雅思阅读辅导：火箭的发展过程

　　阅读段落

　　An intellectual breakthrough, brilliant though it may be, does not automatically ensure that the transition is made from theory to practice. Despite the fact that rockets had been used sporadically for several hundred years, they remained a relatively minor artifact of civilization until the twentieth century. Prodigious efforts, accelerated during two world wars, were required before the technology of primitive rocketry could be translated into the reality of sophisticated astronauts. It is strange that the rocket was generally ignored by writers of fiction to transport their heroes to mysterious realms beyond the Earth, even though it had been commonly used in fireworks displays in China since the thirteenth century. The reason is that nobody associated the reaction principle with the idea of travelling through space to a neighboring world.

　　段落大意

　　本段简要介绍了火箭的发展过程与火箭被作家忽视的原因。

　　阅读笔记

　　Development:

　　1. Used sporadically for several hundred years.

　　2. Remained a relatively minor artifact until the 20th century.

　　3. Prodigious efforts were required during two world wars.

　　Reason of ignorance:

　　Nobody associated the reaction principle with the idea of travelling through space to a neighboring world.

　　逻辑关系

　　1. 因果

　　nobody associated the reaction principle with the idea of travelling through space to a neighboring world

　　the rocket was generally ignored by writers of fiction to transport their heroes to mysterious realms beyond the Earth