft expected to land on the moon in nearly 50 years will be an unmanned robotic lander. The aerospace company Astrobotic Technology told Reuters it expects to launch the spacecraft named Peregrine in the summer of 2021 from Florida's Cape Canaveral. The company said Peregrine will be the first American spacecraft to land on the moon since Apollo astronauts last touched down there in 1972. The mission will bring technology and experiments to the moon to prepare for human flights by 2024. The spacecraft will use the Vulcan rocket developed by an alliance between U.S. aerospace companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The Vulcan rocket was selected over the reusable rocket from SpaceX, a company owned by Elon Musk of carmaker Tesla. It is powered by engines from Blue Origin, a company started by Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Blue Origin also is working on a heavy-lift rocket. Astrobotic is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is one of nine companies chosen by the American space agency NASA to develop vehicles and technology to explore the lunar surface over the next ten years. As the U.S. prepares to return to the moon, other countries have launched their own missions to the moon. In January, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft successfully touched down on the far side of the moon. An Israeli robotic lander, however, crashed on its final descent in April. And India landed a Chandrayaan-2 rover in July. The vehicle is on its way to the moon's south pole, unexplored by any other nation.
Question 1: According to the news report, which of the following statements about the American space program is not correct?
Question 2: According to the news report, which of the following countries successfully touched down on the far side of the moon?
三、重點詞匯
1. unmanned: used to refer to a spacecraft, or a place where military guards work, that has no people present to operate or be in charge of it （宇宙飛船或崗哨）無人的
2. aerospace: producing or operating aircraft or spacecraft 航空航天工業(yè)的；航空航天器制造的
3. alliance: a group of countries, political parties, or people who have agreed to work together because of shared interests or aims 結(jié)盟*（或團(tuán)體），同盟*（或團(tuán)體）
4. heavy-lift: A heavy-lift launch vehicle, HLV or HLLV, is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) 重型起重機(jī)（升降機(jī)）；重（大）型空運（的）
5. descent: a movement down 下降，下落；下沉
四、背景知識
在人類登月50年后，美國航天局正緊鑼密鼓地研制新一代重型火箭和“獵戶座”飛船，計劃2024年前再次將宇航員送上月球。Astrobotic Technology公司去年11月被選中與九家公司共同競爭價值26億美元的合同，以開發(fā)小型太空飛行器和其他技術(shù)，以及未來10年內(nèi)需要執(zhí)行的20項探月任務(wù)。該公司選中了由波音和洛馬公司合資組建的Vulcan公司展開合作，Vulcan將于2021年夏天在佛羅里達(dá)州卡納維拉爾角發(fā)射其Peregrine著陸器。這將是“火神”火箭的首次發(fā)射。這枚火箭將成為美國聯(lián)合發(fā)射聯(lián)盟對抗SpaceX等公司的中堅力量。根據(jù)美國*航空航天局(NASA)表示，此次任務(wù)使把技術(shù)和實驗運送到月球，這將為2024年之前的宇航員旅行打下基礎(chǔ)。雖然SpaceX已經(jīng)用可重復(fù)使用的火箭技術(shù)削減了發(fā)射成本，但亞馬遜公司旗下的藍(lán)色起源公司(Blue Origin)也在研發(fā)一款重型助推火箭。藍(lán)色起源公司的BE-4發(fā)動機(jī)將為Vulcan提供動力。事實上，許多其他*也正在關(guān)注月球。2019年1月，的一艘太空探測器成功地降落在月球的遠(yuǎn)端；以色列的無人駕駛著陸器“貝雷舍特”(Beresheet)在今年4月的后一次降落中墜毀；今年7月，印度向月球發(fā)射的“月船2號”。
五、參考答案
Question 1: A
Question 2: C
