托福阅读新闻知识：非洲进军航天业.doc

托福阅读新闻知识：非洲进军航天业 小马过河为大家准备了“托福阅读新闻知识：非洲进军航天业”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 　　Space, the final frontier, and one that African nations have largely left unexplored. But with the emergence of space agencies around the continent, some intrepid space-gazers are studying ways to boldly go where few Africans have gone before. 　　对最后的疆界宇宙的探索，非洲国家大大落后于人。不过，随着非洲大陆上航天机构的纷纷成立，一些勇敢的星际爱好者正在大胆地寻找方法，开拓几乎没有非洲人涉足过的空间。 　　Observers looking at Africa today will see a new reality. 　　这是新的现实。 　　Satellite dishes monitor hundreds of privately owned satellites above Africa in Africa’s largest earth observation center - at the South African National Space Agency. 　　南非国家航天局拥有非洲最大的地球观察中心， 这些卫星天线监督着非洲上空数千颗私人卫星。 　　Managing Director Raoul Hodges said a space agency is a valuable asset -- and that Africa has the means to go into space. But he said such a reality is years off and will take serious planning. 　　董事总经理拉乌尔·霍奇斯说，航天局是一个有价值的资产，非洲有能力进入宇宙。不过他说，要做到这一点，还需要很多年的认真规划。 　　“If you combined resources and you combined efforts, such as the Nigerian effort, such as the Egyptian effort, the Algerian effort, and the South African effort specifically, he explained. Where we have the infrastructure and prior to 1994, when we were able to integrate satellites, yes, the technical knowledge is there, and the capability is there. Is there funding? Yes, there is funding. There are some rich oil nations in Africa..” 　　董事总经理拉乌尔·霍奇斯说;“如果你集中资源和人力，比如尼日利亚、埃及和阿尔及利亚，特别是有基础的南非。1994年前，我们就可以整合卫星了。是，我们有技术，有能力。我们有资金吗?有，有资金，非洲的一些国家有着丰富的石油。” 　　Officials with the African Union said a pan-African space agency can solve some of the continent’s earthly problems. 　　非洲联盟官员阿卜杜勒·阿基姆·艾尔维尔说，一个泛非洲航天局可以解决非洲的基本问题。 　　“It’s one of the most important cross-cutting issues that serves agriculture, serves communication, serves infrastructure, serves [the] border program, also serves demography and movement of people, serves peace and security, said Abdul Hakim Elwaer is with the African Union. It goes into mineral resources and