UNIT 6 The admirableThere are pioneer souls that blaze their paths where highways never ran.在那沒(méi)有大道可通的地方,先驅(qū)者開(kāi)辟了他們的道路。—Sam FossWe always like those who admire us;we do not always like those whom we admire.我們總是喜歡崇敬我們的人,但并不永遠(yuǎn)喜歡我們所崇敬的人。—duc de La RochefoucauldMany of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.很多人的失敗,是因?yàn)樗麄儾恢浪麄兎艞墪r(shí),距離成功是多么地近。—Thomas EdisonWe do not admire the man of timid(膽怯的) peace.We admire the man who embodies victorious efforts,the man who never wrongs his neighbor,who is prompt to help a friend,but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.It is hard to fail,but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.In this life we get nothing save by effort.Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.A man can be free from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purpose.Qian Xuesen was a rocket scientist.He was famous all over the world as the father of China's space technology.He was born in 1911.On October 31,2009,he passed away peacefully.Qian Xuesen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1934.In 1935,he went to the United States for further study.In 1950,he heard that the new China had been founded,he began to try his best to go back to his motherland.Since 1958,Dr.Qian had devoted all hislife to China's aerospace science and technology and made great achievements.He set up China's first missile-and-rocket-research institute (導(dǎo)彈、火箭研究機(jī)構(gòu)),which later helped start China's space program.He retired in 1991,the year before China's manned space program (載人航天計(jì)劃) was started.His research formed the basis (基礎(chǔ)) of the Long March CZ-2F rocket that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit in 2003.[探索發(fā)現(xiàn)]1.Find out how old when Qian Xuesen passed away?98.2.Find out when China started manned space program.In 1992.