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Reading II Read the text and questions below. For each question mark the correct letter: A, B, C, or D
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Read the text and questions below. For each question mark the correct letter: A, B, C, or D. Is a huge asteroid going to hit the Earth in February 2019? Probably not, according to scientists but it’s going to be close. The asteroid was discovered in July 2002. Since then, astronomers have been working hard to calculate its exact path. If it collides with Earth, it will almost certainly destroy an area the size of Europe and cause global climate changes. But before you start panicking, we’ll have plenty of time to prepare for the collision and prevent it from happening. Unlike in the movies, though, this probably won’t be done by destroying it with nuclear weapons. There will be two simpler options. The first will involve landing a small rocket on the asteroid and “driving” it slightly off course so it misses the Earth. The second option will be to use “a solar sail”, which is a bit like the sail on a ship, to change the asteroid’s course. This is how scientific progress will help the mankind to survive. What is the main purpose in writing the text? to tell readers about the nature and origin of asteroids to describe ways of studying asteroids to explain how modern technologies can protect us from “outer space invaders” to claim that nuclear weapons can completely destroy an asteroid of any size Since the asteroid was discovered astronomers have got sure that it’s going to collide with the Earth it has started to influence the Earth’s climate scientists have started panicking astronomers have calculated that there is a possibility of its colliding with the Earth The author believes that the destruction of the asteroid can’t be done with nuclear weapons we have enough time to prevent the collision the chance that the collision will happen is very low people are fond of movies about natural disasters The author claims that there is at least a couple of possible ways of changing the asteroid’s orbit that a small rocket will considerably change the asteroid’s orbit that the form of “a solar sail” doesn’t look like a sail on a ship we need to build a specially designed rocket for landing it on the asteroid Choose the best title for the text Danger from outer space The rocket race Dangerous profession Importance of investigating space жүктеу/скачать 32,03 Kb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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