| 10° the planets Mispae 1.4. Answer these questions. 1 2 3 1.2 | Complete the text below with suitable words from the box. Would you like to travel into space? (Why? / Why not?) What do you imagine it would be like? What problems do you think you would experience in space? astronauts atmosphere commercial _explorers launch outer simulator weightlessness If you have ever dreamed of travelling in space then our (1). s-snnsnee Space travel programme will make that dream a reality. OF course, passengers will need to prepare for this experience. However, unlike the months of training that (2)... . undergo, our passengers will be ready for (3). . within two days. To prepare for a truly out-of-this-world experience, passengers will spend two days in our special training facility. There the passengers will be able to experience zero gravity in a special (4)... i this will allow the passengers to acclimatise. During the flight itself a rocket will propel the spacecraft into suborbital space in excess of 100,000 m above the Earth's (5)..n..:neunns-ane This will alow the passengers to experience ©. - Our space (7) will be able to float around the cabin and view the Earth and (8) space for approximately ten minutes prior to re-entry and Landing, 1.3 | Read the text again and find words that match these definitions, 1 an actual event... 5 drive something forwards 0... go through an experience 6 more than the force or pull from the Earth cum 7 stay up in the air or in water... get used to a change in conditions 8 entering the Earth's atmosphere again 1.4 Complete the sentences with words from the text. You will need to change the form of the words. 52 Some people believe that space e Climbing extremely high mountains is made all the more difficult because of the drop in a. pressure. Spacecrafts need to reach extremely high speeds in order to escape the g....... Last year the astronauts u.. mission. is a waste of money. pull of the Earth, .. Series of mental and physical tests in order to qualify for the This computer program s... conditions. .. extremes of weather so that pilots can experience difficult flyingMithe planets 2.1 © 102 Listen to someone talking about the problems of forming colonies on other planets. Complete the table with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the talk. Reaching for the skies 10 EET 6- Earth is the name of our planet and has a capital letter, but the sun does not. We say the Earth but not eurearth The Earth moves around the sun. We must take core of our planet. NOT Wemust tokecore of ourearth: Planet _ | Physical features Disadvantages Venus |» same size as 1 * has no2. + covered in 3 * constant 4 Mercury | smaller than all other planets except 5 * has greatest range of temperatures of any planet In the 6.snn none Satun | has many 7. 2 0B. ‘= much too hot 2.2 | ©102 Listen again and complete the sentences below. 1 Venus is unusual because it... 2 THe. 3. Mercury has no substantial....... 4 Mercury does not have any water so cannot 5. The Voyager Space eesncnneme 6 THE of Saturn is mainly gas. 2.3 WORD BUILDING Complete the table. ‘Noun Adjective atmosphere cosmic galactic gravitational horizon lunar meteoric sun stellar terrestriol universe Wai The suffix -ic tells us that a word is an adjective. How many adjectives in 2.3 end in -ic? Other common ‘examples are: economic, scenic, tragic. .- in the opposite direction to other planets. of Venus has many craters caused by asteroids. life. has provided us with pictures of Saturn’s moons. 2.4 Complete the sentences with suitable words from the table in 2.3. 1 The moon appears much bigger when it is close to the “ . 2 The North Star is the brightest star in our 3. Many scientists believe that dinosaurs became extinct when a . hit the Earth, 4B cnnnnennnenn @Clipse occurs when the moon is hidden by the sun. 5 Many people wonder if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the 6 The teacher told us to draw a sennee HN across the page. 7 The most successful products in the world are those that have a appeal. 8 sue @n@rRY iS becoming more common nowadays. 5310 Reaching for the skies 4 OF nea this news report and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Give @ reason for each answer using one of the underlined words in the text. Then check the meaning of any of the underlined words you don’t know and write them in your notebook. In May 1973, the USA launched its first manned space station. The station, called Skylab, managed to carry three different crews of astronauts over a nine-month period, in spite of the fact that it lost a meteor shield on launch. In February 1974, the final crew returned to Earth and, for the next five and a half years, the Skylab continued to orbit the Earth, unmanned and unused. Its low orbit gradually pulled the 77-tonne Skylab down towards the Earth making a crash landing inevitable and causing a great deal of concern around the world. On 11 July 1979 the Skylab eventually crashed into the southern ocean off Esperance, Australia. Fortunately the debris fell in mostly uninhabited areas and locals scrambled to collect a souvenir. A17 year-old from Esperance flew to America to claim a $10,000 reward for being the first to deliver a piece of the station to @ newspaper. The local council of Esperance issued the USA with a $400 fine for littering, It has never been paid. There are currently approximately 8,000 pieces of space junk floating above our heads thanks to the satellites, space shuttles and space stations out there. One example is a screwdriver lost during a space shuttle mission in 1985 which has never been recovered. ‘Statements True/False | Reason 1 In late 1974 there were people on board the space station. Itwas 2 The Skylab may have floated in space for ever. on [Acrash was 3 Very few people lived in the area where it landed. The area was 4 Complete the text using suitable words from this unit. ‘Space belongs to whoever gets there first.’ Do you agree with this statement? Most of (1) p. Earch has already been mapped and explored, so i is not surprising that explorers should turn theie attention co other parts of the (2) u «The planets in our (3) s s. have become the next frontier to be conquered. ‘We all remember the so-called (4) s. race of the 1960s when the US and USSR were each determined to be the first co (5) ‘on the moon. However, I do not believe thar planting a flag on the moon gives, anyone the right to claim it as theirs. ‘With the increasing use of (6) s.. to monitor activities here on Earth, as well as the very real prospect of space tourism, now is a good time co ask who owns or, more importantly, who governs the vast area of space above us? In the relatively short time that man has been travelling in space we have already left sufficient (7) d. behind to show that we are as careless in our space travels as on Earth. The broken shuttle parts have simply been le 10 (8) Fossuesnsnsnnone in the atmosphere and cause a very real threat ro everyone here on Earth. Clearly space belongs to all of us. Although there is an international (9) s.. s this is currently only involved in research. I think we need to act quickly to establish a set of international laws that govern (10) On nnninnneee SPACE, PRONUNCIATION ®10b Each of the following words has a weak sound (0) or schwa, e.g. about. Underline the schwa in each word, then listen and check your answers. Practise saying the words. There may be more than one schwa in each word or phrase. astronaut atmosphere commercial explorer exploration galaxy horizon horizontal outer satellite solar system sustain universal 54Test practice Listening Section 3 @i0¢ Questions 1-4 Choose the correct answer A, B or C Reaching for the skies 10 Ua Read through all of the information on the question paper before you start to listen. Jor underline the most important words. Use the questions to help you follow the conversation. 1 According to John, what is the main advantage of space exploration? A To supply resources for use on Earth. B To find out more about the origins of our planet © Toestablish a colony for humans if Earth becomes uninhabitable. 2 According to the speakers, why can't robots be sent into space instead of humans? A. They cannot operate for long enough. B They are too expensive to build, © They are too reliant on humans. 3 What are we told about the space technology currently used? A. tcan be unreliable, B itis based on old technology. © tis becoming cheaper to produce. 4 What is the biggest problem in sending robots to Mars? A the distance B the atmosphere © the extreme temperatures Questions 5-10 Who expresses the following opinions? A John B Susan © Both John and Susan 5 We should plan a trip to Mars even though it may not happen soon. ... 6 We may eventually colonise Mars. 7 The soil on Mars is highly toxic. 8 The soil on Mars contains materials we could use. .. 9 Spaceships cannot be totally protected from radiation. .... 10 _ tis possible that humans could form a base on Mars. .. 55