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Nhi: Space offers unique pleasures including the view and zero gravity activities. Nhi said __________________________________________________________
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Duong: Space travel is risky and expensive.
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Mai asked _______________________________________________________
4. Nick: When did the flyby take place?
Nick asked _______________________________________________________
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Mi: What do scientists discover from the photos of Saturn's moon - Enceladus? Mi asked ________________________________________________________
C. SPEAKING
I)-Fill in each blank with the correct statement to complete the conversation between Dr. Nelson and Duong about accommodation outside the Earth.
A. With solar power, we might produce oxygen and water from the gases in the upper atmosphere of Venus. But we have to bring food from the Earth for the first period.
B. The surface temperature is nearly 500 degrees centigrade, and the pressure is 92 times more than that of the Earth. Actually, the spaceship is kept 50 kilometers above the surface of Venus, and we will not have any of these problems.
C. You know, scientists are looking for places where we can live outside the Earth.
lll)-Read the following passages, and decide if the sentences are T (True) or F (False). Correct the false ones.
Passage 1
Robert Hammond was driving home one night with his wife Judy when their car suddenly stopped. He turned the key but the car did not start. Judy looked at her watch. It was one minute before midnight and there were no other cars on the road. They were discussing what to do when they saw a bright light in the sky.
Robert opened the car door. Judy told him to stay in the car but he didn’t listen. She watched her husband walk towards the light. He walked until he was under the light and stopped. Then suddenly the light disappeared and it was dark. It was also silent again. At the same time, the car started again. Judy looked at her watch again. It was still one minute to midnight. She waited for her husband but he didn’t return. She called his name but there was no reply. Robert Hammond disappeared and his wife Judy never saw him again.
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Mary was studying late one night for her final exams when she fell asleep in front of her computer. She started to have a really strange dream. She was wearing a white dress and she was lying on a bed. She tried to move but she couldn't. She looked up and saw two alien faces looking at her. They had big grey heads with large black eyes.
Then another alien arrived. He was carrying a large machine. He put something over her mouth. When Mary woke up, she was not in front of her computer. She was in her bed. Then she got up and looked into the mirror. Her two front teeth were missing.
1. Robert and Judy were on a busy road. T/F _________________________
2. They saw a bright white light in the night sky. T/F _________________________
3. Robert got out of the car. T/F _________________________
4. Robert's encounter lasted for twenty minutes. T/F _________________________
5. Mary went to bed because she was tired. T/F _________________________
6. In her dream, she saw three aliens. T/F _________________________
7. The aliens put something over her hand. T/F _________________________
8. Her mother woke her up the next morning. T/F _________________________
IV)-Read the story, and match the sentence halves. Write the answer in each blank.
A New Home
The president of the planet Trojan was standing in front of her palace. She spoke to all the people. “People of Trojan!” she said. “I have some bad news. Another planet is coming towards use. One hundred years from now, the other planet is going to hit us and destroy us. There is nothing we can do.”
The Trojan people were very frightened. The president said more.
“Don’t worry. We have a plan. We’re going to build spaceships - the biggest spaceships in the history of universe. Each spaceship is going to carry 10,000 people - and we are going to build 20,000 spaceships! In this way, we can take every Trojan man, woman, and child to a safe place - before the other planet hits us”
The people asked, “Where? Where is this safe place?"
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The president said, “There is another planet, very far from here. It is a planet where Trojan people can live. The air is like our air; the water is like our water, and there is room for us. The name of this planet is Earth!”
The next day, the people of Trojan started to build the spaceships. It took them a very long time - more than fifteen years - to build the first 1,000 spaceships. And after fifty years, 5,000 spaceships were ready. And finally, all the 20,000 spaceships were ready. The spaceships were round, like huge yellow footballs - so big that 10,000 Trojans could go inside each one.
Then, one day, the people of Trojan said goodbye to their borne. They got into the spaceships. And, one by one, the spaceships took off. And the Trojans began the journey to their new home.
20 years later, the spaceships landed on the planet Earth.
________ 1.Another planet was going to... A. into each spaceship.
________ 2.The Trojan people planned... B. 20,000 very big spaceships.
________ 3.The Trojan people built... C. hit the planet Trojan.
________ 4.10,000 Trojan people went... D. on the planet Earth.
________ 5.After twenty years, the Trojan people E. to travel to Earth.
landed ...
V)-Read the passage and then decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
The International Space Station - the manned satellite - bus constantly circled the Earth in low orbit up to now. Since the first permanent crew moved in on 2 November 2000, 220 people representing 17 countries have come and gone. Most of those astronauts have been Americans on the space shuttle flights to deliver the equipment, food and other supplies.
Russia has sent the second largest number of people, with Canada and Japan tied for third. At least one American and one Russian have been on board at all times.
The ISS orbits 240 miles above the planet at 17,150 mph and can often be seen by the naked eye. The complex has grown from three to 13 rooms and the current structure has a mass of nearly 450 tons. More than 26,500 meals have been served.
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1,760 experiments carried out and 189 spacewalks undertaken, according to NASA. The
189 spacewalks have been undertaken to build and maintain the space station.
The most important experiment, according to Commander Scott Kelly, was about keeping humans alive in space.
NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, called the 15-year milestone in 2015 “a remarkable moment”. He added, “It has taught us about what's possible when tens of thousands of people across 15 countries work together with the shared goals.”
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The New Horizons - a NASA probe - went past Pluto in summer 2015. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh - an American astronomer - in 1930 as the ninth planet in the solar system. However, in January 19, 2006, Pluto was regarded as a dwarf planet. In the solar system, there are the inner rocky planets, such as the Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury, and the outer gas giants, like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, belong to a third category known as “ice dwarfs". They have solid surfaces but, unlike the other planets, their mass is icy material.
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The probe traveled more than 3.6 billion miles to take the photos. The new image shows a clear view of Pluto's surface, and it is covered with wide smooth areas, and mountains. Huge mountains are made of water ice. Scientists hope that information from the New Horizons will prove that there might be a lot of water on Pluto. Finding water on another world is important because water is considered one of the key materials to life.
Besides Charon, Pluto has four other small moons: Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
The New Horizon's mission makes the United States the first nation to send a space probe to every planet from Mercury to Pluto.
Task 1: Match a word in column A with its definition in column B, writing the answer in each blank.
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l0. Why was the mission to Pluto important to the United States?
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I)-Rewrite the sentences in reported speech.
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“Every weekend, the astronauts can have private video-conferences with their families on the Earth,” Dr. Nelson said.
Dr. Nelson said _________________________________________________________
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“Have the astronauts ever forgotten anything from the Earth?” Nick asked his teacher.
Nick asked his teacher.___________________________________________________
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“The astronauts on the ISS use a 3-D printer on board to print certain objects,” the teacher answered Nick.
The teacher told Nick ___________________________________________________
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4. “Where can we look for life?” Mai asked Dr. Nelson.
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“Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter, has a large salt water ocean,” the teacher said.
The teacher said _______________________________________________________
6. “Docs Mars have ice under its surface?” Mi asked the teacher.
Mi asked the teacher ___________________________________________________
II)-Write meaningful sentences about the appearance of aliens based on the words or phrases given, using “may/might”.
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Aliens/ small creatures/ made of chitin/ an insect skeletal protein.
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They/be short creatures/ thick legs/ support/ their bodies/ against/ strong gravity.
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I)-Choose the word which has a different stress pattern from the others.
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6. An astronaut has to wear a spacesuit ___________it may be very cold in space.
A. so B. but C. because D. because of 7. The UFO landed on a ____________area.
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