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1. Circle the correct words.

I believe we'll never find life on other planets (1) in case / since / unless we start serious
space exploration. (2) As long as / Provided that / Unless we stay comfortably on our
planet, we won't discover any extraterrestrial life. I have a plan that will take us to the stars
and, (3) as long as / provided that / unless I get public funding, Pluto (4) will be visited /
will visit / will visited by a space probe by the end of the next decade. It (5) will be sent /
will send / will sent from a base that we (6) will be built / will build / will built on Mars
within this decade. A mission to Pluto (7) could be helped / could help / could helped us
start our travels to the stars. (8) In case / Since / Unless public funding isn't available,
money (9) will be found / will find / will found in the private sector (10) in case / provided
that / since we can't do this alone.
Grammar B
2. Complete the sentences with the following words. Some of the words are extra.
as long as, in case, provided that, since, unless, will be built, will build, will colonize, will
be colonized, will construct, will be constructed, will do, will be done, will be established,
will establish

Do you think people (1) __________________________ other planets? Well, I do, (2)
__________________________ world governments and private investors support the
endeavor. In my dreams, I see what our future could be. A lunar base (3)
__________________________ within a few years (4) __________________________ we
need a place with lighter gravity than that on Earth. A secondary base (5)
__________________________ on Mars. Mining (6) __________________________
from there, (7) __________________________ some technical issues are solved. (8)
__________________________ we can't use Mars, we (9) __________________________
orbiting bases around Jupiter and Saturn (10) __________________________ there are
problems we can't foresee today.

3. Complete the sentences with the following words.


crew, dock, float, impatient, impractical, improbable, incapable, inconceivable, orbits,
shuttle

Although it is (1) __________________________ that man will walk on the moon anytime
soon, we are all (2) __________________________ to go. It is (3)
__________________________ to us that we won't walk on the moon in our lifetime. We
can see ourselves traveling in a space (4) __________________________ to the
International Space Station that (5) __________________________ the Earth. The station
(6) __________________________will meet us when we (7)
__________________________. Since it is (8) __________________________ to have
artificial gravity, everyone will (9) __________________________ around. We'll be (10)
__________________________ of walking normally.

Vocabulary B
4. Circle the correct words.
Finally our spaceship was (1) docking / orbiting / traveling around the distant planet. We
were (2) floating / flying / swimming around because Mac was (3) incapable / impatient /
insufficient of fixing the artificial (4) grave / gravity / gravid. I was enjoying looking out at
the (5) finity / infinite / infinitely number of stars visible from my window. I was (6)
impatient / impractical / patient to set my foot down on the new planet, but I knew it was
(7) impossible / improbable / probable that it wouldn't be for another few weeks. The rest
of the (8) crew / members / shuttle were very busy analyzing the results from the probes we
sent down. It wasn't (9) inconceivable / impractical / insufficient that they would find life.
The ship shook when another probe (10) docked / floated / orbited with the spaceship.

5. Read the text and circle T (true) or F (false).


We had been traveling for months when we finally reached our goalJupiter. We are
scheduled to spend six months orbiting the planet while we do scientific experiments to
determine the possibility of forming orbiting mining operations on Jupiter's moons.

The first probe to the surface will be released early tomorrow morning. It will take it a day
to slowly enter the planet's atmosphere. It is designed to take measurements of precious
gases. A shuttle is leaving in a few minutes for Io, the largest of Jupiter's moons. It has a lot
of volcanoes, so the crew on this mission have to be very careful.
I'm scheduled to travel to Europa next week. I'm a biologist and I will be looking for life.
Europa is the only moon which has water. It has an icy crust, and it is suspected that there
might be an ocean of water below it. There's more water on Europa than on Earth. It is
thought there might be life in that cold ocean.

1 The spaceship has a human crew.

2 They are investigating the possibility of

4 Europa is the largest of Jupiter's moons.

5 There might be life on Europa.

mining on Jupiter.
3 The probe that will go into Jupiter is
investigating gases.

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