Mum: You look so happy, John! Is there anything interesting today?
John: Yes, mum. We had a special lesson at school, today.
Mum: A special lesson?
John: Uh-huh, Chinese astronauts, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu, taught us a live science lesson in the Tiangong space station, 400 kilometers above Earth.
Mum: Really?
John: They showed us how they lived and worked inside the space station.
Mum: .
John: Yes and no. They also use the microwave and fridge in the space kitchen, which can help them to heat and store food.
Mum: What about the differences?
John: . In a buoyancy experiment(浮力实验), Wang put a table tennis ball in a glass of water. Instead of floating to the surface like on Earth, the ball remained in the middle of the water. Buoyancy almost disappeared in the weightless environment.
Mum: That's amazing! What else?
John: She created a water film (水膜) using a metal ring and a bag filled with water. . The bud blossomed (开花) magically on the film.
Mum: That must be beautiful. You are so lucky. The development in communications technology of China has made it possible to transmit (传输)real-time video from space to the ground.
John: It's so amazing! .
Mum: Go ahead.
[Mum smiles and hopes this lesson can take root in his heart as a seed, and ultimately grow into towering trees.]
A. What did they do? B. How did they live there? C. They did some special experiments for us. D. Is there anything different from the way on the earth? E. I can't wait to surf the Internet and know more about the universe. F. Then she placed on the water film a flower bud that she and her daughter folded with paper before the space journey. |