高二年级英语阅读文章材料

　　从高一到高二，我们的英语单词储备量也渐渐增多了，除了课本上的英语单词，我们也可以记忆平时看的英语阅读文章里面的生单词。这里与大家分享高二年级英语阅读文，有时间我们不妨学习一下，看看自己能够做到何种程度。

　　高二年级英语阅读文章(一)

　　Historical space visit

　　CHINA''S third manned spacecraft lifted off at 9:10 pm last Thursday to fulfill (完成) its most ambitious and risky mission (任务): spacewalk.

　　Shenzhou VII, carrying three 42-year-old astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng, blasted off (发射) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province, into the sky. By last Friday, the astronauts said they felt "physically sound (健康的)", to the joy of the scientists on the ground.

　　In the spaceship, they had a wide choice of dishes: nearly 80. They also took traditional Chinese medicine, made with more than 10 herbs (药草), to treat space motion (运动) sickness.

　　The astronauts orbited (绕轨道运行) the earth for three days. In a special spacesuit, which weighs 120 kilograms and cost about 30 million yuan, Zhai Zhigang was scheduled to walk in space about 343 kilometers above the earth on September 27.

　　That made China the third country to conduct extra-vehicular (舱外的) activities in space. The other two to have achieved that are the former Soviet Union and the US.

　　The extra-vehicular activities are essential for China''s long-term goal of building a space station by 2020, and possibly launching a manned mission to the moon.

　　"At the Beijing Olympics, China proved it was the best in the world at coming in first. Now the country will show it can also be very happy with bronze (铜牌). Forty-three years after Russian Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside an orbiting spacecraft, China plans to become the third nation after the Soviet Union and the US to carry out its own spacewalk. The feat (壮举) would be both a technological and public relations triumph (胜利)," wrote Time Magazine in the US.

　　高二年级英语阅读文章(二)

　　Journey of brotherhood

　　MOST 23-year-olds have not done enough in life to be worthy of having their own documentary.

　　Most 23-year-olds aren't LeBron James.

　　The NBA superstar, who recently won gold at the Beijing Olympics, has just released More Than a Game. It is a documentary that follows his rise to stardom (明星地位) and how he and four childhood friends overcame long odds to win a national championship in high school.

　　Combining footage (镜头) taken during James' career at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, US, along with one-on-one interviews by writer/director Kris Belman, home videos, and personal family photographs, the film is about much more than basketball. At its core (核心) is a story of friendship, loyalty and love.

　　"We set out with a goal as kids and we wanted to accomplish that someway, somehow by using basketball as a tool, not knowing that it was going to create other opportunities for us," James said. "We didn't know it was going to create a brotherhood and trust. We grew from kids into young men."

　　While James is the star, his former teammates, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Willie McGee and Romeo Travis, play a major role in the film.

　　Their journey began together as 8-year-old boys, winds through years traveling all over America playing in basketball tournaments and finishes in their senior season at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School.

　　At the time, Belman was a college film student. He set out to film James and his friends' season as his final school project, a 10-minute documentary. But after gaining the trust of the players and coach Dru Joyce, Belman spent two months filming and eventually teamed with producer Harvey Mason Jr to the full-length feature.

　　James hopes the film will inspire youngsters (年轻人).

　　"We set out with a goal when we were eight and we accomplished it when we were 18," he said. "It's a great story and I wanted to get it out to kids that have a dream, that they should continue to go after it, believe in it and live it if they want to accomplish something."