lesson 47
Part I Warming-up Exercises
spot dictation: successful predictions
in 1865 the famous French author Jules Verne wrote two books.
One was________"From the Earth to the Moon"_______the other "Around
the Moon."In ________ books he described man landing on ______ moon.
In 1969 man actually did ______ on the moon. Many of the _____ of
the real moon landing had ______described with amazing accuracy in Jules______ books.
Here are three of the ______.First,Jules Verne's spaceship carried
three ______.Apollo II caried three men. Second. ______ spaceship had a begining speed of ______ feet per second. Apollo's beginning speed ____
35,533 feet per second. And last,______ spaceship took 97 hours,13 minutes_____ 20 seconds to reach the moon.______ took 103 hours and 30 minutes.
_______ door of Apollo II opended at _____ p.m. on July 20,1969 and ____ man stepped out onto the surface _____ the moon. Jules Verne had predicted ______ with great accuracy over 104 years _____.

Score:________
Part II
News
News Item 1
American Space Agency officials say the new space shuttle Challenger will be ready for its next flight in only sixty days.
The Challenger landed Saturday in California after a successful
five-day flight. Space officials said preparations for the next
flight must be done quickly because of the two-month delay before the shuttle's first flight. Engine problems caused the delay of the space flight. But officials say challenger worked very well during last week's flight.
News Item 2
space news
American Space Agency officials are continuing preparations for Saturday's launch of the space shuttle Challenger. If all goes as planned, the spacecraft will be launched from Cape canaveral, Florida,
about eleven hours thirty Greenwich mean time. This is Challenger's
second flight in space. It will carry five astronauts, including America's first woman astronaut Sally Ride. The flight is expected
to last six days.The Voice of America will broadcast the space shuttle's launch beginning at eleven hours G.M.T. Saturday
Part III
An Outstanding Character----Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother and father were of Puritan religion. They left England and moved to the English colony of Massachusetts in order to escape persecution for their religion. In Boston, Franklin left school when he was ten years old and worked for his father for two years. Then he went to work on his brother's newspaper. He became the editor of this paper when he
was sixteen. Because he wanted to be independent, he went to Philadelphia. There he bought his own newspaper. He worked hard and saved his money. And by the age of 24 he was one of the most successful
men in Philadelphia.
In 1732 Franklin published a book POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC.Most almanacs contained information for farmers,such as information about the days and weeks of the year and about the weather. To his almanac, Franklin added wise sayings, his observations about life. Some of these sayings are still famous today. For example,"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,"and "Waste not,want not,"
and "A penny saved is a penny earned,"