外研版必修2Module5學案

   in 1690, beijamin harris printed the first american newspaper in boston. but not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. in 1704, john campbell started the boston newspaper ,the first newspaper published daily the american colonies（1）. by 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. there are now about 1800 daily papers in the united states.
   today, as a group, english language newspapers have the largest circulation（2）in the world. but the largest circulation for a newspaper is that of the japanese newspaper asahi shimbun. it sells more than eleven million copies every year.
注解：（1）colonies: 殖民地     （2）circulation： 發行量
introduction:write about your favorite newspaper or magazine and talk with your classmates on it.
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2.read the passage to deal with the exercises on p42
reading comprehension:
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a few days ago, he was just colonel yang, few people knew his name or recognized his face. but when he came back to the earth after a 21-hour trip to space. yang liwei’s smile was seen across the world above the magic words:“china’s first spaceman.”
  the 38-years-old astronaut was sent into space by china’s shenzhou v spacecraft, which orbited the third earth 14 times. he landed safely the next day, making china the third country to successfully send a person into space, after the former soviet union and the us.
yang was satisfied with his job. “i have seen many landing scenes before on video, and i think ours was one of the most successful,” he said on a special plane to beijing after landing.
  born in an ordinary family in liaoning province, he became a pilot in the chinese air force in 1987, spending 1350 hours in the air. he joined the china’s national flag and the united nations’ flag to the people watching on tv at home.
  the whole project went according to plan, but space exploration is not as easy as it seems.
anyone who saw the destruction of the us space shuttle columbia in february this year will know that yang took a great risk.
  he experienced extremely high temperature while the gravitational forces on taking off and landing were strong enough to force tears from his eyes.