II. Grammar

Fill in the gaps in the text with a suitable word derived from the word in brackets.

Neil Armstrong was born on August 5^th' 1930 in Ohio, America, and was the first man to set foot on the moon. His studies at university were (1) (sudden) in­terrupted in 1950 by the Korean War, in which he served as a pilot and was shot down. (2) (consequence) he was awarded three Air Medals. In 1955 he be­came a pilot for NASA, f hang more than 1,100 hours while testing (3) (va ry)

supersonic fighters and planes. A couple of years later, he joined the space programme and, in 1969, blasted off in the rocket, Apollo II, with two other astronauts. Landing on the

moon's (4) (dust) surface, Armstrong uttered those (5)

(forget) words, "That's one step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The astronauts col­lected samples from the Moon and took (6) (number) photographs.

III. Writing

Write a message for the ‘You and your hobby’ notice board. Include the following:

- what your hobby is;

- what you do;

- what you like/don't like about it.

IV. Speaking

Music is a universal language of the planet.

• What styles of music do you know?

• Which of them are you interested in?

• What concert would you like to attend?

Examination Card 16

I. Reading

Read the text given below. For questions (1-5), choose the correct letter (A, B, CorD).

For thousands of years comets have been a mystery to a man. They travel across the sky very fast and have a bright 'tail* of burning' gas. The comet Tempel 1 has an orbit far outside the orbit of the furthest planet in our solar system, Pluto. It has been there for 4.6 billion years, 133 million kilometres from Earth. Last week a little American space­craft crashed into Tempel 1. The spacecraft had a camera and it took a photograph of the comet every minute before it finally crashed into its surface.

The space mission to Tempel 1 cost $335 million and was called Deep Impact. The space­craft was travelling at 37,000 kilometres per hour when it hit the comet and the crash completely destroyed the spacecraft. But before it hit the comet, the spacecraft took some amazing photographs. The last one was a close-up picture which the spacecraft took just 3 seconds before it crashed into the comet.

"Right now we have lost one spacecraft," said a delighted NASA engineer. Deep Impact was like an American Independence Day fireworks display. It took many years to plan and ended in an enormous explosion.

Comets like Halley's Comet which visit the Earth frequently are not so interesting for scientists. But comets like Tempel are so distant that they could hold the secrets of the planets, the Earth's oceans and even of the original organic chemistry from which life developed. "If you are thinking of comets as possible sources of organic material, then you are looking for the organic elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen," said John Zarnecki of the Open University.

Taken from "NASA Gladly Loses a Spacecraft" by Tim Radford, The Guardian Weekly, 2005

1. Why wasn't NASA disappointed after losing a spacecraft?

• A The craft was not very expensive.

• B The craft was very far away from Earth.

• C The craft gave scientists new information.

• D The scientists have many other crafts.

2. The comets near Earth aren't interesting to scientists because they...

A reveal little new information.

B have small tails of burning gas.

C are not very large.

D do not contain carbon.

3. Scientists think that comets may...

• A contain water.

• B hold the key to understanding the origin of all life.

• C never be understood.

• D be fragments of planets from other solar systems.

3. The scientists' mood can be described as...

• A enthusiastic.

• B disappointed.

• C confused.

• D pessimistic.

3. The scientists will study this distant comet by...

• A analyzing contents of the gaseous tail.

• B viewing pictures that the spaceship took before it crashed.

• C sending a new space craft into space.

D studying carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.