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The document is an English test for 10th-grade students focusing on space exploration, specifically the discovery of water on the moon by the Lunar Prospector. It includes various sections such as answering questions, true/false statements, verb forms, and writing prompts related to the topic. The test is structured to assess students' comprehension and writing skills, with a total of 200 points available.

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Test- space

The document is an English test for 10th-grade students focusing on space exploration, specifically the discovery of water on the moon by the Lunar Prospector. It includes various sections such as answering questions, true/false statements, verb forms, and writing prompts related to the topic. The test is structured to assess students' comprehension and writing skills, with a total of 200 points available.

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English Test - 10th Grade

Escola Secundária Carolina Michaelis


English Test - 10th Grade
Space Exploration

Name: _______________________________________________ No: _______ Class: ______

A. Answer the following question in about 25-30 words.


Is finding water in space an important event for mankind? Why? Why not?

ICE ON THE MOON

"Some of you reading this - I guarantee it - are going to live and work on the moon!"
says Alan Binder, NASA's chief investigator of Lunar Prospector, a spacecraft that has been
orbiting the moon since January, 1998.
Thanks to the data Lunar Prospector immediately began to transmit to NASA centers in
5 California and New Mexico, scientists soon discovered an amazing find: stores of water
concealed in craters on the moon's north and south poles!
Some scientists around the world are elated about prospects of water on the moon,
particularly the wealth of information the ice could reveal about the age and formation of the
moon's craters. But many remain skeptical.
10 Of course, the water isn't readily handy in plastic bottles. It's ice, mixed in with lots of
lunar soil. Theoretically, if collected and melted, the water could fill 15,000 Olympic-sized
swimming pools.
But even if you could extract a respectable amount of ice, Binder and others admit that
inventing technology to operate at sub-zero temperatures would be extremely difficult.
15 Another obstacle would be the means and high cost of transporting water from poles to
proposed lunar bases at the equator, thousands of kilometers away.
"The moon would be a great place to learn how to live on another planet, like Mars,"
says Binder. Picture the moon as the coolest science lab in the universe, where you can study
physics, astronomy, human physiology... you name it! In addition, a one-way trip to the moon
20 takes only three days - just in time to shuttle home for the weekend.
Binder predicts that humans may return to the moon within 10 years to sample lunar ice
for themselves. Who knows? Better brush up on your moon walk!

Science World, May 11, 1998

B. 1. Read the following statements and decide whether each is true or false. Quote from the text to support your
answer.
1. The Lunar Prospector detected ice on the moon.
2. All scientists are excited about prospects of water on the moon.
3. The moon's frozen water is easy to extract from the soil.
4. Scientists are aware of the difficulties of extracting and using water from the moon.
2. Here are the answers to some questions. Work out the questions.
a. In California and New Mexico.
b. About the age of moon's craters.
c. 15,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
d. only three days.

C. Insert a reflexive / emphasising pronoun.


1. Senior astronauts wanted equal rights for ________.
2. Kenedy _______ promoted space exploration.
3. You really must refrain ______ from showing your skepticism towards space travel.
4. Christa _______ wanted to take new challenges.
5. We can do some research __________.

D. Fill in the blanks with the correct verb form.


1. If there is water on the moon, it _______ (be) possible to build a colony in the 21st century.
2. The astronauts ______ (make) their own breathing oxygen if the moon had water.
3. They ___________ (launch) a new spacecraft if they hadn't faced a few problems.
4. Photographs ______ (be) received by scientists if the expedition is successful.
5. Space probes __________ (take) advantage of gravity if there hadn't been a malfunction.

E. Rewrite the following sentences.


1. You could extract a respectable amount of ice.
A respectable ________________________________________________________.
2. A spacecraft has orbited the moon.
The moon ___________________________________________________________.

F. Choose one of the following topics and write 50-80 words on it.
1. What might humans hope to learn about themselves and their universe in a new "age of
exploration" in space? Write a short story set in the year 2010 describing the knowledge
humans have attained as a result of space exploration.

2. Imagine you are a journalist. You have to interview Alan Binder, NASA's chief
investigator of Lunar Prospector.What questions would you like to ask him? Write down
the dialogue.

Test Specification
A...............……..= 25
B.1...............(7x4)=28
2................ .(9x4)=36
C.................(3x5)=15
D.............. ..(5x6)= 30
E............. ...(2x5)= 10
F.........................= 56
TOTAL ..............=200 points

Teresa Pinto de Almeida

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